CPD Required Units for All Lawyers
Issues covered include: complaints, competitive legal market, recover costs by parties acting in person and solicitors acting in person
Description
Get your core area CPD points out of the way early with this practical afternoon of sessions aimed at improving your practice’s efficiency, effectiveness and success. Master the art of dealing with complaints while emerging unscathed. Prepare your practice for the ever changing tides of an always evolving legal market. And finally, square your professional skills point away with an eye opening look at how to recover costs.
Attend and earn 3 CPD units including:
1 unit in Practical Legal Ethics
1 unit in Practice Management or Business Skills
1 unit in Professional Skills
This seminar was recorded in SA on 19 June 2019
Chair: Kristie Molloy, Barrister, Legoe Chambers
Practical Legal Ethics
2.00pm to 3.00pm: Avoiding Complaints, or Dealing with Them
- What commonly causes complaints?
- What should you do to avoid complaints?
- Overcharging issues
- How should you deal with an investigation?
Presented by Greg May, Legal Profession Conduct Commissioner
Practice Management or Business Skills
3.00pm to 4.00pm: The New Law: Will Your Business Model Help You Survive an Increasingly Competitive Legal Market?
Examine best practice methods in legal operations, with a focus on increasing efficiency in a legal team, including:
- The value of doing less contracting
- Adopting middle ground positions from the outset
- Removing waste in legal processes using lean Six sigma theory
- Identifying and removing low value work from your day to day activities
Presented by Jason Ryan, Principal and Head of Legal Operations, Lexvoco
4.00pm to 4.15pm Afternoon Tea
Professional Skills
4.15pm to 5.15pm: How to Recover Costs by Parties Acting in Person, and in Particular by Solicitors Acting in Person
- The general rule unrepresented parties are not entitled to costs for time expended in legal proceedings
- The old exception, a solicitor who acts for himself or herself can recover party/party costs: London Scottish Benefit Society v Chorley
- The exception is doubted: Cacchia v Hanes
- Special Leave to Appeal granted: Bell Lawyers Pty Ltd v Pentelow & Anor
- Predicting Pentelow
- Likely commercial results if the Chorley exception is removed
- The limited recovery of a litigant in person: disbursements
Presented by Bill Ericson, Principal, Ericson Legal; author, Billing and Costs
Venue
Stamford Plaza Adelaide Hotel
Level 2, 150 North Terrace
Adelaide 5000
SA
Australia