Be Inspired: Women in Law
Issues covered include: leadership skills, ethical and professional responsibility, challenges, strategies, gender bias, excel and thrive
Description
“I never, ever grew up as a young woman believing that my gender would stand in the way of doing anything I wanted.” Jacinda Ardern, New Zealand Prime Minister.
Attend and earn 4 CPD hours including:
1 hour in Practical Legal Ethics
2 hours in Practice Management & Business Skills
1 hour in Professional Skills
This seminar was recorded in QLD on 27 August 2019
Chair: Kathryn McMillan QC, Quay 11 Chambers
9.00am to 9.05am Opening Comments by the Chair
Professional Skills
9.05am to 9.50am: Leadership Skills: Leading and Managing with Purpose and Influence
- Communicating your vision and setting clear goals
- Mastering strong business acumen and financial understanding
- Developing your strategic plan
- Adding value for you and your organisation
Presented by Jamie Shine, National Special Counsel - Major Claims, Shine Lawyers; President of the Women Lawyers Association of Queensland
Practical Legal Ethics
9.50am to 10.35am: Stepping Outside the “Law Bubble” – The Positive Impacts for your Career of Ethical Behaviour and Professional Responsibility
- Exploring the value of diversity in the workplace
- Coming to law following a career change
- Transferability of skills
- Government sector - what it can offer you
- Contributing to the profession and the community
- Pro bono activities
- Mentoring
- Professional reputation and ethical conduct
Presented by Christine Wilson, Senior Federal Prosecutor, Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions, WLAQ Government Lawyers Advisor and recipient of the WLAQ 2018 Trailblazer Award
10.35am to 10.50am Morning Tea
Practice Management & Business Skills
10.50am to 11.35am: Raising the Bar: How to Choose a Career Path that Allows you to Flourish
- Identifying mentors and supporters
- Optimising your work life balance
- How to move beyond self-limiting thoughts and habits and find your own way
Presented by Magistrate Nerida Wilson, Northern Coroner, Coroners Court of Queensland; 2013 Regional Woman Lawyer of the Year; 1 of 45 Australian Lawyers selected for the University of Melbourne Trailblazing Women in the Law project with her oral history now archived in the National Library of Australia
Practice Management & Business Skills
11.35am to 12.20pm: Rising to the Top: How to Excel and Thrive in the Legal Industry as a Female Practitioner
- How to remain true to your key vision, passion, and purpose in building your dream business
- How to be authentically ‘you’ and share this with the market and your prospective clients
- How to identify the significant value of your work and the profound impact it makes: this helps you acknowledge your worth and price yourself accordingly
- How to practice healthy boundaries: I.e. saying ‘yes’ to opportunities that align with you, and feeling comfortable in saying ‘no’ to what does not serve you: this helps you build the practice you want to lead and own
- Acknowledging that your work is bigger than you individually: this gives your work purpose, and helps you deal with the naysayers (in the market and in the profession)
- Understanding and acknowledging that profitability and kindness and compassion are not mutually exclusive
- How to have the courage to live your dreams out loud
Presented by Chrissy Leontios, Principal Lawyer, CLEON Legal and Mediation Services; Partner of the Year 2018, Lawyers Weekly Awards
12.20pm to 1.05pm: Panel Discussion
- The challenges women face in the legal field
- Developing strategies to overcome roadblocks
- Countering gender bias and misconduct in the legal profession #metoo
- Tips for dealing with colleagues, clients or opposing counsel with dated, difficult perceptions and biases
Panellists:
Chrissy Leontios, Principal Lawyer, CLEON Legal and Mediation Services
Magistrate Nerida Wilson, Northern CoronerCoroners Court of Queensland
Jamie Shine, National Special Counsel - Major Claims, Shine Lawyers
Presented by Christine Wilson, Senior Federal Prosecutor, Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions
1.05pm to 1.15pm Final Q&A and Closing Comments by the Chair
Venue
Mercure Brisbane
Level 2, 85-87 North Quay
Brisbane 4000
QLD
Australia
Parking Information
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