In-House Counsel Conference
Insulate yourself & your organisation from today’s emerging risks by gaining strategies to help you navigate the latest legal & commercial perils facing in-house counsel. Discover how to solidify your compliance system and how to effectively with regulators. Get the latest in employment, competition and consumer law. Examine the impact of ESG and your responsibility as counsel. Get expert tips on leveraging the latest technologies and preparing your organisation in the event of a ransomware attack. 233Q13
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Description
Attend and earn 7 CPD units including:
4 units in Legal Knowledge
1 unit in Practical Legal Ethics
1 unit in Practice Management & Business Skills
1 unit in Professional Skills
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
Session 1
Crucial Updates and Strategies for In-House Counsel
Chair: Kiri Parr, Director, Kiri Parr Consulting
9.00am to 10.00am Strengthening Your Organisation’s Legal Compliance Regime
- Identifying potential compliance risks
- Role of the in-house lawyer
- Expectations of the Board and CEO
- Expectations of the Courts
- Keeping abreast of the law and communicating changes
- Addressing possible pitfalls in compliance
- Advisor or Enforcer?
- Escalating issues without compromising internal relationships
- Tailoring compliance training for your organisation
Presented by Daniel Gosewisch, General Counsel - Commercial and Legal Affairs, The WorkPac Group
10.00am to 11.00am Employment Law Update
- What you need to know about the new Secure Jobs, Better Pay and Respect at Work changes to workplace laws
- Important developments in jurisprudence around casual employment, and employees vs contractors, and how organisations can benefit
- The avenues by which directors, managers and you can be personally liable in employment claims
- Understanding the various dismissal related claims available to employees, knowing how to support management and when to intervene with HR
Presented by Rohen Cullen, Principal, Franklin Athanasellis Cullen
With Materials prepared by Murray Procter, Principal, Franklin Athanasellis Cullen
11.00am to 11.15am Morning Tea
11.15am to 12.15pm Competition and Consumer Law Update for In-House Counsel
- Proposed amendments under Treasury Laws Amendment (More Competition, Better Prices) Bill 2022 (Cth)
- Overview of the ACCC’s compliance and enforcement priorities for 2022/23
- Discussion of recent cases
Presented by Adelaide Hayes, Special Counsel, Cooper Grace Ward Lawyers
12.15pm to 1.15pm Dealing with Regulators: How to do the Best for Your Business
Presented by Anthea Faherty, Principal, McInnesWilson Lawyers
Session 2
Ethics, Professional Skills and Practice Management for In-House Counsel
Chair: Mark Anning, General Counsel and Company Secretary, Ellume
Professional Skills
2.00pm to 3.00pm The Rise of ESG and the Role of In-House Counsel
- What is ESG really?
- How are Australian governments and corporations dealing with ESG generally?
- How does ESG risk intersect with legal risk?
- How do you measure ESG risk and impact?
- How can ESG be implemented in an organisation? Who is responsible? How do you avoid ‘greenwashing’?
- What is your role, as In-House Counsel?
Presented by Rebecca Hoare, Partner, Norton Rose Fulbright Australia
Practical Legal Ethics
3.00pm to 4.00pm Ethical Considerations on the Use of Social Media for In-house Counsel
Most individuals and businesses have one or more social media accounts. For some professions, like lawyers, social media contains inadvertent traps for both individuals and businesses. It's the old adage, just because you can, doesn't mean you should. Explore some of the traps of social media and tips on how to avoid those traps in this presentation, including:
- The shear scope of social media
- Using social media to 'research' people
- Misleading and deceptive conduct
- Inadvertently engaging in legal practice
- Fit and proper behaviour for lawyers
- Confidentiality risks
Presented by Jeanette Jifkins, Principal Lawyer, Onyx Legal
4.00pm to 4.15pm Afternoon Tea
Practice Management & Business Skills
4.15pm to 5.15pm Digital Technologies and In-House Legal Practice
- Challenges and practical approaches to legal technology implementation
- Leveraging tools already in the technology stack
- Tips for capturing and interrogating practice data
- New technologies: some examples
Presented by Patrick Sefton, Special Counsel and Alexandra Vost, Legal Optimisation Manager, MinterEllison
Presenters
Kiri Parr
Kiri is an academic, speaker and independent consultant in the construction industry in Australia. Her work sits at the intersection of construction law, procurement strategy, human behaviour and governance. As well as operating her own consultancy practice, Kiri is a Senior Fellow at the University of Melbourne law school lecturing in the Construction Law Master’s program in two courses “Construction Project Delivery” and “Major Projects – the Legal Interfaces”. In industry Kiri is a member of the FIDIC Contracts Committee and is actively involved locally with Consult Australia, the Dispute Resolution Foundation and the Society of Construction Law Australia. Prior to establishing her own company in 2020, Kiri spent more than 20 years’ as a construction lawyer, initially in private practice and followed by 15 years as the Regional General Counsel for Arup, a large international professional consulting company. During this time, Kiri was involved in numerous large projects in the region including Airport Link, Gold Coast Light Rail and Marina Bay Sands. From 2015 to 2019 Kiri was included in Doyle’s Leading In-House Construction Lawyers in Australia. Kiri was on the board of Consult Australia, the industry body for consultants in the built environment for 6 years, and was President from 2017 to 2019.
Daniel Gosewisch
Daniel Gosewisch has spent 20 years in in-house legal practice, and has worked across the government, resources, retail, and general corporate sectors. He holds degrees in Law and Environmental Science from Griffith University, a Master of Laws from Queensland University of Technology, and is also an experienced Company Secretary with formal corporate governance qualifications. He joined Racing Queensland as Executive General Manager, Legal & Regulatory Services in July 2020 and also acts as Board Secretary. Racing Queensland is the Principal Racing Authority for thoroughbred, harness and greyhound racing in Queensland. Daniel advises on arrangements with wagering operators, broadcasters, racing clubs and contractors, as well as assisting Racing Queensland to fulfil its regulatory functions for the racing industry. From 2015 to June 2020 Daniel was General Counsel of Minor DKL Food Group, the parent company for retail coffee brands with 450 stores worldwide. His prior also include Director, Legal Transactions with Queensland Treasury Corporation, providing advice on government financing, and Vice President, Legal and Company Secretary for Arrow Energy. Daniel has significant experience in advising on long term contracts, mergers & acquisitions, and corporate disputes. He also has a wealth of experience managing a legal function serving multi-site operations and advising across a wide range of legal topics.
Murray Procter
Murray is recognised as one of Queensland's leading employment, industrial relations and safety lawyers. Operating in the field since 1997, Murray has extensive experience advising leading Australian companies and government departments on industrial relations, workplace health and safety and employment law, including enterprise bargaining, individual engagement methods, anti-discrimination, termination of employment and dealing with ill and injured workers. He advises on workplace relations legislation in the private and public sectors, as well as employment contracts, privacy, protection of confidential information and restraint of trade. Other areas of expertise include restructuring and transfer of business issues, and executive remuneration., Murray is an advisor to the Queensland Government as a Board member of Workplace Health and Safety Queensland. He is consistently ranked by the Australian Financial Review's 'Best Lawyers', and by Doyle's Guide to the Australian Legal Profession, as a leading lawyer in the field.
David Grace
As one of the founding partners of Cooper Grace Ward, David brings more than 35 years’ experience in corporate and commercial law and is highly sought after for his expertise. David is a consultant within Cooper Grace Ward’s corporate and commercial workgroup, specialising in company law and practice and in competition and consumer law. His board experience includes service on audit committees of public companies and as a chairman of the operational risk management committee of a public company. He has run two cartel cases in competition law and has been involved extensively in training of organisations in competition and consumer law. He has also advised corporations on a wide range of competition and consumer law issues. David’s commercial approach to legal problem solving and his knowledge of developing risk management systems has, in part, been obtained through his director and board experience and also through his experience advising clients on both occupational health and safety and competition and consumer law compliance programs. These programs have been with listed and unlisted public and proprietary companies, and are designed to create efficiency and effectiveness in the operations of the business. Program outcomes include greater responsibility, accountability and engagement of people in the risk management process with a view to protecting the enterprise, its board and senior management, and employees responsible for overseeing activities regulated by relevant laws. David has been listed by Best Lawyers Australia for Commercial Law (since 2014), Corporate Law (since 2015), Agricultural and Rural Affairs (since 2022), and Corporate and Governance Practice (since 2022).
Adelaide Hayes
Adelaide is a special counsel in the corporate and commercial team with wide ranging experience in transactional and corporate advisory work such as complex mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance advice, shareholder issues and agreements and business sale and share sale transactions. Adelaide also regularly assists clients with matters related to competition and consumer laws and has extensive experience in delivering training to clients on these laws. Adelaide’s expertise also extends to advising on trade mark registration and protection, intellectual property ownership and licensing, technology matters, privacy and the establishment and operation of not-for-profit and charitable organisations (and related tax advice). Australasian Lawyers listed Adelaide as a Rising Star of 2020.
Anthea Faherty
Anthea is a corporate and commercial lawyer. Anthea has been practising for thirteen years, and heads up McInnes Wilson Lawyers’ not for profit, pro bono and corporate social responsibility areas. Anthea’s expertise includes advising clients on corporate and commercial law, mergers and acquisitions, capital raising, taxation controversy matters and corporate governance issues. Anthea has a particular interest in acting for not-for-profits and her experience including advising on matters relating to establishment and structuring and endorsements for not-for-profits, governance, risk management and director liability risks through to advising on and assisting organisations to regulatory investigations and audits. Anthea serves on a number of not-for-profit boards and committees.
Mark Anning
Well-rounded senior lawyer having practised at Partner level in private practice, and “in-house” at CEO direct report level for several ASX listed companies. Highly developed commercial skills, excellent negotiator and drafter, with a high level of business acumen, managerial and interpersonal capability. 25 plus years in legal practice with national law firms (including 10 years with Allens) and several S&P ASX listed companies. Specialise in corporate and commercial law, dispute resolution, risk management, and corporate governance.
Rebecca Hoare
Rebecca Hoare is an environment and planning lawyer based in Brisbane. Winner of the 2008 UDIA Women in Development Excellence Award for her achievement in environmental law, Rebecca's principal areas of expertise are environmental, climate change, native title, cultural heritage and planning law. Her deep interest in environmental law has led her to focus particularly on this area. Rebecca has undertaken complex environmental due diligence for many development, infrastructure and resources and energy clients. This work involves forensic analysis of legislation relevant to the client's business and identifying legal and commercial risks that could arise from the application of such legislation. Rebecca provides high level and detailed advice to clients during the start up phase of their project to ensure that all required environmental planning approvals are identified and obtained and other environment risks are managed. Environmental enforcement agencies are proving themselves more willing to investigate and enforce potential non-compliance. Rebecca has a great deal of experience in assisting clients and their staff during this often difficult time. Her relationships with the enforcement agencies allow her to work constructively with these agencies in the interests of the client. Rebecca has a particular interest in climate change. She assists clients to take advantage of business opportunities which arise out of the latest developments in this area.
Dr Adrian McCullagh
Adrian has degrees in Computer Science and Law as well as a Ph.D. in IT Security. He obtained his Ph.D. from the Information Security Research Centre at the Queensland University of Technology.
He has been practicing in IT law for more than 30 years being one of the pioneer IT lawyers within Australia. He is a member of the Queensland Law Society and a member of the American Bar Association and participate in the Information Security Forum. In 1999 he was the QUT Faculty of Information Technology Alumnus of the year.
Even though in private practice he continues to undertake research matters with academics at the Griffith University and the University of Queensland and has published in a wide variety of academic journals in the USA, UK and Australia. He is a member of the Intellectual Property and Information Technology Committee for the Queensland Law Society.
Adrian’s current research interests include Telecoms security, IT security, IT governance, cryptocurrencies, Blockchain and its uses in supply chain management, Decentralised Autonomous Organisations and Identity Management. He is also investigating the impact of autonomous vehicles and machine learning and their policy considerations.
Patrick Sefton
Patrick is a specialist technology and IP lawyer. Patrick has extensive experience advising on ICT contracts and programs, as well as the protection of innovation and brand. In his specialist areas, he has advised all levels of government, and multi-national and listed entities through to startups. Patrick values collaboration, pursuit of shared goals, commercial resolution of differences, and collective success. He keeps the big picture in his mind, although his role also includes attention to and responsibility for the details. Patricks clients value his responsiveness and commerciality. Patrick has particular interest staying current across novel applications of ICT including, most recently, commercial applications of machine learning and AI, and their associated legal issues. More broadly, Patrick is enthusiastic about the value that technology can unlock when it is appropriately planned and implemented.
Alexandra Vost
Alexandra is a Manager in MinterEllison's Legal Optimisation consultancy practice. With a depth of legal industry experience and a background as a client relationship management professional, she supports in house legal teams to develop creative solutions and transform the way they engage with their broader organisation. She has supported a number of in house legal teams in both the public and private sector to improve their processes, leverage technology to create efficiencies and adopt a client-centric approach to their own service delivery. She is an AgilePM Practitioner, Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt and certified Josef Chatbot Designer and Builder. Alex also has experience in client data management, including through use of platforms such as PowerBI and Tableau.
Venue
Hilton Brisbane
190 Elizabeth St
Brisbane City
Brisbane 4000
QLD
Australia
Directions
Due to one way road systems, please note that car access is via Elizabeth Street only. Please programme 190 Elizabeth Street if using a car navigational device.
Nearby Public Transport:Train Stations - Central Station
Bus Interchange - George Square Bus Station
Parking
Parking is not included in your registration. There is valet parking available for AU$58.00