CPD Core Competency Areas for All Lawyers on 5 March
Issues covered include: Employability Skills , Professional Courtesy, Practice Management Basics, profit
Description
Do you know in detail how to deftly increase your profit margins? Can you diffuse a privacy issue in your workplace? Do you know the rules around social media? Can you negotiate and communicate towards a successful outcome? These are the sorts of issues that, when mastered, can put you ahead of the pack. Attend and put yourself in a position to succeed.
Attend and earn 3 CPD points including:
1 CPD point in Competency Area 1: Practice Management
1 CPD point in Competency Area 2: Professional Skills
1 CPD point in Competency Area 3: Ethics & Professional Responsibility
Chair: Nick Murfett, Director, The Murfett Group
Competency Area 2: Professional Skills
2.00pm to 3.00pm: Employability Skills in the Modern Legal Landscape
- Can my personal social media accounts affect my legal career?
- Can I be disciplined or terminated for lawful opinions or activities outside work?
- Do professional expectations impact my out of hours conduct?
- Is criminal conduct an immediate cause for dismissal?
Presented by Shannon Walker, Senior Associate, Norton Rose Fulbright
Competency Area 3: Ethics and Professional Responsibility
3.00pm to 4.00pm: Written and Unwritten Rules of Professional Courtesy
- Solicitors ethical obligations: professional courtesy
- Negotiate and communicate to achieve the best results for clients and firms
- Practical guidance and an examination of some key cases highlighting where communication failed
Presented by Lisa Eaton, Barrister, Murray Chambers
4.00pm to 4.15pm: Afternoon Tea
Competency Area 1: Practice Management
4.15pm to 5.15pm: More Profit: 10 Practice Management Basics to Increase Net Profit by 10%
When legal practices focus on raising charge-out rates, increasing billable targets and slashing expenses to increase profit, they are opting for short-term gains with long-term pain. Sustainable growth comes from small, meaningful change resulting in a big impact.
- Working on each of the following issues can easily give a 1% profit improvement for each, so working on all 10 can give a 10% bump
- Review billing and time management
- Improve delegation and debrief
- Address email
- Lawyer/support ratio
- Practice management software
- Apply 80/20 rule to clients and staff
- Staff turnover
Presented by Cathryn Urquhart, Professional Skills Trainer
Venue
Mercure Perth
Level 1, 10 Irwin St
Perth 6000
WA
Australia