CPD Compulsory Units: Costs and Billing for All Lawyers
Issues covered include: costs determinations, recovering costs, costs disclosure
Description
Protect yourself and your practice by making sure that you have the right skills in your costs and billing toolkit. Gain 10 critical tips in costs recovery, examine lessons from recent case law and explore why costs disclosure before settlement is critical, all while earning your compulsory CPD units
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
Practice Management & Business Skills
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 Paul Taylor, Principal and Charles Ackroyd, Principal, Pattison Hardman
Professional Skills
3.00pm to 4.00pm: Recovering Costs: From Clients and from Other Parties
- Top 10 tips in costs recovery
- Reducing the solicitor/client vs party/party gap
- Alternatives to costs assessment
Presented by Mike Dudman, Director, Costs Lawyer, Blackstone Legal Costing; Accredited Specialist in Costs Law
4.00pm to 4.15pm Afternoon Tea
Ethics & Professional Responsibility
4.15pm to 5.15pm: Costs Disclosure Before Settlement: Ethics and Professional Negligence
The Legal Profession Uniform Law requires that you disclose costs before settlement.
- Failure to disclose has 4 unpleasant consequences for lawyers:
- The lawyer's costs agreement is void
- Client need not pay the lawyer's legal costs until they have been assessed, at the lawyer's cost
- The lawyer must not commence or maintain proceedings to recover the legal costs until they have been assessed, at the lawyer's cost
- It may constitute unsatisfactory professional conduct or professional misconduct—and in the case of solicitors, by any principal of the law practice
- An alternative to the Denuto Principle when making costs disclosure
- How to make costs disclosure easy while complying with professional obligations
Presented by Philippe Doyle Gray, Barrister, 8 Wentworth Chambers
Venue
Cliftons Sydney
Level 3, 10 Spring Street
Sydney 2000
NSW
Australia
Directions
Nearby Public Transport:
Train Stations - Wynyard 400m OR Martin Place 500m
Bus Interchange - Clarence Street 450m
Ferry - Circular Quay 1.2km
Parking Information
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Secure Park 20 Bond Street - click here for rates
Wilson Park 1 O'Connell Street - click here for rates
Wilson Park 31 Bond Street - click here for rates