CANCELLED: Starting a New Law Firm
Starting your own firm is no easy task, especially when you need to decide on your approach to strategy, pricing, management, technology and employment practices. Take a half day to explore the strategies adopted by successful business leaders and legal experts and gain tactics to confidently establish and lead your firm into the future.
Description
Attend and earn 4 CPD points in Competency Area 1: Practice Management
Chair: John Poulsen, Principal, People Passion Performance; Former Managing Partner and CEO of Squire Patton Boggs
9.00am to 10.00am: Technology and the Modern Practice of Law
- Legal technology
- Cybersecurity and data governance
- Automation
Presented by Marco Marcello, Manager of Information Systems, Lavan
10.00am to 11.00am: Getting it Right from the Beginning: Workplace Wellbeing
- Workplace wellbeing: why it matters
- Working collaboratively to take a preventative approach to workplace wellbeing
- Strategies for supporting employees experiencing mental health conditions
Presented by Nikita Barsby, Special Counsel and Lauren Wright, Law Graduate, MDC Legal
11.00am to 11.15am: Morning Tea
11.15am to 12.15pm: How to Manage and Lead Your Firm into the Future
There is more to starting a law firm than just being a great lawyer. Managing and leading a law firm into the future requires good practice management. Rhea Wood will discuss the day to day essentials that you need to consider in order to shape your firm, including:
- How to maximise efficiency through well-defined operations and processes
- The ‘behind the scenes’ essentials of legal administration and management
- The benefits of proactive project management and importance of managing change
Presented by Rhea Wood, Legal Practice Manager, Tottle Partners
12.15pm to 1.15pm: Productise and Profit: Strategies to Build a Successful Business
When you design products for your customer’s needs, sell solutions instead of time, and systemise service delivery, you will free yourself from the grunt work and build a successful business that lets you spend your time doing the work you love. This 6-step process will teach you to master these skills, teaching you cutting edge strategies and tools to design productised services that your customers will buy. Lucy Dickens will share exactly what productised services are and why you need them in your practice.
Presented by Lucy Dickens, Senior Associate, Birman & Ride; Business Coach
Venue
Mercure Perth
Level 1, 10 Irwin St
Perth 6000
WA
Australia