CPD Core Competency Areas for All Lawyers on 25 March
Issues covered include: Work/Life Balance, Conflicts of Interest, Financial Statements
Description
A healthy work/life balance is a must for any practice. So too is your financial position and your relationship with your clients. Make sure you stay on the correct side of the ledger with practical insights into key financial issues facing your legal practice, effective management strategies for your staff and clients and how to avoid conflicts of interest.
Attend and earn 3 CPD points including:
1 CPD point in Competency Area 2: Professional Skills
1 CPD point in Competency Area 3: Ethics & Professional Responsibility
1 CPD point in Competency Area 1: Practice Management
Chair: Mark Gregory, Partner, Castledine Gregory
Competency Area 1: Practice Management
2.00pm to 3.00pm: Promoting a Healthy Work/Life Balance for Your Practice to Achieve Optimum Results
- Key statistics on stress in the legal profession
- Best ways to manage day-to-day stress
- Encouraging a work/life balance to ensure success
- Recognising destructive behaviour in your colleagues and what to do
Presented by Rick Cullen, Director, Cullen Macleod Lawyers
Competency Area 3: Ethics & Professional Responsibility
3.00pm to 4.00pm: Practical Legal Ethics: Conflicts of Interest
- Defining and recognising a conflict of interest
- Who is the client? Company or director?
- Tricky issues involving former clients
- Confidential information pitfalls
- Nuances of the duty of loyalty
- Managing and resolving a conflict of interest
- Consent and waiver
Presented by Sabina Schlink, Principal, Thomas Legal
4.00pm to 4.15pm: Afternoon Tea
Competency Area 2: Professional Skills
4.15pm to 5.15pm: Reading the Warning Signs on Financial Statements
In this practical and interactive session, you will:
- Analyse the financial position and prospects of a business
- Identify indicators of risk and uncertainty in specific financial statement amounts
- Use ratio analysis to detect warning signs
- Gain an appreciation of the warning signs that financial statements may be unreliable
- Discuss aspects of the financial statements which have been shown to be misstated
- Develop your confidence to analyse and interpret financial statements
Presented by Dino Travaglini, Director, Travaglini Corporate Advisory
Venue
Mercure Perth
Level 1, 10 Irwin St
Perth 6000
WA
Australia