In-House Counsel Conference
Issues covered include: Penalties in Regulatory Proceedings, Competition and Consumer Law Update, Employment Law Update, Strengthening Your Organisation’s Legal Compliance Regime, Mental Health in the WorkplacePreventing Damage to Your Organisation’s Brand or Reputation, Effective Communications with the Board, Legal Professional Privilege
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 commercial and governance tactics that will prove vital to your practice, all while gaining your core CPD area points.
Attend and earn 7 CPD units including:
4 units in Legal Knowledge
1 unit in Practical Legal Ethics
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: Mark Anning, General Counsel and Company Secretary, Tritium
9.00am to 9.05am Opening Comments by the Chair
9.05am to 9.50am: 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
- 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 Anthea Faherty, Special Counsel, McInnes Wilson Lawyers
9.50am to 10.35am: Competition and Consumer Law Update
- ACCC’s immunity policy
- New cartel cases
- Changes to the misuse of market power – s46
- Anticompetitive behaviour: concerted practices s.45
- Consumer law:
- big fines in telco area
- unfair contracts: recent cases which have identified provisions of contracts which have been held to be unfair
Presented by David Grace, Consultant and Adelaide Hayes, Associate, Cooper Grace Ward
10.35am to 10.50am Morning Tea
10.50am to 11.35am: Employment Law Update
The way in-house counsel are able to deal with employment matters and emerging human resources issues presents a unique opportunity to those that are up to date and comfortable with employment and industrial issues. Focusing on issues resolution and early intervention explore:
- Significant cases, trends and legislative amendments
- Modelez and the definition of a work day
- Procedural fairness and natural justice: a useful tool as well as an employer obligation in all employment issues
- Workplace investigations: when, who and how
- Conflict coaching and early interventions
Presented by Amanda Harvey, Director Principal, Thrive Workplace Consulting & Legal / Weir Consulting (National)
11.35am to 12.20pm: Strengthening Your Organisation’s Legal Compliance Regime
- Identifying potential compliance risks
- Role of the in-house lawyer
- Keeping abreast of the law and communicating changes
- Addressing possible pitfalls in compliance
- Tailoring compliance training for your organisation
Presented by Mark Anning, General Counsel and Company Secretary, Tritium Pty Ltd; Prepared by Rebecca Hoare, Partner, Norton Rose Fulbright
12.20pm to 1.05pm: Mental Health in the Workplace: Critical Considerations for In-House Counsel
- Mental health risk management in the workplace in response to the predicted new regulations
- Predicted before March 2020 there will be released guidance material, or maybe actual regulations, regarding mental health risk management in the workplace
- Hasn’t existed before in the WHS regulations and will prompt companies to look at if their current procedures are satisfactory or not
- Navigating the intersection of mental health and employment law
- OH&S obligations, performance management and managing employees with mental health issues
- Additional significant cases, developments and trends in the area
Presented by Belinda Winter, Partner, Cooper Grace Ward; qualified Mental Health First Aid Instructor; committee member, QLD Law Society Wellness Committee; Best Lawyers 2020, Labour and Employment Law and Occupational Health & Safety Law
1.05pm to 1.15pm Final Q&A and Closing Comments by the Chair
Session 2
CPD Mandatory Core Areas for In-House Counsel
Chair: Mark Young, In-House Lawyer, Translational Research Institute
Practice Management & Business Skills
2.00pm to 3.00pm: Preventing Damage to Your Organisation’s Brand or Reputation…and Repairing it When Things go Wrong
The Governance Institute of Australia’s 2019 Risk Management Survey identified damage to brand or reputation as the 2nd highest risk to manage in the coming year. Hone your skills and strategies in preventing and dealing with damage to your organisation’s brand and reputation by examining:
- Managing your organisation’s reputational risk
- Effective strategies for corporate crisis prevention and planning
- The role of the general counsel
- What to do when things go wrong
- Communicating and managing your staff’s obligations, even out of hours
- Tips for preventing or repairing damage to your organisation’s reputation online
- Defamation risks and defences
- How to respond if threatened with legal action
- Practical examples and case studies
Presented by Trent Taylor, Partner and Blair Beven, Partner, Holding Redlich
Professional Skills
3.00pm to 4.00pm: Effective Communications with the Board
- Strategies for effective communication with the Board
- How can you actually influence and build trust with the Board?
- Tips for preparing memorandums of advice
- Simplifying complex issues into clear, concise advice
- How to communicate information that the Board will disagree with or simply does not want to hear
- The elephant in the room: what to do if you don’t have faith in your Board to take the correct course of action in a given situation
- Asserting your advice and recommendations in a persuasive manner
Presented by Daniel Gosewisch, General Counsel, Minor DKL Food Group
4.00pm to 4.15pm Afternoon Tea
Ethics & Professional Responsibility
4.15pm to 5.15pm: Legal Professional Privilege: Challenges and Strategies for In-House Counsel
- Legal professional privilege: key principles
- When are communications with in-house lawyers privileged?
- What qualifications do in-house lawyers require?
- Challenges caused by close relationships and blurred lines between legal, executive and management teams
- Strategies for in-house counsel to maintain privilege
Presented by Kathryn Finlayson, Partner, MinterEllison
Venue
Mercure Brisbane
Level 2, 85-87 North Quay
Brisbane 4000
QLD
Australia
Parking Information
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Directions
Nearby Public Transport:Train Stations - Roma Street StationBus Interchange - George Square Bus Station