Ethics, Professional Skills & Practice Management, Over Lunch, Over 3 Weeks
Wanting to square away all your compulsory CPD points before the end of March? Attend these 3 all-encompassing hour-long sessions either online or on demand. They will fit perfectly into your busy schedule as you can have some lunch while you enhance your practice, ensure ethical compliance and polish your professional skills. WEB242N02Z
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 applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
If you register for the full series as a live online product after the date of an individual session, you will be sent the recording for the sessions that have passed. Alternatively, you can register for individual sessions by following the links below.
Session 1
How (Un)Ethical Are You? Overcoming Unconscious Bias
Wednesday, 14 February 2024
How (Un)ethical are you? Gain insight into unconscious bias and its significant influence in the work environment and your client interactions. Learn how to confront these biases in the legal field with practical strategies for change and expand your ethical awareness. WEB242N02AZ
Chair: Justine Anderson, Senior Associate, Carroll & O’Dea Lawyers; President, Women Lawyers Association NSW
Ethics & Professional Responsibility
1.00pm to 2.00pm How (Un)Ethical Are You? Overcoming Unconscious Bias
Join Barrister, Leah Marrone as she discusses what Unconscious Bias is and how it affects us in both our workplaces and our clients in our legal advice and representation.
- Examine how gender pay gap in the profession can be in part overcome by addressing unconscious bias
- Receive practical strategies to help overcome unconscious biases, as Leah draws upon her own experience of utilising these strategies for structural change in the legal profession around sexual harassment and pay gap in particular
- Explore lessons that could be learnt from Leah’s experience of over a decade of advocacy in this area
Presented by Leah Marrone, Barrister, Flinders Chambers; Respect@Work Council member, Law Foundation member, Immediate Past President of Australian Women Lawyers Ltd
Register here for Session 1 only
Session 2
Mediation-Tricks and Traps for Lawyers
Wednesday, 21 February 2024
Master the art of mediation preparation! Join us for expert insights on the Do's and Don'ts that can make or break your mediation outcomes. Acquire crucial negotiation skills to excel in the mediation process.WEB242N02BZ
Chair: John N West KC, Mediator and Arbitrator, 7 Wentworth Selborne; Leading Mediator, Doyle’s Guide 2023
Professional Skills
1.00pm to 2.00pm Mediation-Tricks and Traps for Lawyers
- How best to prepare for mediations including getting the client ready
- Who should be present at the mediation
- Delivering a good opening statement
- Negotiation techniques
- What to expect in a private session
- What is good faith negotiating
- Documenting the Agreement
- The benefits of face to face mediations as opposed to online
Presented by Robert Goldstein, Principal, Rob Goldstein Mediation; Nationally Accredited Mediator’ Accredited Specialist Mediator; Leading Mediator, Doyle’s Guide 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020
Register here for Session 2 only
Session 3
Legal Revolution: What does AI and New Technologies Mean for Your Practice?
Wednesday, 28 February 2024
Recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) have raised concerns regarding their impact on various professional occupations- including lawyers. Despite the doomsday predictions, there are a number of key ways AI and new technologies can be implemented in your practice to excel. Attend and consider the consequences and affordability of these emerging technologies. WEB242N02CZ
Chair: Kieran Smark SC, 153 Phillip; Recommended Technology, Media & Telecommunications Senior Counsel, Doyle’s Guide 2023
Practice Management & Business Skills
1.00pm to 2.00pm Legal Revolution: What does AI and New Technologies Mean for Your Practice?
- The latest developments in AI and the tools available to lawyers
- The risks, challenges and ethics of generative AI adoption
- Principles of AI adoption and developing an AI governance framework
Presented by Paul Gordon, Partner, Wallmans Lawyers
Register here for Session 3 only
Presenters
Justine Anderson
Justine Anderson is a civil litigation lawyer focusing on medical litigation and her practice includes gynaecological and obstetric cases, wrongful birth, cases involving pulmonary embolism, sepsis, adverse surgical outcomes and coronial inquires. Justine is the President of the Women Lawyers Association of NSW. Involved since 2016, by 2019, she led a sub-committee called ‘Welcome to the Law’ aimed at law students and early career lawyers. She ran a suite of seminars on written and oral advocacy, court appearances, emotional resilience, mentoring, networking and business development to name a few. Justine is the outgoing Chair of the Carroll & O’Dea Lawyers Diversity Group which aims to advance diversity and inclusion within the firm. Prior to joining Carroll & O’Dea Lawyers she worked in a number pathology laboratories and private hospitals, providing her with a unique set of problem solving skills when approaching medical and other legal matters.
Leah Marrone
Leah Marrone is a Barrister and has been practising law for over 16 years, in a wide range of areas, including employment, discrimination, work health and safety, criminal law, workers compensation, and public law. She has a particular interest in gender equity and access to justice, and an extensive history in lobbying for law reform in areas which effect women, some examples include lobbying for the decriminalisation of sex work to ensure worker safety and in sexual harassment law, particularly in the lead up to the Respect at Work reforms. Leah is the immediate past President of Australian Women Lawyers Ltd. and past President of the Women Lawyer’s Association of SA Inc. and remains active in that network. Leah is a former member of the Equal Opportunity Committee of the Law Council of Australia where she worked extensively on the issue of addressing sexual harassment at work, and is a former member of the Premier’s Council for Women. Leah was appointed to the Law Foundation in 2022. Leah was also appointed to the Respect at Work Council in 2022. Leah has received the Law Society’s Mary Kitson Award (Gender Equity in Law) and has also been named on the South Australian Women’s Honour Roll. Leah is listed as a Recommended Barrister in Employment and Work Health and Safety by Doyle’s Guide.
John N West KC
John has maintained a wide-ranging practice throughout his career appearing in Courts of first instance, at intermediate and appellate level, and in the High Court of Australia. He has regularly appeared in both State and Federal Courts and tribunals in NSW and across Australia. While the bulk of his work over many years has been in the commercial area, he has also developed a substantial speciality in industrial law and employment law generally. In this latter area he has appeared in many leading cases involving the Australian mining industry, the transport industry, and also in the Waterfront dispute. John appeared in the HIH Royal Commission and also in the Glenbrook Rail Inquiry. His work in commercial arbitration includes the lengthy proceedings consequent upon the closure of the submarine re-fit program at Cockatoo Island Dockyard, and also in international arbitrations. He has also considerable experience in coronial inquiries involving, for example, the aftermath of a collapse in a metalliferous mine. For some 10 years John has practised in commercial mediation both as counsel and more regularly as mediator in a broad range of matters involving such diverse fields as alleged breaches of directors duties, disputes concerning franchise agreement and other contractual disputes of various types including financing contracts, employment contracts, leases, and building and construction contracts. John has been an active member of the Inter-Pacific Bar Association over many years, culminating in his appointment as Regional Co-ordinator for the Asia Pacific region from 2011 to 2013. As well as Arbitration, John has recently been recognised in Doyles guides latest Leading Workplace Health & Safety Law Senior Counsel – NSW, 2019 and Leading Employment Law Senior Counsel – Australia, 2020
Robert Goldstein
Rob has conducted mediations since 2008 as a principal of Rob Goldstein Mediation, a dedicated commercial mediation practice. In the 15 years since the change in his professional career from litigator to mediator, he has conducted close to 2700 mediations. Rob a Nationally Accredited Mediator and a Law Institute Accredited Specialist Mediator. Rob has been included on the Doyle’s List of leading mediators in Victoria in 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023. Prior to turning his focus to building my mediation practice, Rob practiced as a Law Institute Accredited Commercial Litigation Specialist. Rob sits on several panels of mediators, including the office of the Victorian Small Business Commission. Rob is briefed to conduct mediations in all commercial matters, with a specific emphasis on disputes in property, lease, franchising, defamation, testators’ family maintenance, consumer law and employment law areas. He conduct san even spread of court matters and pre-litigation disputes. Whilst Rob primarily practice as a facilitative mediator in exploring commercial outcomes for the parties, his personal approach is more interventionist as opposed to the traditional "whiteboard" mediator. With his background as an experienced litigator, Rob’s preference is to be consumed in the dispute with a view to achieving a commercial outcome. Rob also makes himself available to lawyers to present to them on how to best prepare for mediations and how to develop their negotiation skills.