Ethics, Professional Skills and Practice Management For All Lawyers
More sensitivity and awareness of the person sitting opposite you is essential. Lawyers can have the same facts but feel very differently about them, both on an emotional and intellectual level. It is how we both understand and take steps to deal with this disparity that can make the difference between a successful or unsuccessful lawyer. Join us for this unique afternoon to help you thrive and survive in the 21st century. WEB233N36Z
Description
Attend and earn 3 CPD units including:
1 unit in Ethics & Professional Responsibility
1 unit in Practice Management & Business Skills
1 unit in Professional Skills
This program is based on NSW legislation
Chair: Luke Geary, Partner, NFPs, Human Rights & Social Impact, Mills Oakley
2.00pm 2.05pm Opening Comments from the Chair
Professional Skills
2.05pm to 3.05pm Beyond Bias: Cultural Competence as a Lawyer
Join Kees and Joost who have over 23 years of expertise in Intercultural Learning & Development. Will help you to build both cultural competence and cultural intelligence to improve your intercultural interactions and ultimately transform diversity into opportunity.
Presented by Joost Thissen Founding Partners and Interculturalists, Culture Resource Centre
Practice Management & Business Skills
3.10pm to 4.10pm Developing Resilience in the Workplace
- What is resilience?
- How resilient are you
- How resilience can help and hinder you at work
- How to develop your resilience
Presenter: Christa Ludlow, Director, Weir Consulting
Ethics & Professional Responsibility
4.15pm to 5.15pm Your Ethical Obligation When Communicating Through an Interpreter About Legally Sensitive Material
This important interactive session will discuss:
- Confidentiality
- Professional Conduct
- Integrity
- Impartiality
- Accurate representation
Delegates are encouraged to submit their questions or anecdotes ahead of time
Presented by J Angelo Berbotto, Lawyer and Translator at Amicus Curiae Legal Translations and Silvia Martinez, Freelance NAATI-certified Legal Interpreter and Translator ENG SPA at Convivence Interpreting and Translation
Presenters
Luke Geary
Luke is a Partner in the Mills Oakley Not-For-Profit & Social Enterprise team in Brisbane and has extensive experience in the Not-For-Profit sector. Luke has a particular expertise assisting institutions in responding to claims of child sexual abuse under a restorative justice framework and in accordance with best practice principles identified by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. In this regard, Luke appeared as a legal advisor in a number of public hearings before the Royal Commission, he participated in many of the Royal Commission’s roundtables (both public and private) for the development of policy positions and has appeared before the Australian Senate Committee and worked with the Commonwealth Redress Taskforce in its design of the National Redress Bill (which is anticipated to provide assistance in justice outcomes for approximately 60,000 Australians). Luke is regularly briefed by major institutions in the most sensitive and significant common law abuse claims and assists in their delicate resolution in a trauma-informed way. Additionally, Luke acts for survivors of abuse in claims against State government institutions, assisting them to obtain either common law or redress justice outcomes compassionately and giving them assistance in finding healing in their lives.
Christa Ludlow
Christa is a lawyer, workplace investigator, mediator and coach with Weir Consulting (National). She held the role of Assistant Crown Solicitor, Employment Law, at the NSW Crown Solicitor’s Office from 2006 to 2013, managing a team providing legal services to the NSW Government. She was a part-time Senior Member with the Civil and Administrative Tribunal 2016-2021. Christa has a Master of Science degree in Coaching Psychology from the University of Sydney and is interested in the application of positive psychology in the workplace. She has coached lawyers and other professionals to help achieve workplace, wellbeing and leadership goals.
J Angelo Berbotto
Solicitor and translator since 2005, Angelo has worked in Australia and England. He is a NAATI certified translator English into Spanish and French & Spanish into English. He also holds the UK Chartered Institute of Linguists’ Diploma in Public Service Interpreting (Legal strand, 2006). After several years working in public law, Angelo served as the Attorney-General of the British Overseas Territory of St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha from 2016 to 2018. He currently divides his time in private practice and translating. His other languages are Italian and Portuguese.
Sylvia Martinez
Silvia is a NAATI Certified Specialist Legal Interpreter and Certified Interpreter and Translator (Spanish<>English), concentrating her freelance practice in conference and legal interpreting. She has assisted in research which contributed to the establishment of the JCDI’s Recommended National Standards for Working with Interpreters in Courts and Tribunals, and regularly trains interpreters entering the legal system. She is engaged to provide interpreting services in the NSW criminal jurisdiction through Multicultural NSW, and in other jurisdictions where private clients may require it.
Joost Thissen
Joost Thissen is founder and partner of the Culture Resource Centre, based in Sydney, Australia. She operates throughout Australia and the Asian region. Her area of expertise includes developing Cultural Competence, organisational behaviour, and realigning corporate culture with the strategic business needs during ongoing globalisation and change. She designs, develops and facilitates global leadership programs, intercultural management workshops, and expatriate transitioning. Joost, who is originally from the Netherlands and fluent in both Dutch and English- studied at the University of Amsterdam (the Netherlands). She holds both a bachelor degree in Marketing & Management and a master degree in Business Sociology. Joost brings over 24 years' experience in dealing with different national and organisational cultures to the practice.