In-House Counsel Conference
Issues covered include: Pecuniary Penalties in Regulatory Proceedings, Competition and Consumer Law Update, Employment Law, Occupational Health and Safety, Collaboration and Contracts, Data, Analytics, Technology & Organisational, Governance Skills, Corporate Boards, Becoming a Business Partner, Bystander Culture
Description
Sweeping in scope & formidable in depth, this conference will equip you with the insights you’ll be expected to have as your organisation’s legal counsel. Catch up on game changing workplace law changes, receive regulatory updates you cannot ignore and gain crucial contract law, technology and governance strategies that will prove vital to your practice, all while gaining your core CPD area points.
Attend the full day and earn 7 CPD units including:
4 units in Substantive Law
1 unit in Ethics & Professional Responsibility
1 unit in Practice Management & Business Skills
1 unit in Professional Skills
Session 1
The Key Legal Issues for In-House Counsel in 2020
Chair: Michael Chin, Senior Corporate Lawyer, AGL
9.00am to 10.00am: The Rise in Pecuniary Penalties in Regulatory Proceedings: Key Lessons for In-House Counsel
- The rise in civil pecuniary penalties as a tool for deterrence by regulators: Who has the ability to seek them, and for what?
- The new maximum civil pecuniary penalty regime for ASIC and ACCC: What was the case for increased penalties?
- Recent cases on pecuniary penalties
- Dealing with greater litigation, prosecution and corporate scrutiny post Hayne Royal Commission
- Increased enforcement efforts and litigation by ASIC and other regulators
- How to effectively deal with regulators
- Expanding compliance obligations for directors, in-house counsel and their advisors
Presented by Cam H Truong QC and Luisa F Alampi, Barristers, Foley’s List
10.00am to 11.00am: Competition and Consumer Law Update
- Cartels: the rise (and rise) of action against companies and executives
- The implications of the ACCC’s updated immunity policy and whistleblowing tool
- ACCC hot spots in consumer law, including misleading representations and unfair contract terms
- The proposals for new prohibitions against unfair trading and unsafe goods
- Other developments, trends and practical tips for compliance
Presented by Miranda Noble, Partner, MinterEllison
11.00am to 11.15am: Morning Tea
11.15am to 12.15pm: Employment Law and Occupational Health and Safety Update
- New corporate reporting obligations and supply chain transparency under the Modern Slavery Act
- Defining a work day: a landmark Federal Court decision in Mondelez v Automotive, Food, Metals, Engineering, Printing and Kindred Industries Union known as the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) [2019] FCAFC 138
- Industrial manslaughter reforms in Victoria: status update and how to prepare
- Additional significant cases, developments and trends in the area
Presented by Rob Jackson, Partner, Rigby Cooke Lawyers
12.15pm to 1.15pm: Collaboration and Contracts: Insights for In-House Counsel
- Collaboration as a ‘buzz word’
- What is collaboration and is it an end in itself or a means to an end?
- Can we contract for collaboration?
- Other considerations including competition law
Presented by Michael Chin, Senior Corporate Lawyer, AGL
Session 2
CPD Compulsory Units for In-House Counsel
Chair: Michael Chin, Senior Corporate Lawyer, AGL
Practice Management & Business Skills
2.00pm to 3.00pm: Utilising Data, Analytics, Technology & Organisational Change in Your In-House Role
- Compliance & reporting: how to use the latest technology and trends to meet regulatory challenges
- Insights into Intelligent Process Automation to improve your legal department’s performance
- Staying on top of future trends in compliance in a post Hayne Royal Commission world
- How you can leverage technology, data and legal analytics in your role
- Organisational change for senior management and the board to manage the future regulatory environment
Presented by Claire Vines, Head of Research & Development, LOD Innovation & Design
Professional Skills
3.00pm to 4.00pm: A Seat at the Table: Governance Skills, Corporate Boards, and Becoming a Business Partner
What better way to become an irreplaceable asset than by branching out beyond legal advice and securing a spot on the corporate board?
- What directors want from you
- The skills needed in the boardroom to succeed and how to cultivate them
- Influence and power: making your voice heard in the decision-making process
- Leveraging assertiveness, leadership and your legal skills
Presented by Brendan Earle, Partner, HWL Ebsworth; Best Lawyers 2019, Corporate / Governance Practice, Health & Aged Care Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law & Private Equity Law
4.00pm to 4.15pm: Afternoon Tea
Ethics & Professional Responsibility
4.15pm to 5.15pm: Tackling Bystander Culture: Countering Conduct Risk through Empowering Leadership
- Leveraging your role as in-house counsel to embed and model positive leadership behaviours in your organisation
- The role of leadership in modelling positive culture and reducing conduct risk
- Upskilling your leadership to address conduct risk
- Strategies for overcoming roadblocks to positive cultural change
- Legal professional privilege and the in-house counsel
- Managing your duties as in-house counsel when dealing with discrimination, harassment and bullying
- Investigator, legal adviser and decision-maker? Clarifying the scope of your role as in-house counsel
- Legal professional privilege, extending representation to respondents, and other considerations
- Particular issues when dealing with senior executive misconduct
Presented by Joelle Grover, Partner, MinterEllison and Michael Chin, Senior Corporate Lawyer, AGL
Venue
RACV City Club
Level 2, 501 Bourke St
Melbourne 3000
VIC
Australia
Parking Information
Parking is not included in your registration. Here are some options below. RACV City Club Car Park.
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Testimonials
“This has been the best and most relevant CPD seminar I have ever watched.”