CPD Core Areas for Workers Compensation Lawyers
Issues covered include: building a practice, prosecute and/or defend a stress claim, ethics.
Description
Earn your CPD core competency area points designed specifically for workers compensation lawyers while at the same time gaining practical tips and tools towards running a successful practice. Our panel of experts will also navigate you through handy claim strategies for both sides and then we delve into the complex world of ethics. Not to be missed.
Attend and earn 3 CPD points including:
1 point in Competency Area 1: Practice Management
1 point in Competency Area 2: Professional Skills
1 point in Competency Area 3: Ethics & Professional Responsibility
Chair: Jessica Henderson, Barrister, Francis Burt Chambers
Practice Management and Business Skills
2.00pm to 3.00pm: Building a Successful Workers Compensation Law Practice
- What makes a successful worker’s compensation practice: discover the key “building blocks” for this
- How to use the blocks
- Maintaining a solid base for your practice
- How to grow your business
- Explore the various tips and traps
Presented by Martin Dobson, Partner, Moray and Agnew, Best Lawyer (Insurance) 2019
Professional Skills
3.00pm to 4.00pm: How to Prosecute and/or Defend a Stress Claim
- Practical tips
- Case management and document/evidence creation and control
- Effective communication between the parties
Presented by David Burton, Partner, SRB Legal
4.00pm to 4.15pm Afternoon Tea
Ethics and Professional Responsibility
4.15pm to 5.15pm: Ethical Considerations for Workers’ Compensation Lawyers
- Ethical considerations when instructing a medical professional
- Dealing with a self-represented or unrepresented opposing party
- Working with a client who has a mental illness
- Working on traumatic or sensitive matters
Presented by Nicholas van Hattem, Barrister, Francis Burt Chambers
Venue
Parmelia Hilton
Level 1, Meeting Room, 14 Mill Street
Perth 6000
WA
Australia
Directions
Nearby Public Transport:
Train Stations - The Esplanade Station
Bus Interchange - St Georges Terrace Cloisters Green
Parking information
Parmilia Hilton - Valet Parking only - Click here to view rates.
Convention Centre - 100 metres from Parmelia Hilton. Click here to view rates.