Ethics, Professional Skills & Practice Management for All Lawyers: Ethics, Workplace Disputes and Commercial Transactions
Stay on top of the ethical dilemmas you will encounter in your everyday practice. Understand how to approach workplace conflict, complaints, and disputes professionally and competently. Learn how to recognise risks and red flags in your commercial agreements and develop a strong due diligence framework for approaching commercial transactions. Receive all this and much more while gaining your core CPD units for the year. WEB243V16Z
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: Bronwyn Weir, Managing Director, Weir Legal and Consulting
Ethics & Professional Responsibility
2.00pm to 3.00pm Contemporary Ethical Dilemmas
Join an experienced barrister and delve into the ethical pitfalls and risks that can trip up you, your practice and your clients. Explore real world examples, examine the key facts in each, and develop strategies to avoid getting caught in ethical traps.
Presented by Murray McInnis, Barrister, Holmes List
Practice Management & Business Skills
3.00pm to 4.00pm Never Waste a Crisis! Holistic Management of Workplace Complaints
- Comprehensive Framework: Discuss the importance of establishing a comprehensive framework for handling workplace complaints, including:
- addressing individual complaints
- proactively preventing them through robust policies, communication, and organizational culture.
- Implications of the guidance from AHRC: including:
- the positive duty to eliminate Sexual Harassment
- the Safe Work Model Code of Practice on Managing Psychosocial Risks
- identifying, mitigating, and managing these risks arising from workplace complaints and dealing with them in a holistic way.
- Tips and traps: particular areas of risk to manage and mitigate
Presented by Jodie Fox, Director, Worklogic Consulting
4.00pm to 4.15pm Break
Professional Skills
4.15pm to 5.15pm How to Identify and Address Risks in your Commercial Agreements
- The concept of risk & commercial transactions
- Recognition of types of risk (including the use of precedents)
- Assessment of relevant risks
- Addressing risks and strategies/tools of mitigation
- The steps/role of preparation, documentation or self preservation
- Commercial documentation OR ‘what to do once I’ve done all the hard work’
Presented by Simon Owen, Principal, Grantleigh House
Presenters
Bronwyn Weir
Bronwyn has been a lawyer for over 20 years. She recently established Weir Legal and Consulting Pty Ltd having previously worked as a senior partner of a large law firm. Bronwyn advises governments on complaints management, licencing, disciplinary inquiries, enforcement, decision making and administrative law. Bronwyn also advises on regulatory practice and risk-based decision-making by regulators. She has worked with regulators in sectors including early childhood education and care, building, VET education, health, food safety, racing and primary industries. Bronwyn has a strong reputationin the area of building regulation. In 2018 she co-authored a report with Professor Peter Shergold to all state and territory and federal governments on building regulation issues. She continues to act for a number of governments in relation to their implementation of the report including Victoria, Qld, NSW and WA.
Murray McInnis
Murray McInnis was admitted in 1977 and employed as a solicitor until he commenced at the Bar. He is currently a Barrister and Nationally Accredited Mediator. He practised in a wide area of commercial, civil, criminal and administrative law for a period of 20 years at the Bar from 1980 to 2000. He was appointed as a Chapter III Justice of the Federal Magistrates Court of Australia (now the Federal Circuit Court of Australia) in June 2000. He resigned his Commission on 28 January 2008 and returned to the Bar on 4 February 2008. During his time as a Commonwealth Justice Mr. McInnis delivered almost 800 judgments (with media neutral citations) mainly in general federal law of which approximately 70 have been reported. The judgments covered a wide area of commercial law, administrative law, human rights and family law. The commercial law cases include a substantial number of insolvency, trade practices and some copyright matters. The administrative law decisions covered appeals from the Administrative Appeals Tribunal together with applications under the Administrative Decisions (Judicial Review) Act and a significant volume of cases requiring judicial review under the Migration Act. Mr. McInnis was a director of White Ribbon Australian from 2012 to 2016 and a Lead Ambassador for White Ribbon from about 2007 to 2016. He was President of the United Nations Association of Australia (Victoria) from 2012 to 2013. He was a Judge of the United Nations of Australia Media Awards from 2002 to 2012 and Chairman of the Judging Panel from 2009 to 2012. From 2011 to 2014 he was an Appeal Board Judge for the Victorian Football Federation and a member of Victorian Bar Ethics Committee from 2012 to 2016. He is currently a member of the Victorian Bar Commercial Bar Association -Sports Law Committee. Finally, Mr. McInnis also had 7 readers at the Victorian Bar, acted as a judge for Monash Uni Law Faculty moots from 2013-2016 and is currently a mentor to Melbourne Uni JD students and has been a mentor since 2013.
Jodie Fox
Jodie brings 20 years’ experience as an employment lawyer and consultant to her Worklogic directorship. Working previously at a top-tier law firm, in-house within the Federal Government and in ASX 200 firms, Jodie has a deep understanding of employment law across business sectors. Jodie is a Director at Worklogic - a boutique consultancy firm of investigators, mediators, and trainers that assists employers to mitigate the risk of poor Workplace Behaviour. Jodie appreciates the policy and regulatory aspects of workplace behaviour and thinks and writes on issues of workplace culture, workplace bullying, and sexual harassment. She is often called on to conduct particularly sensitive workplace investigations into allegations against senior employees. Jodie is an Honorary Senior Fellow at the University of Melbourne Law School where she teaches Workplace Investigations as a master’s unit.
Simon Owen
Simon Owen has almost 30 years of experience as a corporate and commercial lawyer and corporate advisor with particular focus upon developing businesses and capital markets. He has acted as a Chairman and Director, both executive and non-executive, for a number of listed and unlisted public companies. He also has considerable executive experience in the establishment and development of businesses in industries including technology and manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, agriculture, resources, oil & gas and finance. His various roles (both as an advisor and a Chairman/Director) have provided extensive experience in strategic planning, corporate finance, negotiating and structuring acquisitions, establishing and managing joint ventures and regulatory compliance in various jurisdictions.