Women in Law: The Power of Potential
Issues covered include: Realising your Potential, Mentoring, Negotiation, Advocacy
Description
There is an urgent need to acknowledge and identify critical and important issues for you and your career as a woman in law. Act now, don’t wait. Enhance and embrace your aspirations for you and your career. Hear how to have a long and successful career in the law and making the most of all opportunities as they come your way. Think about your career – what do you want, and how will you achieve it? Come and join a collection of some of the most impressive women in the legal industry and find out.
Attend and earn 3 CPD points including:
2.5 CPD points in Competency Area 2: Professional Skills
0.5 CPD point in Competency Area 3: Ethics & Professional Responsibility
Chair: TBC
2.00pm to 2.30pm: Keynote Address: Personal Reflections on Life, Law and Making Sense of it All (or, at Least Some of it)
Presented by Catherine Fletcher, Information Commissioner, Office of the Information Commissioner
2.30pm to 3.15pm: Realising your Potential
- Coming to the law on your own terms
- Contributing to the profession and the community
- Volunteer work
- Mentoring
- Working in regional WA
- Mental health and trauma informed practice: adopting strategies to prevent burnout
Presented by Melita Medcalf, Solicitor in Charge, Pilbara Legal Aid
3.15pm to 4.15pm: Negotiation and Advocacy: Tips and Tricks for Women in Practice
- Knowing and leveraging your personal style
- The basis of all persuasion
- Battle plans and battle dress
- Reputation and integrity
Presented by Helen Prince, Barrister, Equus Chambers
4.30pm to 5.15pm: Mentoring as a Means of Unlocking your Potential
- Choosing the best mentor for you
- Using mentoring to work out what you really want from your career
- Using mentoring to develop your professional network
Presented by Sophie Manera, Solicitor and Registered Migration Agent, Rothstein Lawyers; 2019 Mentor of the Year Winner, Lawyers Weekly Awards
Venue
Mercure Perth
Level 1, 10 Irwin St
Perth 6000
WA
Australia