CPD Core Competency Areas for All Lawyers
Issues covered include: mental health, ethics, confidentiality, work health and safety, client expectations, leveraging technology
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Description
Today’s expectations on lawyers can at times be unreasonable with clients demanding 24/7 turnaround service that places untold pressure to perform. That is why it is vital to be aware of the signs of poor mental health in your practice to avoid it becoming a WHS issue; knowing how to use technology to increase your efficiency and capture valuable time savings; plus understanding your paramount and fundamental ethical duty of confidentiality can ensure you meet your client’s expectations.
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: Debbie Taylor, Barrister, Francis Burt Chambers
Competency Area 1: Practice Management
2.00pm to 3.00pm: Mental Health in the Workplace: How to Avoid it Becoming a WHS Issue in Your Practice
- The risks for your practice associated with a failure to adequately deal with mental health issues in the workplace
- Managing investigations where mental health is an issue
- Mental illness and fitness for work assessments
Presented by Rosemary Roach, Consultant, Corrs Chambers Westgarth; Best Lawyers 2020, Labour and Employment Law; Recommended Employment Lawyer (Employer Representation), Doyle’s Guide 2019
Competency Area 2: Professional Skills
3.00pm to 4.00pm: How to Use Technologies to Best Increase Efficiency and Gain Valuable Time Savings
- The use of dictation, including by using voice recognition software for a laptop, desktop or phone
- Using templates and autotext on Outlook
- How best to make use of time travelling to and from court and clients
- Using offshore transcription effectively for meetings and telephone calls with clients
Presented by Richard Graham, Principal, Vogt Graham Lawyers
4.00pm to 4.15pm Afternoon Tea
Competency Area 3: Ethics & Professional Responsibility
4.15pm to 5.15pm: Confidentiality: A Paramount and Fundamental Duty
- Sources of the duty
- Ethical rules and guidelines
- Lawyer’s oath of office
- Recent High Court decisions and some other cases
- Lawyer disclosing information and exceptions to the rule: Lawyer X
Presented by Tim Houweling, Director, Cornerstone Legal; Adjunct Professor of Law, Murdoch University
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.