In-House Counsel Conference - Recorded in March 2020, NSW
Issues covered include: employment law, work health and safety, competition and consumer law, penalties in regulatory proceedings, contractual risk, legal professional privilege, unconscious bias, discrimination, misconduct.
Description
Sweeping in scope & formidable in depth, this conference will equip you with the insights you’ll be expected to have as your organisation’s legal counsel. Catch up on game changing workplace law changes, receive regulatory updates you cannot ignore and gain crucial contract and litigation tactics that will prove vital to your practice, all while gaining your core CPD area points.
Attend the full day and earn 7 CPD units including:
4 units in Substantive Law
1 unit in Ethics & Professional Responsibility
1 unit in Practice Management & Business Skills
1 unit in Professional Skills
Session 1
The Key Legal Issues for In-House Counsel in 2020
Chair: Blanka Moss, General Counsel, Schindler Lifts Australia
9.00am to 9.05am Opening Comments by the Chair
9.05am to 9.50am: Emerging Employment Law Issues for In-House Counsel
- The new whistleblowing policy in practice
- New corporate reporting obligations and supply chain transparency under the Modern Slavery Act
- Defining a work day: a landmark Federal Court decision in Mondelez v Automotive, Food, Metals, Engineering, Printing and Kindred Industries Union known as the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) [2019] FCAFC 138
- Additional significant cases, developments and trends in the area
Presented by David Cross, Partner, Norton Rose Fulbright; Best Lawyers 2019, Labor and Employment Law
9.50am to 10.35am: Work Health and Safety Review: Critical New Reforms
- Industrial manslaughter reforms: directors, managers and in-house counsel beware
- Innocence compliance responses to proposed and current industrial manslaughter laws
- Mental health risk management in the workplace: potential new procedures and responses to predicted new guidance material or regulations in 2020
- Additional significant cases, developments and trends in the area
Presented by Katherine Morris, Partner, Norton Rose Fulbright; Best Lawyers 2019, Occupational Health & Safety Law
10.35am to 10.50am Morning Tea
10.50am to 11.35am: Competition and Consumer Law Update
- The implications of the ACCC’s updated immunity policy and whistleblowing tool
- What the repeal of the IP exemption really means for IP arrangements
- ACCC hot spots in consumer law: misleading representations, unfair contracts & more
- Proposals for new prohibitions against unfair trading and unsafe goods
- Cartels: the rise of action against companies and executives
- Other developments, trends and practical tips for compliance
Presented by Michael Corrigan, Partner; Best Lawyers 2019, Competition Law, Litigation & Bet-the-Company Litigation; Leading Competition Lawyer, Doyle’s Guide 2019 and Stephanie Panayi, Special Counsel, Clayton Utz
11.35am to 12.20pm: The Rise in Penalties in Regulatory Proceedings: Lessons for In-House Counsel
- The rise in penalties as a tool for deterrence by regulators: Who has the ability to seek them, and for what?
- The new maximum penalty regime for ASIC and ACCC: What was the case for increased penalties?
- Recent cases on penalties
- Navigating AFCA (previously FOSS) complaints
- Dealing with greater litigation, prosecution and corporate scrutiny post Hayne Royal Commission
- Increased enforcement efforts and litigation by ASIC and other regulators
- How to effectively deal with regulators
Presented by Robert McGregor, Partner, HWL Ebsworth; Best Lawyers 2019, Litigation
12.20pm to 1.05pm: Contractual Risk: Practical Checklists, Tips & Example Clauses
- A guide to assessing, managing and mitigating contractual risks
- How to allocate risks
- Drafting and negotiating warranties and indemnities
- Drafting caps, limitations of liability, exclusion clauses and other contractual risk management provisions
- Interaction with insurance
- Checklists, tips and example clauses
Presented by Jonathan Stafford, Partner, DLA Piper
1.05pm to 1.15pm Final Q&A and Closing Comments by the Chair
Session 2
CPD Compulsory Units for In-House Counsel
Chair: Jane Webster, General Counsel and Company Secretary, Moorebank Intermodal Company
Professional Skills
2.00pm to 3.00pm: Legal Professional Privilege: Challenges and Strategies for In-House Counsel
- The legal notion of privilege and the elements for communications to attract privilege
- The difficulties and complexities in identifying these elements for in-house lawyers
- Challenges in respect of privilege for in-house lawyers
- Close relationships with the executive and management
- Separating what is a commercial or a privileged communication
- Strategies to attract privilege to communications for in-house lawyers
- Careful structuring of employment arrangements
- Employment contracts and independence policies
- Reporting lines and establishing systems and protocols
- Identifying the capacity in which any particular communication is made
Presented by Luke Buchanan, Solicitor Director, Buchanan Rees Dispute Lawyers; Best Lawyers 2020, Litigation & Class Action Litigation
Ethics & Professional Responsibility
3.00pm to 4.00pm: Countering Unconscious Bias, Discrimination and Misconduct
- Meeting your obligations as in-house counsel to deal with unconscious bias
- Identifying unconscious bias and its impact in your organisation
- Improving processes and decision making to address unconscious bias
- Managing your duties as in-house counsel when facing alleged discrimination and misconduct
- Navigating the dual role of acting as an investigator and as a legal adviser
- Legal professional privilege considerations
- Tips for dealing with hot button discrimination issues and other instances of misconduct
Presented by Alice DeBoos, Managing Partner, Kingston Reid; Best Lawyers 2020, Labour and Employment Law & Occupational Health & Safety Law; Preeminent Employment Lawyer (Employer Representation), Doyle’s Guide 2019
4.00pm to 4.15pm Afternoon Tea
Practice Management & Business Skills
4.15pm to 5.15pm: A Guide to Litigation for In-House Counsel: Getting there Efficiently
- A guide to legal project management for litigation
- Implementing responsive and cost-effective solutions
- Using technology in litigation to reduce costs
- Practical insights for effectively navigating investigations and disputes
- Dealing with the drain on internal resources and management of costs
Presented by Susan Bennett, Principal, Sibenco Legal & Advisory
Venue
Cliftons Sydney
Level 3, 10 Spring Street
Sydney 2000
NSW
Australia
Directions
Nearby Public Transport:
Train Stations - Wynyard 400m OR Martin Place 500m
Bus Interchange - Clarence Street 450m
Ferry - Circular Quay 1.2km
Parking Information
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