In-House Counsel: CPD Core Competency Areas
Issues covered include: Corporate Governance, Risk, Duties, Legal Compliance Regime, Legal Professional Privilege
Description
Things can go very wrong, very quickly for any in-house counsel that fails to develop comprehensive and practical strategies to deal with governance risk, regulatory compliance, and legal professional privilege pitfalls. Gain the knowledge and tactics you need to protect your organisation and yourself, all while gaining your core CPD points for the year.
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: Brett Dingli, Chief Legal Counsel, Craveable Brands
Competency Area 1: Practice Management
2.00pm to 3.00pm: Corporate Governance Risk: Duties, Consequences and Dealing With Corporate Psychopaths
- Legal, psychological and personal commentary on managing corporate governance risk
- Dealing with difficult colleagues and psychopathic directors
- Understanding director duties under the Corporations Act
- The financial and business impact of mismanaged corporate governance risk
- The consequences: insolvency, regulatory enforcement, civil penalties and more
Presented by Carl Huxtable, Partner, Hall Chadwick
Competency Area 2: Professional Skills
3.00pm to 4.00pm: Strengthening Your Organisation’s Legal Compliance Regime
- Dealing with greater litigation, prosecution and corporate scrutiny post Hayne Royal Commission
- How to effectively deal with regulators
- Increased enforcement efforts and litigation by regulators
- Meeting expanding compliance obligations for directors, in-house counsel and their advisors
- Honing your organisation’s compliance regime
- Identifying potential compliance risks
- Keeping abreast and communicating changes of the law
- Addressing possible pitfalls in compliance
- Tailoring compliance training for your organisation
Presented by David Yates, Partner, Corrs Chambers Westgarth
4.00pm to 4.15pm: Afternoon Tea
Competency Area 3: Ethics & Professional Responsibility
4.15pm to 5.15pm: 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 Miriam Power, Special Counsel, Kingston Reid
Venue
Mercure Perth
Level 1, 10 Irwin St
Perth 6000
WA
Australia