Ethics, Professional Skills & Practice Management for All Lawyers: Mitigating Risk, Employee Performance and Ethics
Attend and learn how to recognise and mitigate legal and reputational risk that can affect you or your clients. Receive expert guidance on how to hold and get the most out of performance conversations with your employees. Receive an important reminder on what constitutes appropriate professional conduct online and outside of hours, and critique situations that can leave you exposed to risk. WEB243N19Z
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
Chair: Guy Betar, Principal Lawyer – Commercial, FCW Lawyers
Practice Management & Business Skills
2.00pm to 3.00pm A New Era of Legal and Reputation Risk Mitigation
- The role of lawyers and communication/reputation management specialists to map, track, prepare for and minimise reputation risk
- The new risk frontiers and how to mitigate these risks
- The impact of getting it wrong: new crisis research into 73 listed company crises from around the world and the often severe and long-lasting financial impacts
- Decades of lessons learned about the best and worst of crisis management and how to apply to your firm and clients
Presented by Craig Badings, Partner, SenateSHJ
Professional Skills
3.00pm to 4.00pm Holding Effective Performance Conversations with your Employees
- What is the purpose of having a conversation about performance?
- What is the difference between performance reviews and performance management?
- Should performance discussions be separate to salary reviews?
- When should performance conversations be held?
- How many should there be?
- Is there a fine line between performance conversations and bullying?
Presented by Joydeep Hor, Founder and Managing Principal, People + Culture Strategies
4.00pm to 4.15pm Break
Ethics and Professional Responsibility
4.15pm to 5.15pm Navigating Ethical Dilemmas Online and Out of Hours
- Professional conduct issues arising:
- online (on social media and by email)
- ‘out of hours’
- Using the Australian Solicitors Conduct Rules to understand (and navigate) ethical dilemmas
Presented by Angus Macinnis, Director of Dispute Resolution, StevensVuaran Lawyers, and panel member, Professional Conduct Advisory Panel of the Law Society of New South Wales
Presenters
Guy Betar
Guy Betar is a senior corporate and commercial lawyer specialising in technology and IP, with major transaction experience throughout Asia Pacific, the Middle East, Europe and the Americas. His experience and expertise encompasses a wide range of corporate and commercial business activities to include the handling of complex corporate transactions, drafting and analysis of all types of commercial agreements, technology and IT, corporate structuring, M&A and financing, all areas of IT/IP law, entertainment and creative industries, marketing, manufacturing, distribution, privacy and communications. Guy has specialist expertise in a number of these areas. Guy joined FCW Lawyers from an in-house national Legal Counsel role responsible for a Fortune 500 organisation’s Australian and New Zealand interests. He has held roles as director, executive manager and senior counsel for major IT companies, and as a commercial partner in Australian law firms.
Craig Badings
Craig has over 30 years’ experience counselling major corporations and senior executives on issues and crisis management, reputation protection and recovery, media relations and profile management as well as thought leadership in the healthcare, financial and professional services, biotech, medical devices, education, property, construction, FMCG, telecoms, manufacturing, not for profit, IT and government sectors.He has worked with numerous legal firms and in-house legal counsel across a range of crises. He recently contributed to Dr Tony Jaques’ latest crisis communication book: Crisis Counsel: Navigating Legal and Communication Conflict.
Joydeep Hor
Joydeep Hor is People + Culture Strategies Founder and Managing Principal. He is one of Australia's most well-known workplace relations lawyers due to his high media profile (both as a sought-after media commentator and prolific keynote speaker including appearing regularly on shows such as Sunrise and on Sky Business Channel) and his representation of several high profile clients throughout his career. While an expert in all areas of workplace relations, Joydeep is one of Australia's "go to" lawyers for complex and sensitive terminations of employment and also for addressing all aspects of workplace behaviour and culture (such as bullying and harassment). With professional qualifications already as a Fellow of the Australian Human Resources Institute, Chartered Fellow of the United Kingdom's Institute of Personnel and Development, a Master of Laws from University of Sydney (where he previously completed a Bachelor of Laws with Honours degree and a Bachelor of Arts majoring in English literature) Joydeep completed Harvard Business School's Owner/President Management Program in March 2016.
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.