CPD Core Competency Areas for In-House Counsel
Issues covered include: Networking, Self promotion, workplace investigation, ethics, whistleblower, mandatory reporting data breaches and privacy.
Description
In a perfect world you wouldn’t have to worry about networking and self-promotion, perfecting your workplace investigation processes, or tiptoeing through ethical minefields. In that idyllic world you’d have a vast team and endless resources to take care of all that. But the reality is that in-house counsel are being asked to do more with less while keeping up with a rapidly evolving legal landscape. We can’t give you that perfect world, but we can give you the information, strategies and tools you need
Attend and earn 3 CPD points including:
1 point in Competency Area 1: Practice Management
1 point in Competency Area 2: Professional Skills
1 point in Competency Area 3: Ethics & Professional Responsibility
This seminar was recorded in WA on 12 March 2019
Chair: Ryan Hartfield, Managing Counsel, PTTEP Australasia
Competency Area 1: Practice Management
2.00pm to 3.00pm: Networking and Self-Promotion for In-House Lawyers
- How self-promotion and networking can make you more effective and successful in your role
- Leveraging relationships so colleagues will buy into a particular course of action that you’re advocating
- Assisting and helping others to build a stronger working relationship so that they’ll support you and your career
- Developing a marketing plan unique to you: identifying your goals, strengths and comfort zone
- Best ways to increase your profile inside (and outside) your organisation
Presented by Catherine McNeilly, Legal Project Manager, INPEX Australia and Jeremy Watkins, The Barefoot Leader, Leadership and Sustainable Performance Mentor, Speaker and Facilitator
Competency Area 2: Professional Skills
3.00pm to 4.00pm: Practical Tips for Running an Effective Workplace Investigation
- Step by step guide to internal investigations
- When to investigate and who should conduct the investigation
- Preserving privilege
- Using technology to improve efficiency and results
- Disclosure and reporting considerations
- Common pitfalls in internal investigations
Presented by Nick Ellery, Partner, Corrs Chambers Westgarth
4.00pm to 4.15pm Afternoon Tea
Competency Area 3: Ethics & Professional Responsibility
4.15pm to 5.15pm: Champion, Guardian, Whistleblower, Lawyer: The Role of In-House Counsel in the Face of Corporate Wrongdoing
- Ethical and other duties of in-house counsel in the context of the #MeToo movement and other corporate wrongdoing
- Should in-house counsel be an ethical conscience for their employer?
- Internal versus external reporting considerations
- Mandatory reporting examples
- Data breaches and privacy issues
- Foreign bribery and related offenses
- Is it ever okay to ‘turn a blind eye’?
- Creating an internal reporting structure and investigation considerations
Presented by John Pease, Group Director Corporate Governance, St John of God Health Care