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CPD Compulsory Units: Over Lunch, Over 3 Weeks Only Practicing in the Digital Era

We get it – you’re busy. But you also need your CPD compulsory units, and it never hurts to spend time elevating your practice and bringing it up to speed in the modern legal market. So we’ve put together a convenient, efficient and practical lunchtime web series where you can get your CPD compulsory units out of the way and bolster your practice all from the comfort of your home or office.

CPD Compulsory Units - Recorded in September 2019, NSW

Issues covered include: managing client expectations, legal professional privilege, communication skills and managing high conflict matters

Managing Client Expectations - Recorded in September 2019, NSW

Issues covered include: managing client expectations, legal professional privilege, communication skills and managing high conflict matters

Legal Professional Privilege: A Refresher and Some Current Issues- Recorded in September 2019, NSW

Issues covered include: managing client expectations, legal professional privilege, communication skills and managing high conflict matters

Communication Skills and Managing High Conflict Matters - Recorded in September 2019, NSW

Issues covered include: managing client expectations, legal professional privilege, communication skills and managing high conflict matters

CPD Compulsory Units: Privilege: A Fresh Approach - Recorded in February 2020, NSW

Issues covered include: people skills, communicating effectively, managing difficult skills, communication skills, legal professional privilege, ethics, negotiation skills, making a deal

CPD Compulsory Units: People Skills and Communicating to Effectively Manage Clients - Recorded in February 2020, NSW

Issues include: people skills, communicating effectively, managing difficult skills, communication skills, legal professional privilege, ethics, negotiation skills, making a deal

CPD Compulsory Units: Making a Deal: Negotiation Skills - Recorded in March 2020, NSW

Issues covered include: people skills, communicating effectively, managing difficult skills, communication skills, legal professional privilege, ethics, negotiation skills, making a deal

CPD Compulsory Units: Recorded in February 2020, NSW

Issues include: people skills, communicating effectively, managing difficult skills, communication skills, legal professional privilege, ethics, negotiation skills, making a deal

CPD Compulsory Units: Surviving New Data Breach Risks

Issues covered include: surviving and responding to a data breach, effective practice management and professional skills, the cybersecurity landscape and managing insurance issues and third party claims associatedwith data breaches.

CPD Compulsory Units: Avoiding Online Ethical Disasters

Issues covered include: data breach, social media ethics, practice management, digital age, business skills, professional skills, budgets, upskilling, employment issues, virtual business models

CPD Compulsory Units: Practice Management in the Digital Age: COVID-19 & Beyond

Issues covered include: data breach, social media ethics, practice management, digital age, business skills, professional skills, budgets, upskilling, employment issues, virtual business models

Wellness, Stress Management and Good Health All Lawyers (Australia and New Zealand)

Lawyers are working from home, which brings new and unchartered pressures. Have you considered how wellness practices could work for you?

The George Pell Verdict: Analysing the Implications

Issues covered include: George Pell

Mandatory Code of Conduct for Commercial Leasing (NSW) and Property Law Update

Issues covered include: Mandatory Code of Conduct, termination of leases, rent reductions, rent waivers, Retail Leases Act, Retail Trading Act

Insolvency & Debt Recovery COVID-19 Update: Bankruptcy Notices, Statutory Demands & Revised Court Procedures

Issues covered include: Corporations Act 2001, Bankruptcy Act 1996, debt recovery, court and tribunals procedures, COVID-19

Privacy and Confidentiality in Remote Working Arrangements

Issues covered include: privacy, confidentiality, privilege, data control

Running a Litigation Practice in the Age of COVID-19

Issues covered include: COVID-19, processes, privacy compliance, remote mediation, electronic hearings

Contemporary Contract Law Issues

Issues covered include: COVID-19, force majeure, frustration, quantum remuit, common law damages

Changes to the Fair Work Act and Modern Awards

Issues covered include: Fair Work Act, Modern Awards, JobKeeper, workplace rights

WHS in a Pandemic: Working from Home and New National Guidelines

Issues covered include: National WHS principles, Safe Work, home as a workplace, mental health

Electronic Family Law Hearings

Issues covered include: electronic hearings, evidence, expectations, procedural rules, recent amendments

CANCELLED: Getting the Best from your Remote Workforce while Managing their Well-Being

How can you get the best out of yourself and your team while working remotely? What are your responsibilities to manage employee well-being? Experts in this field will share their valuable knowledge and experience to ensure you evolve with the changing times. Master how to boost productivity, ensure your team’s mental health is looked after, and gain your mandatory ethics CPD point all in one hour.

Practical Technology Guide for Lawyers in a Physical-Distancing World

Issues covered include video conferencing, electronic signatures, cyber risk, cybercrime, software demonstration, app demonstration, legal technology, Remote workforce, working remotely

Advice for Creating a Child Safe Remote Learning Environment

Insolvency & Leases: New Legislation & Significant Changes

Issues covered include: voluntary administration, receivership, liquidation, Mandatory Code, PPSA, security, guarantees, ipso facto

Effect of COVID-19 on Business Valuations and Family Law Settlements

Issues covered include: COVID-19. business valuation theory, family law perspective, share valuation, questionable business valuations

Don’t Risk a DPN: Reducing Director’s Exposure

Issues covered include: DPN liability, defences, ATO response to COVID-19

Understanding Current Business Valuations

Issues covered include: current business valuables, damages, methods, preparation, review

Ongoing Digital Practice Management

Issues covered include: business processes, cloud based systems, enquiry conversion

Returning to a COVID-19 Safe Workplace: New National WHS Principles

Issues covered include: COVID-19, risk assessment, due diligence

The Mandatory Code of Conduct for Commercial Leasing in QLD

Issues covered include: The Mandatory Code of Conduct, COVID-19 Emergency Response Act 2020, the termination of leases, rent reductions, rent waivers and rent reviews.

Personal Injury Settlements and Insurance Claims During COVID-19

Issues covered include: COVID-19, default superannuation, tax implications

Redundancy, Standing Down and Performance Management During COVID-19

Issues covered include: COVID-19, redundancy, standing down, poor performance, pay cutes

CANCELLED: Immigration Law: New Privacy Risks & Ethical Traps

With evolving privacy and data security standards and constant new disputes and regulatory prosecutions, it’s critical that you understand how privacy laws impact client information and your day-day activities. When does private information become public information and under what circumstances can the right to privacy be waived? How can you ensure privacy law compliance? Plus, explore critical ethical issues you may encounter in today’s immigration law landscape.

School Law: How the New Child Protection Regulations Will Work

The Office of the Children’s Guardian is an independent government agency that works to protect children by promoting and regulating quality, child safe organisations and services. Attend this webinar to hear from the Children’s Guardian on changes made that came into force on 1 March 2020 regarding child safety and its impact on schools.

Visa Cancellations and Refusals: Critical Strategies During COVID-19

Issues covered include: JobKeeper, caveats, cancellation powers and grounds, NOICC

The Mandatory Code of Conduct for Commercial Leasing in VIC

Issues covered include: Mandatory Code of Conduct, COVID-19 Omnibus (Emergency Measures) Act, rent issues, lease terms

School Law: Managing Child Safety Obligations

Issues covered include: child protection risks in light of the recent release of findings of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, child safety obligations in schools, and Child Safe Standards.

School Law: Managing Reputational Risk

Issues covered include: school social media policies, protection from defamation claims, drafting parental codes of conduct, enrolment contracts and disciplinary policies.