10 Points in One Day - Your Last Chance
Issues covered include: Consumer and competition law, ACCC, employment law, fair work legislation, safe harbour, mental health, wellbeing, conflict of interests, negotiation, mediation, property law, succession law, informal wills, PPSA, PPSR renewals, contracting in the digital age, digital footprints
Description
Make the most of your last chance to earn CPD this year by hearing from an expert panel who will give you all the information and skills necessary to grow your knowledge and practice. Featuring 10+ timely topics hand-picked to cover some of the most crucial areas, you’ll gain all the CPD you need and bolster your practice in one efficient, information-packed day.
Attend and earn 10 CPD units including:
7 units in Legal Knowledge
1 unit in Practical Legal Ethics
1 unit in Practice Management and Business Skills
1 unit in Professional Skills
This conference was recorded in QLD on 27 March 2019
Session 1
Commercial and Employment Law Update
Chair: Tim Sayer, Partner, Talbot Sayer; Preeminent Corporate Lawyer and Leading Commercial Lawyer, Doyle’s Guide 2018; Best Lawyers 2018, Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law and Private Equity Law
7.30am to 8.30am: Consumer and Competition Law Update
- Recent disputes and decisions
- Legislative developments and review of significant case law in the past year
- ACCC compliance and enforcement priorities for 2019
Presented by Shireen Long, Barrister, North Quarter Lane Chambers
8.30am to 9.30am: Employment Law Update
Reading and analysing all decisions to keep up to date is not always possible. Understand:
- Recent and significant employment law decisions and legislative updates
- Changes in Fair Work legislation anticipated in 2019 following the upcoming federal election
Presented by Heinz Lepahe, Partner, HWL Ebsworth
9.30am to 10.30am: Safe Harbour: An Operational Perspective
- Impact of safe harbour on business landscape when there is financial distress
- Assessing a client’s suitability for safe harbour
- Implementing the monitoring and protection of directors
- How legal and accounting advisors are working together
Presented by Michael Fingland, Executive Director and CEO, Vantage Performance
Session 2
CPD Mandatory Core Areas
Chair: Graeme McFadyen, Chief Executive Officer, Logan Law
Practice Management and Business Skills
10.45am to 11.45am: Promoting Mental Health and Wellbeing for Your Professional Practice
The knowledge skills and attitudes that make a good lawyer can often put even the more experienced lawyers at risk of experiencing high levels of stress and anxiety. Examine:
- Mental health issues and key stressors impacting lawyers at the workplace
- Developing self-regulation skills to thrive in a stressful and rewarding profession
- Strategies for managing those stressors and building resilience in a legal practice
Presented by Dr Rachael Field, Professor of Law, Faculty of Law, Bond University; Founder, Wellness Network for Law; 2013 Queensland Woman of the Year
Practical Legal Ethics
11.45am to 12.45pm: Conflict of Interest
- Legal and commercial conflicts: What is a conflict?
- Can I ever act against a former client?
- Lessons from key cases featuring conflicts
- Chinese walls, are they effective?
Presented by Drew Castley, Partner, Hall & Willcox
Professional Skills
12.45pm to 1.45pm: Negotiation and Mediation
- Identifying the other party’s goals and objectives
- Thinking outside the square
- Dealing with unhelpful mediators
- How to achieve more in negotiation and mediation
Presented by Michael Emerson, Principal, Brisbane Mediations and Principal, Advice Only Family Law; Accredited Specialist in Family Law
Session 3
Property, Wills and Contracts Roundup
Chair: Susan Anderson, Barrister, Queensland Bar
2.15pm to 3.15pm: Recent Developments in Property Law: Catching up on Everything You Need to Know
We shall review recent cases and developments including:
- The Qld Court of Appeal decision in Albion Mill FCP Pty Ltd & Anor v FKP Commercial Developments Pty Ltd [2018] QCA 229, and what amounts to written notice of contaminated land as recorded in the environmental management register (EMR) for the purposes of the Environmental Protection Act 1994 (Qld) (EPA)
- Legislative update including the new GST withholding laws, the current Bill to eliminate paper certificates of title in Queensland and changes to the Corporations Act and ipso facto insolvency reforms
Presented by Stephen Dickens, Partner, Mills Oakley Lawyers; Accredited Specialist in Commercial Litigation
3.15pm to 4.15pm: Recent Developments in Succession
- Attorney made superannuation binding death benefit nominations for incapacitated principals
- Will making in, or not in, contemplation of marriage
- Grounds to remove executors
- Informal wills: What new frontiers of social and/or electronic media made ‘wills’ are being admitted to probate?
Presented by Robert Cumming, Barrister, Inns of Court; Accredited Specialist in Succession Law
4.15pm to 4.30pm Afternoon Tea
4.30pm to 5.30pm: PPSA Update: Focus on Renewals
Most non transitional registrations last for 7 years with January 2019 seeing them begin to expire. You will gain insights on renewing effectively including:
- PPSR renewals overview and transitional registrations
- Compliance and correcting errors
- Managing a PPSR portfolio
Presented by Lynne Walton, Managing Director, Access PPSR
5.30pm to 6.30pm: Contracting in the 21st Century: Issues and Challenges in Contracting in the Digital Age
- Service and exchange of documents by electronic means: lessons and pitfalls
- E-commerce businesses: click wrap, browse wrap and contracting over the internet
- Digital footprints: careful where you step
Presented by Greg Richards, Partner, Mills Oakley Lawyers