CANCELLED: Costs and Billing for All Lawyers
Utilising effective costs and billing practices is a vital skill for any lawyer. Protect yourself and your practice by making sure that you have the right skills in your toolkit for this critically important area that is so vital to a healthy lawyer/client relationship. Learn how to respond to cost complaints, your costs disclosure obligations, solicitor/client taxation and more.
Description
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: Matthew Curwood, Barrister, Francis Burt Chambers; Legal Costs Committee Member
Competency Area 1: Practice Management
2.00pm to 3.00pm: Determinations on Costs from the Last 12 Months: Lessons for Your Practice
Review the most significant costs cases from the past year and discuss the practices, trends and findings arising out of the costs assessment process and how the decisions and determinations by costs assessors may impact on your practice.
Presented by Richard Graham, Partner, Vogt Graham Lawyers
Competency Area 3: Ethics & Professional Responsibility
3.00pm to 4.00pm: Cost Complaints and Your Ethical Obligations
- Costs complaints: trends in the Legal Profession Complaints Committee
- Responding to cost complaints and enquiries
Presented by Sandra Costopoulos, Legal Officer, Rapid Resolution Team and Catherine Carroll, Manager, Rapid Resolution Team, Legal Profession Complaints Committee
4.00pm to 4.15pm Afternoon Tea
Competency Area 2: Professional Skills
4.15pm to 5.15pm: Billing, Costs Agreements and Disclosure Obligations
- Costs disclosure obligations: a refresher
- Billing: duties and pitfalls
- Solicitor-client taxation
Presented by Daniel Coster, Senior Associate, Moray & Agnew Lawyers
Venue
Mercure Perth
Level 1, 10 Irwin St
Perth 6000
WA
Australia