How to’ Skills for Litigators - Settlement Strategy: When, What and How to Get the Best Deal for Your Client: It’s not Always Financial
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Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD hour in Professional Skills
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
Professional Skills
12.15pm to 1.15pm Settlement Strategy: When, What and How to Get the Best Deal for Your Client: It’s not Always Financial
- Calderbank offers and offers of compromise: when and how to use them
- Settlement rules: ensuring ‘without prejudice’ offers are indeed ‘without prejudice’
- Mediation and other forms of settlement conferences
- Binding and in principle agreements
- How to record the settlement: Deed or no deed?
Presented by Linda Clarke, Barrister, Second Floor Wentworth Chambers
Presenters
Linda Clarke
Linda is a barrister and NMAS mediator practising primarily in the areas of estate litigation (with an emphasis on family provision and probate) and family law. She appears regularly in the Probate and Family Provision Lists. Linda has a particular interest in claims involving the protective jurisdiction, the use and misuse of POA’s and EPOA’s, and the growing area of elder abuse.