CPD Compulsory Units for All Lawyers on 5 March
Issues covered include: Reputational Risk , Confidentiality, Privilege and Waiver, Legal Costs
Description
Let the experts guide you on how to develop your personal brand as a lawyer, gain insights on privilege and perfect your legal costs skills, all while gaining your CPD compulsory units requirements.
Attend and earn 3 CPD units including:
1 unit in Ethics & Professional Responsibility
1 unit in Practice Management & Business Skills
1 unit in Professional Skills
Chair: Ric Birkett, Principal Lawyer, Aitken Partners
Professional Skills
2.00pm to 3.00pm: Managing Reputational Risk and Developing Your Personal Brand as a Lawyer
92% of employers or clients will search online for your social and professional profile before engaging with you.
If your online presence isn’t perfect, you’re potentially letting opportunity after opportunity needlessly slip through your fingers without you even knowing it. Master how to leverage your personal reputation to progress your career and gain practical insights into what to do when there’s an issue with your personal brand.
- Developing, promoting and protecting your personal brand
- Online reputation management: how to control what gets seen about you online
- A step by step guide to fortifying your reputation and building your profile
- How to repair your reputation when there is negative information about you online, whether accurate or not
Presented by Shane Chand, Founder & Head of Search, Digital Squad
Ethics & Professional Responsibility
3.00pm to 4.00pm: Confidentiality, Privilege and Waiver: Case Studies
- A brief refresher of the law
- Some important recent developments
- Traps to be aware of
Presented by Monika Furman, Barrister, Svenson Barristers
4.00pm to 4.15pm Afternoon Tea
Practice Management & Business Skills
4.15pm to 5.15pm: Mastering Legal Costs
- Difference between solicitor/client and party/party costs and professional fees and disbursements
- Costs disclosure and effects of failure to disclose
- Recovering costs of taxation in a party/party costs dispute
- Recovering costs of taxation in a solicitor/client costs dispute
- Effect of Calderbank Offers and Offers of Compromise
- Different types of orders that can be made by the Court
- Supreme Court scale of costs
- Best practicesto maximise party/party recoveries and reduce solicitor/client costs
Presented by Dipal Prasad, Senior Associate, Blackstone Legal Costing
Venue
RACV City Club
Level 2, 501 Bourke St
Melbourne 3000
VIC
Australia
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