CPD Compulsory Units: Over Lunch, Over 3 Weeks Only Practicing in the Digital Era
We get it – you’re busy. But you also need your CPD compulsory units, and it never hurts to spend time elevating your practice and bringing it up to speed in the modern legal market. So we’ve put together a convenient, efficient and practical lunchtime web series where you can get your CPD compulsory units out of the way and bolster your practice all from the comfort of your home or office.
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We get it – you’re busy. But you also need your CPD compulsory units, and it never hurts to spend time elevating your practice and bringing it up to speed in the modern legal market. So we’ve put together a convenient, efficient and practical lunchtime web series where you can get your CPD compulsory units out of the way and bolster your practice all from the comfort of your home or office.
Session 1
Ethics & Professional Responsibility
Avoiding Ethical Dilemmas Online
- Risks of using social media as a lawyer
- Obligations of confidentiality
- Protecting confidentiality of online communications
- Personal versus professional communications
Presented by Vahan Bedrossian, Barrister, Edmund Barton Chambers
Session 2
Practice Management & Business Skills
Legal Services in a Digital Era: Winning and Maintaining Online Clients
- Legal perspective: whether starting out or well established, winning and retaining an online client can be a challenge
- Positioning your legal services to be more attractive to digital clients
- Networking amongst the online, start-ups and other communities disrupting the legal industry
- Balancing commercial and corporate risk and providing practical advice
- Client perspective: hear firsthand from a new online business model success story
- What was surprising and issues that arose that hadn’t been raised previously
- What was good value for money
- What is and what isn’t valuable to online clients when engaging a law firm
- Adapt or perish? Opportunities in disruption
- Legal marketplaces
- Digital marketing
- Document and process automation
Presented by Dominic Woolrych, Chief Executive Officer, LawPath
Session 3
Professional Skills
How to Manage and Limit your Legal Liability in Online Communications
- Validity and enforcement of electronic signatures
- Electronic contracting
- Dealing with cyber risks including confidentiality and privacy breaches
- Risks of entering into online contracts
- Identifying the terms and conditions of online contracts
- When are you bound by an online contract
- Managing risks and dealing with disputes