Ethics, Professional Skills and Practice Management For the Modern Lawyer
We live in a digital world where technology both aids and hinders the role of the future lawyer. Embracing new technology is no longer optional and professional conduct rules require lawyers to use technology competently. Plus, being able to protect the firm and clients from technology based risks is now imperative. This is a must attend program for the modern lawyer all while gaining your core CPD units. WEB233N17Z
Description
Attend and earn 3 CPD units including:
1 unit in Professional Skills
1 unit in Practice Management & Business Skills
1 unit in Ethics and Professional Responsibility
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
Chair: Katherine Hawes, Principal Solicitor, Digital Age Lawyers
Professional skills
2.00pm to 3.00pm Digital evidence do’s and don’ts
- How the courts treat digital evidence: recent cases
- Latest developments on crypto currency, NFTs, Web 3.0 and Artificial Intelligence
- Admissibility and authentication of digital evidence: what, when, how, where, who
- Jurisdictional issues
Presented by Dr Allison Stanfield, Solicitor Director, Lantern Legal
Practice Management & Business Skills
3.00pm to 4.00pm Optus Data Breach: Lessons Learnt and How to Avoid
- Summary of the legal issues faced by Optus after their data breach.
- Costs and other damage arising from a data breach.
- Increasing consequences for privacy breaches signalled by regulators and Attorney General.
- Lessons learnt and how to avoid:
- Thinking about collection and use of data from an ethical perspective, with corporations as custodians of the personal information of their customers
- Privacy impact assessment of all changes to business or IT systems
- Security measures must be constantly tested and assessed
- Lifecycle management for data containing personal information, by design, in all systems
Presented by Mark Vincent Principal, Spruson & Ferguson Lawyers
4.00pm to 4.15pm Afternoon Tea
Ethics and Professional Responsibility
4.15pm to 5.15pm ‘Be it ever so ethical, there's no place like home’ - the professional conduct consequences arising from remote working?
- The Australian Solicitors Conduct Rules and remote work
- Confidentiality implications of remote work
- Supervision obligations of remote work
- Professional conduct “in Court” when the Bar table is actually your dining table
Presented by Angus Macinnis, Director of Dispute Resolution, StevensVuaran Lawyers
Presenters
Dr Allison Stanfield
Dr Allison Stanfield is a lawyer specialising in cyber, privacy and business compliance. Allison is in private practice and is also Chief Legal & Compliance Officer at EDT, a global software company, Allison is responsible for cyber security compliance, privacy and negotiating high value contracts. Given her background, Allison also works with the team on new innovations, including more recently the ingestion of evidence resulting from investigations into crypto asset infractions. Previously, Allison worked in mid and top tier law firms and worked as a court registrar before setting up e.law, a specialist e.evidence company, and which ran Australia’s first e.hearing and won an award for innovation. Allison has a PhD in electronic evidence, speaks regularly on the topic of electronic evidence and is a co-author of a chapter in the Fifth Edition of ‘Electronic Evidence and Electronic Signatures’, edited by Mason and Seng, 2021 and is also co-editor of Digital Evidence and Electronic Signature Law Review.
Katherine Hawes
Katherine Hawes completed a Bachelor of Communications prior to reading law. While working at Clayton Utz, Katherine developed her Commercial Law experience, then registered as a Barrister. Along with her two undergraduate degrees Katherine has a Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management and a Masters of Adult Education and a Masters of Marine Law. Katherine spent her years after Clayton Utz in Legal Aid. Katherine’s interest in Social Media Communications led her to open Digital Age Lawyers (DAL) in 2015, having successfully set up Aquarius Lawyers in 2013, around her other passion – ‘the blue space’. As the Principal Solicitor at DAL, Katherine has over 20 years commercial law experience and applies that experience to her own business, which she leads within a virtual business model. That virtual business model emphasises a high standard of service through the use of e-commerce that comes with clearly articulated processes, documentation and systems compliance. This approach has been refined to ensure that customers understand the service they will receive, their responsibilities and that access to a legal service remains affordable.
Mark Vincent
Mark is a Principal at Spruson & Ferguson Lawyers with more than three decades of experience in technology and intellectual property law. Mark litigates intellectual disputes and his advice on licensing, commercialisation, data protection, intellectual property law and strategy also provides clients with clarity and direction, often in complex areas of both law and technology. Mark advises clients on strategies to manage, commercialise and protect data assets. Mark’s expertise in the area of technology based commercial agreements, cloud computing and data protection is highly sought after by clients.
Angus Macinnis
Angus Macinnis has a broad commercial practice with a focus on dispute resolution, and in particular, on employment and work health and safety law, and intellectual property law. He advises employers and employees on all aspects of employment law, from drafting contracts and employment policies, to advising on employment related disputes, to dealing with employment and safety regulators. He has a particular interest in the employment law aspects of social media use and has published in this area in publications including the Law Society Journal, The New Lawyer, and the Internet Law Bulletin.