Ethics, Professional Skills and Practice Management for Personal Injury Lawyers
Tick those ethic, professional skills and practice management boxes by attending this seminar which included presentations crafted specially to enhance your personal injury practice. Gain practical guidance on ethics in mediation, while also gaining tips and insightful guidance on managing the expectations of the injured client 233W08
Description
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 program is based on WA legislation
Chair: Phil Gleeson, Director, Percy Kakulas Gleeson; Leading Work Injury Compensation Lawyers (Plaintiff), Doyles Guide 2022
Ethics & Professional Responsibility
2.00pm to 3.00pm Efficacy and Ethics in Mediation Practice
- Importance of mediation to the administration of justice
- What are the respective roles and responsibilities of the mediator and lawyers
- Where do ethics come in?
- Is there a tension between ethics and efficacy in mediation practice?
Presented by Brenda McGivern, Principal Registrar, District Court of WA
Practice Management & Business Skills
3.00pm to 4.00pm Common Challenges of Personal Injury Practice
A personal injury lawyer needs to manage multiple moving parts to ensure their practice doesn’t fall off the rails. This presentation will consider some of the many challenges to effective risk management every personal injury practitioner navigates.
- Legislative change
- Ethical obligations
- Disclosure requirements
- Communications with other parties
- Objects of the legislation
- Different legislative regimes
- Preparing for compulsory conference
- Trial preparation
Presented by Chris Rimmer, Partner, Sparke Helmore; Leading Compulsory Third Party Insurance Lawyers (Defendant) and Public & Product Liability Lawyers (Defendant) Doyles Guide, 2022
4.00pm to 4.15pm Afternoon Tea
Professional Skills
4.00pm to 5.00pm Managing the Expectations of the Injured Client
- Understanding the psychology and expectations of the client
- Managing client expectations based on ‘likely’ outcomes
- Suggested processes to be followed
Presented by Greg Pynt, Barrister, Leading Insurance & Personal Injury Law Barristers Doyles Guide, 2022
Presenters
Phil Gleeson
Phil Gleeson is a founding Director of Percy Kakulas Gleeson. Phil helps people with compensation claims if they have been injured at work, in a motor vehicle accident, through medical malpractice or asbestos exposure, as a result of a faulty product, if someone else was to blame for an accident on public or private property, or if they need to make a claim against their superannuation or insurance policy. He is listed by the prestigious Doyles Guide as a leading lawyer for work injury compensation nationally as well as in WA, and for medical negligence, motor vehicle accident and public liability compensation in WA.
Brenda McGivern
Brenda McGivern is the Principal Registrar of the District Court of WA. She is an accredited mediator and a Vincent Fairfax Fellow, having graduated in with a Fellowship in Ethical Leadership in 2021. She serves on the council of the Australasian Institute of Judicial Administration (AJJA) and chairs the Paediatric Clinical Ethics Service for the Child and Adolescent Health Service. Immediately prior to her appointment with the District Court, Dr McGivern was a Member at the State Administrative Tribunal, working principally in the Civil and Commercial and Human Rights steams of the Tribunal. Prior her appointment with the Tribunal, she held an academic appointment with UWA whilst also practising as a lawyer, principally in the areas of professional indemnity insurance and health law.
Chris Rimmer
Chris Rimmer is a Partner at Sparke Helmore. He completed his law degree at the University of Western Australia in 1994 and was admitted as a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Western Australia in 1996 and admitted to the High Court of Australia in 2001. Chris commenced employment as an articled clerk with Jackson McDonald in 1995 and was admitted to the partnership of that firm in 2002. Chris is a founding partner of Jarman McKenna which commenced in 2003. Chris has practised insurance law and provided advice to insurers and their insureds for approximately 20 years and his areas of practice include workers' compensation, public liability, motor vehicle, professional indemnity and product liability as well as providing pre-contractual advice to insurance brokers and their clients pertaining to insurance and indemnity risks. Chris regularly appears as Counsel in the Arbitration Service, the District Court and in the Court of Appeal.
Greg Pynt
Greg Pynt graduated from the University of Western Australia with a Bachelor of Laws in 1977 and moved to London in 1981 where he worked for Willis Faber & Dumas, Insurance Brokers. Between 1981 and 1983, Greg worked in the Litigation Department of Clifford-Turner (now known as Clifford Chance) in London. He then returned to Perth and in 1987 became a partner in Mallesons Stephen Jaques (now King & Wood Mallesons). Greg left Mallesons Stephen Jaques in April 1996 to set up Pynt + Partners. He left Pynt + Partners in October 2012. Greg was a Senior Claims Solicitor at Law Mutual (WA) between December 2012 and May 2013 and joined Francis Burt Chambers as a barrister in July 2013. Greg won the Australian Insurance Law Association Insurance Prize in 2000 and is an AILA Honorary Life Member. He is a Visiting Fellow at the University of Western Australia where he has co-ordinated and lectured in insurance law in the Faculty of Law at undergraduate and postgraduate level since 1991. The 3rd edition of his book 'Australian Insurance Law: A First Reference' was published in November 2014. Greg is also the General Editor of the Insurance Law Journal, published by LexisNexis. When he is at home, Greg is a supporter of the Mighty Blues.
Venue
Parmelia Hilton
Level 1, Meeting Room, 14 Mill Street
Perth 6000
WA
Australia
Directions
Nearby Public Transport:
Train Stations - The Esplanade Station
Bus Interchange - St Georges Terrace Cloisters Green
Parking information
Parmilia Hilton - Valet Parking only - Click here to view rates.
Convention Centre - 100 metres from Parmelia Hilton. Click here to view rates.