Ethics

10 Points in One Day - Your Last Chance

Issues covered include: leasing, conveyancing, property law, tax, PPSA, presentation skills, work-life balance, ethics, digital customer data, commercialising IP, buying and selling a business, insolvency

10 Points in One Day - Your Last Chance!

Issues covered include: Mental Wellbeing of Employees, Creative Thinking , Costs, Disclosure, Legal Profession Uniform Law, Property Witholding Tax, Retail Leasing, Unfair Contract Terms Under the ACL, Family, Trust and Succession Law.

Advanced Commercial Litigation Conference

Issues covered include: Directors, Officers and Corporate Litigation, Hayne Royal Commission, Defamation, Creditors, Insolvency Law Reform, ipso facto, Insolvency Law Reform Act 2016, Trusts Minority Shareholder Disputes with a Corporate Trustee, Mental Health, Contingency Fees, Litigation Funding and Class Actions, Ethical Professional Conduct.

Property Law Conference

Issues covered include: Planning, property, combustible cladding, defects, caretakers, ethics, leasing, tax risks, GST, investment, discretionary trusts, property valuation, development financing, capital gains tax

Advanced Commercial Litigation Conference

Issues covered include: remedies, directors, officers, corporate litigation, shareholder disputes, commercial litigation, proportionate liability, defamation litigation, defamatory, cyber crime, cyber attack, mandatory data breach notification, privacy, litigation funding, class actions, ethics, ethical obligations

Saturday Criminal Conference

Issues covered include: Admissibility of Tendency Evidence Post R v Bauer, Post Sentence Orders under the new Serious Offenders Act 2018, Family Violence in the Criminal Courts, Committal Hearings, DNA Evidence and Crime, Trace DNA, Transfer DNA, Low level DNA, Familial DNA testing, Reduced Legal Aid Funding, Ethics for criminal lawyers.

Personal Injury Conference

Issues covered include: civil claims for institutional abuse, NDIS, workers compensation, psychological injury, negligence, Civil Liability Act, ethics, vicarious trauma, expert witnesses.

Wills and Estates Symposium

Issues covered include: Estate planning, vulnerable beneficiaries, beneficiary, urgent applications, interlocutory applications, enduring powers of attorney, variation of trusts, business succession, death benefit, succession law, ethics, conflicts of interests, testamentary capacity, interview skills, technology, business model, marketing, cost, fixed pricing

Personal Injury Conference

Issues covered include: WorkCover, TAC, claims process, redress claims, general damages, damages awards, aggravated damages, my health record, ethics, psychological, psychometric testing, client costs, solicitor costs

Conveyancing Conference

Issues covered include: Updated Contract of Sale of Real Estate, Estate Agents (Contracts) Regulations 2008, Sale Of Land Act 1962 (VIC), New GST Withholding Regime, residential land notification and reporting requirements, Foreign resident capital gains tax withholding, Residential Annual Vacancy Fee, Vacant Residential Land Tax, insolvency on contractual rights, Insolvency, Ipso Facto Regime and Conveyancing, Default, Rescission and Repudiation, Mortgagee’s Power of Sale, Anti-Money Laundering Issues,

Criminal Law Conference

Issues covered include: domestic violence, family violence, admissibility, bad character, crown witness, media strategies, media comments, mobile phones, computers, search warrant, police seizing, sentencing advisory counsel, managing clients' expectations, difficult clients, committal hearing, ethics for criminal lawyers, ethical issues

Personal Injury Conference

Issues covered include: Civil Liability Act, damages, workers compensation, psychological injury, psychiatric injury, chronic regional pain syndrome, NDIS, NIIS, WorkCover, risk management, personal injury practice, admissibility, expert evidence, ethics, ethical issues

Conveyancing Conference

Issues covered include: strata, redevelopment, tax, compulsory acquisition, notices to perform, mandatory disclosure, off the plan contracts, SMSFs, misleading or deceptive conduct, anti-money laundering

Property Law Conference

Issues covered include: owners corporation, leasing, environmental and planning, Environment Protection Act, SMSF, stamp duty, co-ownership, misrepresentation, misleading conduct, real estate transactions, ethical and professional responsibility, GST, tax issues, state taxes, property valuation

Advanced Commercial Litigation Conference

Issues covered include: banking, superannuation, financial services, tax, jurisdiction, ethics, witnesses, evidence, technology, litigation funding, class actions

Family Law Conference

Issues covered include: parental alienation, child protection, independent children's lawyers, expert evidence, arbitration, financial matters, asset planning, financial settlements, alternative dispute resolution, ethics, client interviews

Succession Law Symposium

Issues covered include: deceased estates, superannuation, family provision applications, urgent and interlocutory applications, mediation, ethics, risk management, capacity, vulnerability

Property Law Conference

Issues covered include: cladding, short-term holiday letting, Airbnb, air space, crane access, planning, heritage, property valuation, development, financing, environment and sustainability, ethics

Public Sector Law Conference

Issues covered include: procurement contracts, cancelled programs or schemes, information requests, sexual harassment, statutory interpretation, data breach, model litigant

10 Points in One Day

Issues covered include: Mediation, heads of agreement, settlement, ipso facto, data, privacy, consumer law, GDPR, consumer data right, property law, employment law, commercialising IP, legal professional privilege, wills, estates, succession law, undue influence, extensions of time, superannuation and estate planning, financial agreements, family violence, domestic violence, property settlement, family law cases

Conveyancing Conference

Issues covered include: REIQ contracts, e-conveyancing, strata, cladding, real estate agent, GST, foreign resident capital gain, stamp duty, state tax, anti-money laundering, AML/CTF, conveyancing disputes, mediation, misleading or deceptive conduct, contracts, sale of land, ethics, ethical obligations

Evidence and Advocacy Forum

Issues covered include: preparation, lay witness, supporting evidence, relevance, admissibility, ethical issues, expert evidence, discretionary rulings, voir dires, disclosure, managing subpoenas, Royal Commissions, compulsory examinations, transcripts, abrogation of privilege, persuasive advocacy, interlocutory applications, urgent applications, mediation, advocacy in mediation

Saturday Criminal Law Symposium

Issues covered include: general deterrence, revenge porn, the De Simoni Principle, evidence admissibility, uncharged offences, crime scenes, cross-examination, dementia, trauma, ethics

Intellectual Property Forum: Reforms, Trends and Strategies

Issues covered include: patents, trade marks, copyright, remedies, IP litigation, due diligence, asset monetisation, governance, ethics

9th Annual Advanced Commercial Litigation Summit Perth

Administrative Law: Migration and its Impact

Commercialising IP: Maximising Value

Issues covered include: IP commercialisation, utility of trade secrets, IP protections, IP due diligence, ethical obligations

Contract Law Conference: Risk Management

Issues covered include: contractual warranties, contractual indemnities, insurance contracts, arbitration clauses, binding arbitration agreements, contracting in the digital age, digital footprints, limitation of liability, Australian consumer law, proportionate liability regimes, ethical considerations, contract drafting, contract tendering, contract negotiation, block chain, smart contracts, multi-party agreements, privacy, cybersecurity

Corporate Roundup: Fraud, Cartels and Bribery Perth

Costs and Billing: CPD Compulsory Units

Issues covered include: Retainer, Compliance, Uniform Law, Fixed fee, Disputes, Costs Recovery, Billing.

Costs and Billing: CPD Core Competency Areas

Issues covered include: flat fee billing, Uniform Law, costs recovery

County Court Practicum: Tips from Judicial Officers Melbourne

CPD Compulsory Areas for Succession Practitioners

Issues covered include: Retainer, Compliance, Uniform Law, Fixed fee, Disputes, Costs Recovery, Billing.

CPD Compulsory Units for All Lawyers on 12 March

Issues covered include: privilege, PR issues, media training, managing difficult colleagues

CPD Compulsory Units for All Lawyers on 22 March

Issues covered include: ethics, public speaking, presentations, client management

CPD Compulsory Units for All Lawyers on 26 March

Issues covered include: client relationships, managing mistakes or oversights, practice management, ethics, professional skills

CPD Compulsory Units for All Lawyers on 6 March

Issues covered include: Cognitive bias, ethical decision making, stress management, practice management, time management

CPD Compulsory Units for All Lawyers on 7 March

Issues covered include: client trust, ethics, blockchain, technology, cyber security, risk management

CPD Core Competency Areas for All Lawyers on 13 March

Issues covered include: cyber security, data breaches, technology, blockchain, cyber risk: hacking, phishing, scamming, ransomware, National Data Breach Scheme.

CPD Core Competency Areas for All Lawyers on 27 March

Issues covered include: time management, creativity, culture and ethics

CPD Core Competency Areas for All Lawyers on 6 March

Issues covered include: financial reports, accounting concepts, difficult colleagues, oversight, inadvertent mistakes

CPD Core Competency Areas for Commercial Litigators

Issues covered include: Technology document review, Commercial disputes, Negotiation, Implied Waiver of Privilege and Inadvertent Disclosure.

CPD Core Competency Areas for Criminal Lawyers

Issues covered include: Independent experts, technology, work life balance, managing clients, ethical issues.

CPD Core Competency Areas for Family Lawyers

Issues covered include: Arbitrate, mediate, arbitration agreement, mediation, alternate dispute resolution, employee in family legal practice, technology, social media, email security, the cloud.

CPD Core Competency Areas for Government Lawyers

Issues covered include: tendering and procurement, workplace investigations, ethical issues

CPD Core Competency Areas for In-House Counsel

Issues covered include: Networking, Self promotion, workplace investigation, ethics, whistleblower, mandatory reporting data breaches and privacy.

CPD Core Competency Areas for Property Lawyers

Issues covered include: Property valuation, GST Withholding Regime, Tax, Ethics misrepresentation, misleading conduct, real estate, valuation reports, conveyancing, residential propety, foreign resident capital gains tax withholding.

CPD Mandatory Core Areas for All Lawyers on 15 March

Issues covered include: Ethics, ethical obligations, conflicts of interest, confidentiality, complaints, communication skills, differentiate your practice, digital challenges, generate leads

CPD Mandatory Core Areas for All Lawyers on 6 March

Issues covered include: undertakings, professional conduct, neuroscience, psychological safety, leadership excellence, digital tools, content creation

CPD Mandatory Core Areas for Government Lawyers

Issues covered include: Fraudulent behaviours, corruption, corrupt conduct, administrative investigations, conflict of interest, model litigant, cost orders

Dealing with Psychiatric Stress Claims

Discrimination Law: This, That, the Other and More Perth

Keep up with key developments in discrimination law and master how to walk over the blazing coals of this hotbed area where you need to be able to respond to any situation quickly, efficiently and with the utmost confidence. When your client calls you with their pressing questions and pleas for guidance you had better be prepared to properly advise them on the spot, so ensure you know precisely where the law stands and how to expertly guide your client to safety.

Intellectual Property Forum: Reforms, Trends and Strategies

Issues covered include: copyright, trademarks, patent law, IP, intellectual property, IP infringements, intangible assets, IP licensing, ethical duties, IP risk, machine learning technology

Litigation Conference: Evidence, Skills and CPD

Issues covered include: client legal privilege, avoiding waiver, inadvertent waiver, lay witness statements, traditional mediation, hybrid mediation, ADR, admissible expert evidence, persuasive expert evidence, legal ethics, ethical duties, risk management, written advocacy, written submissions, improve your advocacy

Mediation Masterclass: Positive Results for Pleased Clients

Issues covered include: mediation strategies, ethics, settlement agreements, advocacy, professional skills

Saturday 10 Points in One Day

Issues covered include: estate disputes, probate applications, family law, discovery, disclosure, mediation, ethics, mental health, dispute resolution, property law, employment law, consumer law, competition law, ipso facto regime, contracts

School Law Summit 2019 Brisbane

Wills and Estates Guide: Family Provision Applications

Issues covered include: family provisions rpactice updates, costs, mediation, ethics

Elder Abuse Legal Symposium

Issues covered include: Guardianship division, VCAT, moral duty, financial elder abuse, ethics, ethical considerations

Family Law Conference

Issues covered include: ALRC, discovery, financial proceedings, disclosure, companies, trusts, partnerships, deceased estate, alternative, restorative justice, mediation, mediator, successful family law practice, costs, billing, growth and development, domestic violence, family violence, trauma, protection orders, parenting orders, evidentiary rules, affidavits, parental alienation, ethics, ethical dilemmas

In-House Counsel Summit

Issues covered include: consumer data right, consumer law, ACCC, penalties, Royal Commission into the Financial Sector, employment law, mental health, whistleblowing, regulatory compliance

In-House Counsel Summit

Issues covered include: Consumer law, ACCC, consumer data right, ICT, IT contracts, privacy, employment, mental health, workplace investigation, unconscious bias

In-House Counsel Summit

Issues covered include: Consumer data right, big data, privacy, mandatory data breach reporting, GDPR, Banking Royal Commission, ACCC, consumer law, ACL, corporate social responsibility, modern slavery, ethics, mental health, practice management, workplace investigation

Contract Law Conference: Risk Management Melbourne

Saturday 10 Points in One Day

Issues covered include: Win and Retain more Clients, Stress Management, Privileged Evidence and Avoiding Inadvertent Waiver, Contract Disputes and Settlement of Litigation, Exclusion, Indemnity and Insurance Clauses, Insolvency Law Reform, Post-employment restraints, Property, Retail and Commercial Leasing.

Trade Marks and Patents Conference

Issues covered include: Technology, Blockchain, WayBack Evidence and Domain names, Directors liability, Quality and financial control, Ethics, manner of manufacture, Infringement, latests cases and developments.

Admissibility of Evidence in Criminal Cases

Issues covered include: Admissibility of expert evidence, High Court and Court of Criminal Appeal, Evidence Act, Admitted facts, Uncontested facts, Disclosure and Privilege, Tendency and Coincidence Evidence.

Wills and Estates: Case Law Updates and Key Skills

With essential skills covered including from the Deputy Probate Registrar plus important recent cases examined such as the recently handed-down High Court case for Wills practitioners by the barrister who acted in the matter, this seminar is the one to attend this year. You will walk away critical knowledge plus indispensable skills covering the compulsory ethics, practice management and professional skills all in one morning.

CPD Required Units for All Lawyers

Issues covered include: complaints, competitive legal market, recover costs by parties acting in person and solicitors acting in person

Current Migration Law Concerns: Practical Answers

Issues covered include: Character decisions, Migration Act, Section 501, Public Interest Criteria and provisions, PIC 4020, Administrative Appeals Tribunal, migration agents, MARA, OMARA, Judicial review, advocacy, unreasonableness and credibility.

10 Point in One Day Parramatta

Issues covered include: conveyancing, strata, leasing, wills and estates, superannuation, mediation, conflicts of interest, privacy, data, bankruptcy, insolvency, employment law, contracts, civil liability, evidence, criminal trials

10 Points in One Day

Issues covered include: Estates litigation, family provision applications, blended families, family law legislative review, ALRC, child protection, tax, capital gains, psychology, problem solving, technology, disruptors, cost orders, ethical implications, cost disclosure, commercial litigation, business sales, contract disputes, dispute resolution clauses, insolvency reforms, Ipso facto

10 Points in One Day - Your Last Chance

Issues covered include: Consumer and competition law, ACCC, employment law, fair work legislation, safe harbour, mental health, wellbeing, conflict of interests, negotiation, mediation, property law, succession law, informal wills, PPSA, PPSR renewals, contracting in the digital age, digital footprints

10 Points in One Day: Private & Commercial Practice

Issues covered include: family law, wills, estates, trusts, insolvency, eTrials, trust deeds, SMSFs, employment law

10 Points in One Day: Government Practice

Issues covered include: data security, tendering, duties, privacy, public interest disclosure, immunity, decision making, AI, information requests

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.

7th Annual 10 CPD Points in One Day - Cairns

A must attend annual event, our 10 CPD Points in One Day is back for its 7th consecutive year. Join accredited specialists, renowned barristers, leading solicitors and a medical expert who will examine the most important issues facing practitioners today, all while gaining your mandatory core area CPD units. Book for the whole day or just the sessions that best meet your needs.

Complex Conveyancing Masterclass

Are you across the countless changes and current issues affecting conveyancing practice in NSW? Have you thought about how options affect conveyancing, or what to do when an off-the-plan disaster or dispute arises? What about the new reforms involving collective sales? Take a deep dive into the details and gain insights into all these issues and more, including analysis of critical tax changes and multi-tenant and strata building issues, all while nailing down that crucial ethics point early in the CPD year

I am Woman - Hear me Roar

"A woman with a voice is, by definition, a strong woman." —Melinda Gates In this current climate, it is more important than ever that women in the workforce have a voice. Women in law, in particular, face different challenges at times, and to succeed they often must overcome many other hurdles. Come and listen to women at the very top of their profession who will navigate you through career advancement, professional goals and presentation skills and making it to the top on your own terms.

Medical Treatment Law: Understanding The Challenges

The Medical Treatment Planning and Decisions Act 2016 represents a seismic shift in Victoria’s medical treatment decision making landscape. If your work is at all related to healthcare, medical treatment, aged care, elder law or the health industry in general, it’s essential that you have a firm understanding of the new framework established for medical treatment decision makers.

CPD Core Competency Areas for Workers Compensation Lawyers

This program is designed with workers compensation lawyers in mind and will enable you to gain your CPD core competency area points while being brought up to speed on the latest case law and legislative updates. You will pick up practical tips to gain an edge for your clients, develop your practice, manage conflicts between employers and insurers and avoid ethical pitfalls that can trip up your matters and your practice.

4th Annual Workers Compensation Conference

Hear from Deputy President Michael Snell, WIRO and an esteemed panel of specialists on key developments, legislative amendments and other hot issues facing in workers compensation. You will pick up practical tips to gain an edge for your clients, develop your practice, master rules of evidence in your witness statements, get an update ILARS and WIRO and learn how to avoid ethical pitfalls that can trip up your matters and your practice.

CPD Compulsory Units for In-House Counsel

Being in-house counsel isn’t what it used to be. You can’t just be a lawyer. You have to be a leader, a strategist, an influencer. You have to be prepared to manage the legal and political ramifications of internal investigations, You have to complete a seemingly ever-growing number of tasks while meeting heightened expectations and demands all while fulfilling your ethical obligations in an environment that can make doing so more than challenging.

Complex Conveyancing

Have you analysed the new Standard Contract Editions and the new ipso facto regime? Have you mastered the nuances of the new GST withholding regime and other recent tax changes? Are you across the complexities of purchasing through SMSFs? And have you fully considered the many ethical disasters that can quickly torpedo a deal and sink a practice? Take a deep dive into the details and gain insights into all these issues and more, all while nailing down that crucial ethics unit for the CPD year.

CPD Required Units for Family Lawyers

This seminar is the ideal way to earn your required CPD points along with gaining excellent, detailed and practical insights into the financial area of family law. Gain a greater understanding in how to deal with difficult clients and how to manage conflict and complaints. Learn practical tips from the experts and return to your practice ready to apply them immediately.

Women in Public Law: Leadership, Influence, Advancement

Over half the people entering the legal profession today are women, yet they do not face a level playing field in the legal industry. To succeed they must overcome many challenges. This conference brings together some of the most accomplished and inspiring women in public law who will explain how to build the public sector career you want and achieve your professional goals on your terms.

4th Annual Workers Compensation Conference

Our 4th Annual Workers Compensation Conference has been designed to provide you with the latest legislative updates and other developments, while enabling you to gain your CPD core competency area points on issues specific to your practice. You will pick up practical tips to gain an edge for your clients, develop your practice, and learn how to avoid ethical pitfalls that can trip up your matters and your practice.

CPD Compulsory Units - Recorded in September 2019, NSW

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

10 CPD Points in One Day in Cairns

Don’t have time to earn your CPD points in dribs and drabs over the course of a year? This program is designed just for you, to give you the need-to-know updates for your practice and all of your CPD points, including the compulsory units, in one go. At one place, in one day. If you don’t need the whole day, just book the session you want. It’s as simple as that. There’s something here for everyone with 11 different areas of law all covered in one day.

Be Inspired: Women in Law

Issues covered include: leadership skills, ethical and professional responsibility, challenges, strategies, gender bias, excel and thrive

Litigation Issues For All Government Lawyers

Issues covered include: a modern government litigant, ethics, evidence from public sector witnesses, privileges

Personal Injury Conference

Issues covered include: serious injuries, limitation of actions, historical sexual abuse, medical negligence, tac update, trial preparation and strategy, ethics, dealing with an injured client

Information Law for Government

Issues covered include: data breach, FOI and privacy , producing court orders, obligations, ethics

CPD Core Areas for Workers Compensation Lawyers

Issues covered include: building a practice, prosecute and/or defend a stress claim, ethics.

Retail and Commercial Leasing Conference

On the surface leasing is so simple. A tenant forks over some cash. A landlord gives them a place to setup shop in return. What could go wrong? Well…A LOT. Underestimate the intricacies of pre-lease agreements, owners corporation issues, and tax concerns? Problems. Mislead a party, dispute a valuation or breach or forfeit a lease? Problems. Ensure you’re not caught out by these potentially disastrous situations by shoring up your knowledge and skills at this wildly useful and practical conference.

Complex Conveyancing

Are you across the significant changes and current issues affecting conveyancing practice in VIC? Have you analysed the many foreign client issues impacting conveyancing or mastered the nuances of the new GST withholding regime and other recent tax changes? What about the role of valuations in property transactions or the current state of the property market at large? Take a deep dive into the details and gain insights into all these issues and more, all while nailing down that crucial ethics point

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

Public Sector Accountability, Disclosure and Conduct

Issues covered include: public sector and government, legislative reforms, human rights, public interest disclosure, work health and safety

CPD Required Units for Family Lawyers

Issues covered include: family law, ethics, client complaints, SMSF splitting in settlements, family law documents, binding family law agreements

CPD Core Competency Areas for All Lawyers

Issues covered include: mental health, ethics, confidentiality, work health and safety, client expectations, leveraging technology

CPD Compulsory Units for All Lawyers

Issues covered include: client relationships, conflict of interest and confidentiality, efficiency, effectiveness and profitability

Workers Compensation Conference

Issues covered include: industrial relations, workers compensation, core CPD points, case law update and guidelines

CPD Compulsory Units for In-House Counsel: Managing the Greatest Risks

Issues covered include: preventing and dealing with damage to your organisation's brand or reputation, data breach, managing stress and mental health in the workforces

Workers Compensation Conference 2019

Issues covered include: workers compensation, mental harm, return to work plans, income protection recovery and subrogation, contributory negligence, uniform law costs, case preparation, ethical marketing

Credit Law Conference

Issues covered include: credit and finance law, responsible lending, banking, financial regulation and trends

Foundational Government Lawyers’ Training

Issues covered include: public service and government sector challenges for lawyers

Women in Public Law

Issues covered include: women in law, public law, government, leadership, career progression, employment issues

10 Points in One Day Parramatta

Issues covered include: Retail and Commercial Leasing Review , Estate Disputes Case Law Update: Key Decisions , Conveyancing and Strata Law Update , Taking, Recording and Retaining Instructions for Wills , Property Law Rundown: the Rest of the Developments you Need to Know , Discovery and Disclosure in Family Law, Family Law Case Review, Business Succession Planning from a Lawyer’s Perspective , Your Duties to Your Client, the Court and the Profession as an Advocate, 2020: Practice Management in the Digita

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

Property Law Conference - Recorded in March 2020, NSW

Issues covered include: property law developments, purchasing land, sunset date clauses, defects, cladding, property tax, property market, easements, covenants, ethical dilemmas.

In-House Counsel Conference - Recorded in March 2020, NSW

Issues covered include: employment law, work health and safety, competition and consumer law, penalties in regulatory proceedings, contractual risk, legal professional privilege, unconscious bias, discrimination, misconduct.

10 Points in One Day: Private and Commercial Practice

Issues covered include: family law, estate planning, testamentary trusts, asset protection, foreign trusts, solicitor disclosure obligations, ethical dilemmas, communication skills, contract law, strata update, procedures in litigation and property law.

10 Points in One Day: Government Practice

Issues covered include: Government cancellation, health and safety, privacy risks, dispute resolution, obligations in litigation, handling complaints, public interest disclosure, data security, duty of care.

CPD Compulsory Units for All Lawyers on 5 March

Issues covered include: ethical dilemmas, difficult people, presentation skills

Litigation Issues for All Government Lawyers

Issues covered include: The Model of a Modern Government Litigant, Bound by Ethics: The Model Litigant as Prosecutor, Preparing Public Sector Witnesses Required to Give Evidence, Understanding and Working with Privileges Applying to Government

CPD Mandatory Core Areas: Contracts and the Workplace

Issues covered include: Termination of Contracts: Proper Drafting Skills, Workplace Harassment Training, Don’t Fall Foul of Folau

In-House Counsel Conference

Issues covered include: Penalties in Regulatory Proceedings, Competition and Consumer Law Update, Employment Law Update, Strengthening Your Organisation’s Legal Compliance Regime, Mental Health in the WorkplacePreventing Damage to Your Organisation’s Brand or Reputation, Effective Communications with the Board, Legal Professional Privilege

Family Law Conference: Settling the Asset Pool

Issues covered include: Tax Consequences in Splitting the Assets of the Family Trust, Business and Company, Significant Decisions, Trends and Legislative Amendments Relevant to and from the Family and Federal Circuit Courts, Inheritances and Property Settlements, Bankruptcy Impact on Family Court Proceedings Under S60 Bankruptcy Act, SMSFs: Issues to Consider Pre-Relationship, at Separation and on Property Settlement on DivorceEvidence: Discovery and Admissibility vs Reliability, Costs in the Family Court

Wills and Estates Symposium

Issues covered include: recent cases, informal will applications, taxation of deceased estates, new guardianship & administration laws, financial agreements under Family Law Act 1975, managing a wills and estates practice, Baker v Baker, client's capacity

Personal Injury Conference

Issues covered include: Case Review and Recent Developments in Psychological and Psychiatric Injury, Damages Update, Public Liability: Recreational Activities and Exclusion Clauses, How to Run a Successful Conciliation and Negotiation in a Personal Injury CasePractical Financial Management for Your Clients, Cost Provisions, Ethics in Personal Injury Matters

Advanced Commercial Litigation Conference

Issues covered include: The Litigation Landscape in the Royal Commission Aftermath, Claims in Quantum Meruit, Trustees: Suing and Being Sued, Indemnity Cost Orders, Clients and Capacity: A Practical Ethics Guide, Legal Technology and Litigation, Effective Negotiation Strategies for Commercial Disputes

CPD Mandatory Core Areas: Expert Guide to Legal Costing

Issues covered include: costs disclosures, recovering costs, determination on costs

Conveyancing Conference

Issues covered include: Eligible Data Breaches under the Privacy Act, Eligible Data Breach Process and Response, How to Prevent an Eligible Data Breach,

Contract Law Conference

Issues covered include: Conveyancing Case Law, Legislation and REIQ Contract Update, Real Estate Deposits, Environment and Planning Update, How to Deal with Changing Circumstances for a Party Between Contracting and Settlement, Dealing with SMSFs in Property Transactions, Avoiding Mistakes at Settlement, Verification of Identity, Property Valuation, Advisory, Development and Financing"

CPD Mandatory Core Areas for All Lawyers on 19 March

Issues covered include: Negotiation and Mediation, Improving IT Security, Ethical Behaviour Outside of the

Criminal Law Symposium

Issues covered include: unreasonable verdicts, psychological reports, police powers, sexual offences law reform, cyber forensics, ethics refresher, client complaints

Property Law Conference 2020

Issues covered include: Planning and Environment Update, Property Law Developments: Covenants, Contracts, Body Corporate and Community Management, GST and Land Tax, Practice & Procedure in the Land Court, Expertly Drafting Easements and Covenants, Professional Obligations and Ethical Duties, Financial Challenges Created by the Nature of Property Law Matters

10 Points in One Day

"Issues covered include: Wills and Estates, Developments in Family Law, Financial Agreements under the Family Law Act 1975 and their Impact on Estate Planning, Drafting Affidavits, Legal Ethics, Work Smarter, Not Harder in Your Practice, Property Law Developments: Covenants, Contracts, Following and Tracing Property, Contract Law Recent Case Update, Lessons from Employment Law: To Litigate or not to Litigate?

10 Points in One Day – Last Chance

Issues covered include: Tax and Trusts, Employment Law , IP Issues for Non-IP Lawyers, Franchising Update, Innovation in Law, Negotiation Skills , Common Professional Conduct Complaints, Family Law Case Update, Property Law, Contracts, Ipso Facto Clauses and the Personal Property Securities Act, Contract Law Review, Estate Planning and Asset Protection

CPD Core Competency Areas for All Lawyers on 5 March

Issues covered include: Employability Skills , Professional Courtesy, Practice Management Basics, profit

CPD Core Competency Areas for Personal Injury Lawyers

Issues covered include: Assessment of Costs in the District and Supreme Courts, How to Prosecute and/or Defend a Stress Claim, Ethical Considerations

CPD Core Competency Areas for Family Lawyers

Issues covered include: Ethical Issues in Adoption, Parenting and Surrogacy Applications, Costs in the Family Court of Western Australia and Impacts of the New Uniform Laws, Witnesses

CPD Core Competency Areas for All Lawyers on 11 March

Issues covered include: Practice Management, Building a Prosperous Law Firm, Negotiating and Drafting Settlement Agreements, Duties of a Solicitor

Women in Law: The Power of Potential

Issues covered include: Realising your Potential, Mentoring, Negotiation, Advocacy

CPD Core Competency Areas for Property Lawyers

Issues covered include: costs, Uniform Laws, Property Transaction, ethical issues

Contract Disputes Forum

Avoiding contract disputes requires a bullet proof contract in the first place. That can be easier said than done, but with this line-up of experts you’ll be prepared to get it right the first time. Plus, should things turn sideways despite best efforts, you’ll gain the knowledge to navigate any issues involving enforcing unsigned contracts, online contracting, dispute resolution clauses, termination, damages and more. Plus, gain your ethics point for the year.

Litigation Issues for All Government Lawyers

Issues covered include: litigation, government, Modern Government Litigant, prosecuter, witness evidence

CPD Core Competency Areas for Government Lawyers

Issues covered include: Ethical Challenges, communication, probity

CANCELLED: CPD Core Competency Areas for Criminal Lawyers

Do you need your compulsory CPD points? Would you like to learn relevant skills that you can use in your practice? Are you interested in hearing from Perth’s top criminal law practitioners? We have you covered with this intensive and in-depth criminal law CPD program. Learn how to effectively and efficiently work with independent experts. Hone your ethics skills. Get practical tips on how to manage counsel. You are bound to leave this session with a refreshed and elevated skill set.

In-House Counsel: CPD Core Competency Areas

Issues covered include: Corporate Governance, Risk, Duties, Legal Compliance Regime, Legal Professional Privilege

CPD Core Competency Areas for All Lawyers on 25 March

Issues covered include: Work/Life Balance, Conflicts of Interest, Financial Statements

Wills and Estates: CPD Core Competency Areas

Issues covered include: Family provision claims, family provision hearings, commencing family provision claim, evidence, expert evidence, claims, witness, estate practice,

Trust Accounting: Ethics, Practice Management and Professional Skills

How well are you prepared for your trust accounts audit? Which red flags should you watch out for to avoid potential fraud? Experts from the Legal Practice Board and trust account auditors will provide you with critical tips to help you prepare for your annual trust account examination.

CPD Core Competency Areas for Commercial Litigators

Issues covered include: Ethics, expert witness, obligation, cyber security, risk management for lawyers, dispute funding for litigation, litigation funding

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.

Government Law Conference

Issues covered include: public interest disclosures, whistleblower protection, statutory interpretation, privacy law, consumer law, social media, model litigant, procurement, public sector witnesses, privilege,

CANCELLED: Trust Account Risks and Regulation

With regulation of the legal profession moving to the Legal Services Board and the deadline to finalise your trust account just around the corner, this seminar comes at just the right time for practitioners responsible for maintaining a trust account. Protect yourself, your practice and your clients by taking the time to examine the key elements, regulations and best practices related to trust accounts so that you and your practice remain lock-step in line with every requirement.

CPD Compulsory Units for All Lawyers on 5 March

Issues covered include: Reputational Risk , Confidentiality, Privilege and Waiver, Legal Costs

Family Law Conference: Splitting the Asset Pool

Issues covered include: Tax Consequences , Family Trust, SMSFs, Family Money, Inheritances, Loans, Gifts, Bankruptcy, Professional Negligence , Evidence, Discovery and Admissibility, Reliability

Property Law Conference

Issues covered include:Sale of Land Act 1962 , Building Defects, Cladding, Planning & Development, Owners Corporation, Retail and Commercial Leasing, Insolvency, ethics, costs

CPD Compulsory Units for All Lawyers on 17 March

Issues covered include: Ethics, Client’s Money, Time, Illegal Requests, Practice Management & Business Skills, Negotiation, Mediation Skills, Polarised Disputes, Capacity, Integrity

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

Intellectual Property Conference

Issues covered include:IP Civil Search Orders, Trade Marks, Copyright, Design Law, Commercial Transactions, Patent Law and Practice, Interlocutory Injunctions in IP litigation, Industry 4.0 Principles

Personal Injury Conference

Issues covered include: Public Liability, Psychiatric Injury, Coroners Court Trends, Damages, Medical Panels, Client Capacity, Civil Procedure Regime, Financial Advice and Funds Management

Criminal Law Symposium

Issues covered include:Sentencing, Post Sentence Supervision Orders, R v Pell, Defacto Reversal of the Burden of Proof in Sex Cases, Forensic DNA Databases, Dementia, Ethical Issues, Practice Management & Business Skills

Advanced Commercial Litigation Conference

Issues covered include: Fiduciary Duties, Insolvent Trustee Companies, Proportionate Liability, Commercial Class Action Litigation, client Integrity, Complex Litigation , Misleading Conduct

Saturday 10 Points in One Day

Issues covered include:Family Law Case Update, Inheritance, Estate Disputes, Privilege, Briefing Experts, Client Feedback, Practice Management & Business Skills, Advising an Elderly Client, Privacy and Data Protection, Insolvency Update, Employment Law Disputes, Commercial Dispute Resolution, Contracts, Ipso Facto Clauses and the PPSA

Conveyancing Conference

Issues covered include:The Native Title Claim Scene in Victoria, Indigenous Land Use Agreements, Compensation of Cultural and Economic Loss of Native Title, Native Title Compensation, Intersection Between Native Title and the Victorian Treaty Process

CPD Compulsory Units for All Lawyers on 26 March

Issues covered include: NewLaw, Wellbeing in the Virtual and Physical Office Environment, Data Breaches

CPD Compulsory Units for All Lawyers on 30 March

Issues covered include: Conflicts of Interest, Managing Health and Safety Obligations in Your Practice, How to Be a Positive Problem Solver in a Dispute

10 Points in One Day: Your Last Chance!

Issues covered include:Heads of Agreement, Settlements and Release Clauses in Commercial Disputes, Insolvency and Bankruptcy Fundamentals, PPSA, Wellbeing in the Virtual and Physical Office Environment, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Tax & Business Structures, Professional Skills, Practice Management & Business Skills, Creative Thinking, Property Law Case Update, Trusts, the Settled Land Act, Estate Disputes Case Law Update, Family Law Developments

Migration Law Symposium

Issues covered include: AAT Appeals, Digital footprint, building your brand, professional misconduct, family visas, partner visas, health issues, skilled migration, independent and sponsored visas, Enhanced Integrity Act.

Personal Injury Conference 2020 - Recorded In March 2020, NSW

"Issues covered include: workers compensation, psychological injury, common law, medico-legal, vicarious trauma, quantifying claims, online court system, financial advice, funds management, ethical considerations

CPD Compulsory Units for All Lawyers on 10 March

Issues covered include: conflicts of intrest, dispute resolution, litigation project management

Intellectual Property Conference - Recorded on March 2020, NSW

Issues covered include: licensing, competition, patents, software patents, copyright law, disputes, technology, enhancing your practice

Succession Law Symposium - Recorded in March 2020, NSW

Issues covered include: COA decisions, quantum, family provision, estate administration, estate taxation, discovery, distressed clients

Government Law Conference 2020

Issues covered include:open government, open data, procurement, public interest disclosures, data use, data sharing, modern slavery, duties of government lawyers, wellbeing

Conveyancing Conference

Issues covered include: strata title, off the plan contracts, mandatory disclosure, cladding, insolvency, recent cases, economy, tax update, risk management, ethical risks.

Advanced Commercial Litigation Conference

Issues covered include: defamation, unfair contracts, unconscionable conduct, insolvency, Corporations Law, unusual costs, stress, mental health, expert evidence.

Business Sales: Legal Issues & Skills

Issues covered include: IP, CGT Small Business Concessions, restraints of trade, due diligence, franchises, valuations, ethical obligations, negotiation skills

Criminal Law Symposium

Issues covered include: Local Court, Sexual Assault trials, clients with mental health impairments, Improperly obtained evidence, judicial bias, judicial bullying, individual dilemmas, proactive litigation

10 Points On A Saturday

Issues coverd include: estate disputes, family law, insolvency, bankruptcy, difficult people, coss disclosure, dispute resolution, insurance and indemnity clauses, property law, IP, employment law

Family Law Conference

Issues covered include: recent cases, unrealised tax liabilities, tax implications, interim financial relief, sperm donors, arbitration, costs, ethical considerations, suspicious documents

CPD Compulsory Units for All Lawyers on 20 March

Issues covered include: client legal privilege, interest based negotiation, data breach

CPD Compulsory Units for All Lawyers on 24 March

Issues covered include: social media use, communication skills, difficult clients, online clients

Litigation Issues for All Government Lawyers

Issues covered include: model government litigants, privileges, immunities, public sector witnesses

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: Costs and Billing for All Lawyers

Issues covered include: costs determinations, recovering costs, costs disclosure

Directors & Officers: Know the Duties

"Issues covered include: ethics, duties in practice, WHS obligations, indemnities and insurance

10 Points in One Day: Your Last Chance

Issues covered include: property law, tax law, family law cases, estate disputes, professional courtesy, healthy mindset, making, accepting and rejecting offers

10 CPD Points in One Day

Issues covered include:family law, wills and estates, capacity, elderly, elder abuse, proofing clients and witnesses, effective presentations, financial reports, Intellectual property, contract disputes, dispute resolution, business sale

Trade Marks and Patents Conference 2020

Issues covered include: Chinese Trade Mark Update, new Chinese Trade Mark regulations, bad faith, hearings before Registrar of Trade Marks, Trade Mark ownership, Assignment of unregistered trade marks, unregistered assignments, evidence of first use and the Wayback machine, style name, difference between a style name and a trade mark, use of trade mark, trade mark remedies, ethics for trade mark attorneys, ethics for patent attorney, patentable subject matter, what is manner of manufacture, computer and/

Trade Marks and Patents Conference

Issues covered include: infringement defences, good faith, use of own name, evidence trade use

In-House Litigation: Regulatory Disputes, Damages, Costs & Privilege

Issues covered include: damages, undertakings, corporate litigation, legal professional privilege, online dispute resolution, regulatory disputes, ASIC, AFCA, in-house counsel

CPD Compulsory Units: Over Lunch, Over 3 Weeks

Protect your organisation & your clients from new data breach risks running rampant since the pandemic began. Avoid ethical risks in an increasingly online legal world. Gain a step by step guide on how to run your practice efficiently and effectively through technology. Earn your CPD core area units while updating your knowledge of some of the most critical recent developments in a legal industry that’s been turned on its head these past few months.

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 Core Competency Areas for All Lawyers

Explore the high risk hot spots for breaches in your role by examining recent cases and investigating underlying principles. Protect yourself and your practice by making sure that you have the right skills for costs for a healthy lawyer/client relationship. Gain in depth knowledge on internal control procedures for operating your trust account and your obligations.

Property Transactions 101

Issues covered include: conveyancing, eConveyancing, PEXA, ATO, Strata Titles Act, warranties, ARNECC, property sale, rescission notices

Property Transactions 101: COVID-19 & Beyond

Issues covered include: pre-contract preparation, conveyancing, conveyancing disputes, GST considerations, commercial, residential

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.

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.

10 CPD Points in One Day in Cairns

Don’t have time to earn your CPD points in dribs and drabs over the course of a year? This program is designed to give you the need-to-know updates for your practice and all of your CPD points, including the compulsory units, in one go. All at one place, all in one day. Attend the full program or just book the session you want. It’s as simple as that.

CPD Compulsory Units: Over Lunch, Over 3 Weeks

Work through the policies and practices you need to prevent or manage sexual harassment in the workplace and the many related legal, professional and ethical risks. Gain a step by step guide to improving your practice’s IT security to prevent increasing privacy and data breach risks for law firms. Learn how to maximise your productivity and efficiency by managing stress and work/life balance. Earn your CPD core area units while skilling up on some of the most critical recent issues facing lawyers.

A Guide to Navigating Sexual Harassment Issues in the Legal Workplace

Work through the policies and practices you need to prevent or manage sexual harassment in the workplace and the many related legal, professional and ethical risks.

Women in Law: Overcoming Harassment, Discrimination & Bias

Attend to be educated, motivated, and empowered. Sexual harassment, discrimination & gender bias in the legal profession are being acknowledged and discussed like never before, but the truth is that real change continues to be slow to come. Gain frank, honest & real-world insights into how you can navigate the challenges facing women in law. From dealing with misconduct to career changes, to leadership, our panel will share how you can take action to guide your career in the direction you want it to go.

Criminal Law Conference 2020

Don’t miss this comprehensive examination of the latest criminal law developments from an esteemed panel including a District Court Judge. Explore psychological reports on child behaviours in sexual assault cases, the admissibility of evidence related to a complainant’s sexual experience, intensive correction orders, trial directions, & mental illness. The afternoon focuses on CPD core areas with an expert panel of accredited specialists covering cross examinations, ethics & more.

In-House Counsel: CPD Compulsory Units

Gain in-depth guides to 3 critically important issues facing in-house counsel today while earning your core CPD units. Meet your duties in staying on top of employee mental health in a time of change & uncertainty. Master how to analyse a company’s financial position to minimise the legal & business risks arising when in-house counsel are asked to weigh in on a commercial transaction. Finally, learn how to utilise data, analytics & AI to keep up with your industry peers in this increasingly important area.

CPD Compulsory Units for All Lawyers

Gain practical guides for 3 of the most urgent issues facing legal practices today while earning your CPD core area units for the year. Stay on top of the latest employment law issues that will have a significant impact on your practice & your clients. Brace yourself for the risks related to out of hours conduct, including online activities and working remotely. Finally, gain a thorough understanding of how to understand and analyse financial reports at a time when those skills are as critical as ever.

Migration Law: The Latest Issues and Challenges

Work through the most important issues you’ll face in migration law right now including an update on critical skills for TSS visas, guidance on character and public interest criteria, appealing visa cancellations and best practice ethics. Join a panel of expert practitioners with this half-day programme and gain valuable insights so that you’re ready for any matter and square away your ethics point for the year.

Estate Administration and Probate Proceedings

Delve deep into complex applications for letters of administration, including dealing with limited grants of representation & resolving contested applications. Examine key learnings from contested estate proceedings & key takeaways from the latest cases. Master how to plan for estate administration, including how to deal with jurisdictional, executor & tax considerations. Finally, gain your ethics point while considering your duties in advising estate administration clients.

CPD Compulsory Units for Personal Injury Lawyers

Hone your skills in running an effective, efficient and paperless practice. Gain practical guidance for working with clients who have experienced trauma. Explore ethical issues for personal injury lawyers. Designed specifically for personal injury lawyers, attend this webinar to earn all the mandatory ethics, professional skills and practice management points before the end of the calendar year.

In-House Counsel Conference

213N06: Face the many significant changes & new risks facing in-house counsel by arming yourself with timely updates & strategies. Consider how to handle financial & insolvency risks in a tight market. Enhance your insurance law knowledge & tactics. Examine significant defamation reforms. Catch up on new health & safety risks & obligations. Explore legal & tax issues involving contractors. Gain your core CPD points while examining ethics, bullying, wellbeing, technology, & reputation risks.

Commercial Litigation Conference 2021

213N20: Gain high level updates & strategies related to the key areas commercial litigators need to be on top of in 2021. Master how to navigate insolvency disputes. Examine game changing defamation law reforms. Explore how to handle the onslaught of insurance litigation following COVID-19. Be prepared for the many consumer law claims facing litigators right now. Understand contract termination disputes. Gain your core CPD points while examining case valuations, ethics, & working with experts.

Property Law Conference

213N05: Whatever property problem your clients bring your way this coming year, this comprehensive program will prepare you. Strata, conveyancing, FIRB, government reform, cladding, tax, easements, covenants, technology, new legislation, new cases: Sydney’s leading experts have you covered. Gain all the updates you need in each of these key areas and more, plus lock down your core area CPD points.

Construction Law Symposium

213N07: Your practice needs to keep up with rapid change in the construction industry. Come along to hear a carefully selected panel of speakers explore the latest developments, trends and changes in the building industry. Explore the latest cases and hear in depth presentations on major new developments in liability, security of payment, legislation, tendering, procurement, safety, bankruptcy, insolvency, long life warranties and more.

Conveyancing Conference

213N19: When a problem arises involving strata law, off the plan considerations, building issues, environment and planning, defects, tax, risk management, ethics or other property pitfalls, you need (1) information and (2) a strategy. This practical conference delivers both with a comprehensive breakdown of what you need to know right now and into the next year. Plus, gain your CPD core area points for the year.

Succession Law Symposium 2021

213N16: Make it easy on yourself by making this your one stop shop for everything you need for your wills and estates practice this CPD year. Review recent cases in informal wills, family provision, and probate. Gain insights on elder law issues, asset protection, estate planning and so much more. Attend the full day to earn your compulsory CPD units with unique sessions for wills and estates lawyers.

CPD Compulsory Units for All Lawyers – 9 March

213N14: 2020 has reminded practitioners of some of the most important issues that need to be front of mind. Join an expert panel as they explore strategies to developing a healthy mindset for conducting a legal practice, the risks and ethical problems associated with social media use for lawyers, and how to interpret financial reports at a time when those skills are more critical than ever.

CPD Compulsory Units for All Lawyers – 4 March 2021

213N09: Wary of traps in your obligations regarding privilege? Grappling with how to be an effective leader and trusted adviser? Don’t let these challenges side-track your career path. Hear from a stellar lineup of leading practitioners and master the skills needed to effectively deal with each of these issues all while gaining your CPD compulsory units for the year.

CPD Compulsory Units Over Lunch, Over 3 Weeks

Need to square your CPD compulsory units for the year but can’t seem to find the time? Take advantage of this convenient and practical lunchtime web series where you can acquire your CPD units and bolster your practice once a week at lunchtime and online. Hear from engaging experts on the latest disciplinary issues and cases, how to manage conflicts of interests, the skills you need to successfully negotiate a deal, and how to protect your practice from cyber threats which have increased over the last year.

Latest Disciplinary Issues and Lawyers Acting in Conflict of Interest

It is crucial that lawyers are up to date on the latest ethical and disciplinary issues in 2021. Join Chris Ryall, Barrister at Maritime Chambers and examine recent disciplinary cases and the lessons to be learnt. You will examine how to manage conflicts of interests, the common scenarios practitioners face and the options you can apply. Walk away with tips and solutions you can immediately incorporate in your practice.

10 Points in One Day Parramatta 2021

212P01: In its 8th year, the Parramatta 10 Points in One Day Program offers you insights from the industry’s front-line practitioners. You don’t have to travel to the CBD to gain updates in all the current topics and achieve your compulsory CPD units. Attend the full program or choose only the sessions most relevant to your practice.

Advanced Evidence and Advocacy Masterclass

212N08: Master strategies for ensuring your expert evidence is admissible and for working with conclave and concurrent expert evidence. Consider admissibility issues in contract and tort disputes. Gain an advanced refresher on implied waiver and inadvertent disclosure of privileged material. Plus, learn valuable advocacy skills in interlocutory and urgent applications, tactics around objections, and finding success at mediation, all from some of Sydney’s foremost advocates.

CPD Compulsory Units for All Lawyers – 23 March 2021

213N38: The legal side of things is just one aspect of a successful practice. In order to thrive you also need to know how to position your services to win and maintain online clients, how to respond to crises and personal or firm public relations nightmares and how to deal with complaints and your disclosure obligations. Don’t miss the opportunity to learn from industry experts and practitioners about some of the best practices that can make or break a career or practice.

CPD Compulsory Units for All Lawyers – 19 March 2021

213N35: A truly practical afternoon to assist you with your practice no matter the size or how long you have been practicing law. Want to master your presentation style and delivery? Need to understand the latest ethical issues for lawyers in 2021? How about strategies to deal with difficult colleagues? Give yourself the extra skills to move forward in your legal career and with your personal practice with this informative seminar, all while gaining your core area CPD points for the year.

Intellectual Property Conference

213N15: Chase the cutting edge of IP by immersing yourself in the latest trends and updates in trade mark issues and trends, copyright reform, patent cases and innovation patents, design reform, artificial intelligence innovations and infringement, and IP rights. Make sure your first stop is this highly anticipated annual IP conference so you stay ahead of the competition. Attend the full day to earn your compulsory CPD units with unique sessions designed especially for IP lawyers.

Personal Injury Conference

213N11: Spend the morning with our experts to obtain key updates in public liability, workers compensation, psychological injury, the medical perspective on permanent impairment and developments in claims for malicious prosecution and wrongful arrest. Stay for the afternoon’s CPD compulsory session, created with the personal injury lawyer in mind, so that you’ll become CPD compliant while gaining valuable skills and practical takeaways on mediation, ethics, and enhancing your practice.

Costs and Billings for All Lawyers: Your CPD Compulsory Units

Protect yourself and your practice by making sure that you have the right skills in your costs and billing toolkit. Gain tips on improving costs recovery in litigation, examine lessons from recent case law and ensure you’re across your obligations regarding cost disclosures and ethical billing. Don’t miss out on squaring away your CPD compulsory units for the year and brushing up on your knowledge of costs in one afternoon. WEB213N42

Criminal Law Symposium

213N22: Don’t miss your opportunity to hear directly from a District Court Judge and catch up on all the most relevant topics in criminal law. Examine recent decisions of the High Court, duty of disclosure by prosecution and police, and how to navigate the new sexual assault laws and regulatory prosecutions. Plus, gain your core CPD units in issues of paramount relevance to criminal practitioners. You’ll leave equipped with the information and skills your clients will expect of you.

Immigration Law Symposium

213N32: Join a panel of Accredited Immigration Law specialists to examine a myriad of topics covering current immigration concerns: the practical impacts of the travel ban and travel exemption requirements on family and partner visas, character cancellations & refusals, criminal law issues in migration matters, other visas concerns and related reforms. Attend the full day to earn your compulsory CPD units with unique sessions delivered and designed especially for lawyers and migration agents.

Family Law Conference

213N27: Gain insights & practical guidance from a stellar line-up of family law practitioners. Understand what is in & out of the asset pool; the weight of contributions; and the impacts of tax liabilities and insolvency on financial settlements. Earn your core CPD units by mastering how to set aside existing orders and introduce new evidence; considering ethical obligations of disclosure, and learning how to recognise and deal with clients, opponents & colleagues displaying signs of mental illness.

10 Points on a Saturday

213N23: Sure it’s a Saturday, but once you are done, you really are well and truly done. This day will be time well spent and won’t cut into your work week. Take the plunge, wear what you like, come and hear the latest issues you need to catch up on, and get it all done in one fell swoop.

10 Points in One Day: Your Last Chance

If you have left it to the last minute, do not despair. All your CPD points are taken care of right here. Featuring 10 timely topics hand-picked to cover some of the most crucial areas for commercial lawyers, you’ll gain all the CPD you need and bolster your practice in one efficient, information-packed day. Attend the full day or just the sessions relevant to you and complete your CPD with a lineup of excellent speakers covering the most important topics you need to know. 213N50

CPD Compulsory Units for All Lawyers - 3 March 2021

WEB213V04: As the market becomes increasingly competitive it’s critical that you ensure you have the skills to succeed. Join our stellar lineup of specialists as they walk you through the skills you need regarding use and abuse of privilege, holding effective conversations with your staff and perfecting legal your writing skills – all while gaining your core CPD units for the year.

Saturday 10 Points in One Day

WEB213V22: 10 presentations, 10 points. Featuring pre-eminent and leading silks, barristers and solicitors, you will gain insights and practical guidance you can utilise in your everyday practice while gaining all of your CPD points without missing a day in court or the office. Attend the full day or just the sessions relevant to your practice.

In-House Counsel Conference: Lessons for 2021

Face the many significant changes & new risks facing in-house counsel by arming yourself with timely updates & strategies. Consider how to handle financial & insolvency risks in a tight market. Enhance your insurance law knowledge & tactics. Examine significant defamation reforms. Catch up on new employment law and health & safety risks. Gain your core CPD points while examining legal & tax issues involving contractors, ethics and harassment, bullying & wellbeing, and reputation risks. WEB213V15

Property Law Conference

213V02: Whatever property problem this coming year brings, this comprehensive program will prepare you. New legislation, new cases, environment & planning, owners corporations, retail and commercial leasing, building defects, stamp duty, FIRB and more: Melbourne’s leading experts have you covered. Gain all the updates you need in each of these key areas and more, plus lock down your core area CPD points.

10 Points in One Day: Your Last Chance!

213V24: Make the most of your last chance to earn CPD this year by hearing from 15 experts who will give you all the information and skills necessary to grow your knowledge and practice. Featuring timely topics hand-picked to cover some of the most crucial areas for all lawyers, you’ll gain all the CPD you need and bolster your practice in one efficient, information-packed day.

A Practical Guide to Critical Conveyancing Issues

Attend this comprehensive full day conference and gain the latest information and essential strategies you need to avoid slipups and keep yourself up to date. Delve deeper into the most timely and significant considerations in conveyancing such as survey and title issues, cladding risk, title insurance, owners corporations, tax, planning, eConveyancing, the latest cases you need to know and more. 213V14

Commercial Litigation Conference 2021

213V08: Gain high level strategies related to the key areas commercial litigators need to be on top of in 2021. Master how to navigate insolvency disputes. Examine game changing defamation law reforms. Explore how to handle insurance & professional liability litigation following recent developments. Be prepared for the many consumer law claims facing litigators right now. Understand the latest in trust litigation. Gain your core CPD points while examining case valuations, ethics, & technology.

Personal Injury Law Conference

213V18: Obtain a comprehensive roundup of developments in personal injury law covering damages for work injuries, medical panels, psychological injuries, head injury claims, TAC cases and more. In the afternoon, gain your CPD compulsory units through sessions tailor made for personal injury practitioners. Examine critical issues including pain conditions, managing your practice and ethics.

Advanced Family Law Conference

213V06: Gain insights & practical guidance from a stellar line-up of leading family law practitioners. Understand what should go in the asset pool, the weight of contributions; the impact of tax liabilities; insolvency on financial settlements, and recent cases. Earn your core CPD units by mastering how to set aside existing orders and introduce new evidence; ethical obligations of disclosure, and how to recognise and deal with clients, opponents & colleagues displaying signs of mental illness.

Intellectual Property Symposium

213V21: Catch up on recent developments and key issues for IP lawyers from the last 12 months. Gain insights on trade marks reputation and global protection, pertinent issues in copyright, patent oppositions, and how to build an IP strategy for your clients. Attend the full day and gain all your CPD compulsory units while exploring IP due diligence, data breaches, and your ethical obligations as an IP lawyer.

Criminal Law Conference

213V20: Catch up on all the most relevant topics in criminal law. Analyse judge alone trials, representing clients online, changes in sentencing decisions and the credibility of complainants. Plus, gain your core CPD units in issues of paramount relevance to criminal practitioners, including making an effective bail application, the duty of disclosure, and trauma informed courts. You’ll leave equipped with the information and skills your clients and the courts will expect of you.

10 Points in One Day

213S01: Featuring 12 practical sessions & 15 leading experts this is the only program you need. Gain all your CPD points in one go while gaining the latest updates, strategies & skills across a wide range of areas that you come across in your daily files.

10 Points in One Day

213Q03: Gain a wealth of knowledge from the best in their field all in one day. You will gain insights on a variety of areas of law and issues impacting on your practice including all the big areas of dispute today: insolvency, defamation, employment law, estates, family and property. Take away key skills that you can immediately apply to your practice including trial tips and tricks, billing issues and building a team to help you succeed. Attend the full day to gain all the CPD points that you need.

In-House Counsel Conference 2021

213Q06: Examine the many new risks facing in-house counsel and arm yourself with timely updates & strategies. Catch up on new health & safety risks & obligations. Examine significant defamation reforms. Examine the legal minefield of fiduciary and best interest duties. Enhance your skills & strategies related to technology, smart contracts & biometrics. Gain your core CPD points while examining ethics and harassment, bullying & wellbeing, collaborative contracts, and data issues.

Wills and Estates Summit 2021

213Q04: Navigate some of the critical issues that will be coming your way in the year ahead. Delve into the latest developments in family provisions and elder law issues including the new guardianship and administration laws, informal wills, mutual will agreements and SMSF death benefits. Attend the full day to earn your compulsory CPD units from the best in the field. This annual conference is not to be missed.

Personal Injury Conference

213Q09: Gain key updates on public liability, workers compensation psychiatric claim plus technical legal issues of employers duties, workplace injuries related to plant and equipment and claims involving strata and bodies corporate so you stay at the cutting edge of these areas. Explore the interaction between insurance contract and personal injury claims. Plus in the afternoon, gain your mandatory core areas while working through case selection, trial preparation and ethics.

Criminal Law Conference

Hear from directly from a District Court Judge, the Coroner, & a panel of leading barristers and specialist solicitors . Gain the information & skills your clients & the court will expect by delving into judge-only trials, family violence, sexual assault, & offenders with mental impairments. Plus, gain your core CPD units while exploring client relations, the Coroner’s court, & the ethics of clients with mental impairments or illness. 213Q15

A Practical Guide to Critical Conveyancing Issues

213Q08: When a problem arises involving body corporate law, off the plan contracts, GST, land tax, environment and planning issues, adverse possession, e-conveyancing, or other property pitfalls, you need (1) information and (2) a strategy. This practical conference delivers both with a comprehensive breakdown of what you need to know right now and into the next year. Plus, gain your CPD core area points for the year.

Advanced Family Law Conference

213Q07: Gain insights & practical guidance from a stellar line-up of leading family law practitioners. Analyse the latest and most significant cases in Family law, add backs, asset pools, and the impact of tax liabilities and insolvency on financial settlements. Plus, earn your core CPD units by examining how to set aside existing orders & introduce new evidence; ethics during settlements, and how to recognise and deal with clients, opponents & colleagues displaying signs of mental illness.

10 Points in One Day – Your Last Chance

213Q18: This is it! If you have left it to the last minute, do not despair. All your CPD points are taken care of right here. Featuring 10 timely topics hand-picked to cover some of the most crucial areas of law, you’ll gain all the CPD you need and bolster your practice in one efficient, information-packed day. Attend the full day or just the sessions relevant to you and complete your CPD with a lineup of excellent speakers covering the most important topics you need to know.

CPD Core Competency Areas for Personal Injury Lawyers

213W14: Attend this seminar to ensure you obtain practical advice on managing costs in your personal injury practice, cover important ethical considerations, and take a journey with Martin Dobson to explore how personal injury practice functioned before the pandemic, how it adapted to the changed environment and what the future holds.

CPD Core Competency Areas for Wills and Estates Lawyers

213W16: Acquire skills on aligning your business succession, SMSF and personal estate plans. Delve deep into the world of litigation costs in contested probate proceedings, Family Provision Act claims and trust litigation. Gain clarity on dealing with privilege and how to handle clients of questionable capacity or integrity. This is a must attend seminar for wills and estates lawyers involved in estate planning, administration and litigation.

Advanced Evidence and Advocacy Conference

213Q10: Master advanced strategies for developing a case theory, ensuring your expert evidence is persuasive, assessing the admissibility of evidence, and avoiding implied waiver and inadvertent disclosure of privileged material. Then gain valuable insights on advocacy from some of Brisbane’s foremost advocates on written submissions, examination in chief, and mediation so you’ll have the tools for success in any matter.

CPD Core Competency Areas: Property Law

213W02: When your reputation, your client relationships or even your practice are potentially on the line with every property matter you take, can you afford to make a critical mistake on your practice and procedure or when trying to avoid ethical pitfalls? Gain the skills and strategies necessary to stay out of trouble and keep your clients happy, all while pinning down your core CPD points while delving into conveyancing, compulsory land acquisition and avoiding ethical traps

CPD Core Competency Areas for Family Lawyers

213W08: This in-depth program tailored for family lawyers takes a deep dive into several complex and critical practice issues for family lawyers while covering all the CPD core competency areas. Spend an afternoon gaining practical guidance on costs in the Family Court of WA and understanding the impacts of the new Uniform Law, navigating conflicts of interest and ethical pitfalls, and dealing with the mental health of clients, opponents and work colleagues.

Evidence Masterclass

213W18: The intricacies of evidence can make or break a case. Knowing how to develop flawless case theory, leverage expert evidence, ensure your evidence is admissible, and avoid implied waiver of privilege and inadvertent disclosure is absolutely critical. Sharpen your skills and master high level evidence in this practical masterclass led by some of Perth’s top litigators.

CPD Core Competency Areas for All Lawyers: The New Uniform Legal Regime in WA

213W10: Understand the anticipated changes from the Legal Profession Uniform Law. Explore the high risk, hot spots for ethical breaches in your role by examining recent cases and investigate the underlying principles. Gain in depth knowledge of internal control procedures for operating your trust account and your obligations. Protect yourself and your practice by making sure that you have the right costs and billing skills and processes for a healthy lawyer/client relationship.

CPD Compulsory Units: Over Lunch, Over 3 Weeks

A lunchtime series for your compulsory units – this could not be easier! Join us from wherever you choose while you enjoy your lunch and earn your compulsory units at the same time. Convenient, easy and stress free. Together with this engaging panel of experts you will enhance your practice and benefit your clients by examining effective legal project management, how to build a culturally diverse workforce for a successful practice, and the main ethical duties as a legal practitioner. WEB215N01

Ethical Challenges in the Practice of the Law

A lunchtime series for your compulsory units – this could not be easier! Join us from wherever you choose while you enjoy your lunch and earn your compulsory units at the same time. Convenient, easy and stress free. Together with this engaging panel of experts you will enhance your practice and benefit your clients by examining effective legal project management, how to build a culturally diverse workforce for a successful practice, and the main ethical duties as a legal practitioner. OND216N01C

Litigation and Evidence: Preparing and Managing Your Case

Analyse how to effectively prepare and manage your litigation matters & gain your core CPD units. Master how to manage your files to optimise costs. Examine ethics in pleadings, pre-trial procedures & evidence management, and perfect your litigation project management skills. In the afternoon, take a deep dive into traversing the best evidence to support your case. Hone your strategies regarding the admissibility of evidence, disclosure, and maximising evidence from experts and lay witnesses. 218Q01

In-House 10 Point CPD Series: Critical Updates & Practical Guidance

Gain all the CPD, updates & strategies you need with a series of the most important topics all tailor made for in-house counsel. Make it easy for yourself & save by registering for the series or just the sessions that interest you. Watch each session live online or as an on-demand recording. In-depth, 1-hour sessions explore the breadth of contracts, competition & consumer law, cyber crime, discrimination, mental health, workplace law, health & safety, reputation risk, privilege, ethics & more. WEB218N05

CPD Compulsory Units for In-House Counsel

Gain your core CPD units in one afternoon through focused sessions tailor made for in-house counsel. Master how to expertly balance the push and pull between legal risk, commercial risk, and profit. Consider the ever rising reputational risks related to an organisation’s culture and how to avoid disaster. Take a practical look at privilege and the steps, strategies and policies in-house counsel need to follow to avoid inviting trouble by waiving privilege. WEB2111N05H

10th Annual 10 CPD Points in Cairns 2021

This must attend annual event is back for its 10th consecutive year. Featuring 11 timely topics hand-picked to cover some of the most crucial areas of law, you’ll gain all the CPD you need and bolster your practice in one efficient, information-packed day. Attend the full day or just the sessions relevant to you and complete your CPD with a line-up of excellent speakers covering the most important topics you need to know. WEB218NQ01

The Government Lawyer Litigation Guide

You will come away understanding the ethical parameters of the Model Government litigant; understanding how to assess and contest a public-interest immunity (PII) claim; and know how to prepare your department and prepare a response to royal commission or inquiry. Spend an afternoon with this exceptional panel and take away with you all-important practical insights, tips and traps on these key areas in public sector litigation. WEB219V04

CPD Compulsory Units: Over Lunch, Over 3 Weeks

Gain your core CPD units while developing skills & strategies to maximise your practice, minimise risk & avoid ethical pitfalls. Sharpen your negotiation skills to achieve better outcomes in your matters. Examine the ins and outs of confidentiality. Master how to deal with a mistake or oversight right when it happens & before it’s too late. Take advantage of this convenient & efficient lunchtime web series where you’ll gain your CPD units & bolster your practice once a week at lunchtime & online. WEB219N07

CPD Compulsory Units: How to Deal with an Oversight or Inadvertent Mistake in Your Practice

At some point in every practice an oversight or an inadvertent mistake will arise. When that happens it’s critical that you’re prepared to act immediately to evaluate the mistake, make the proper disclosures, minimise as much damage as possible, and put yourself in a position to rectify the mistake. Work through each of these issues with step by step guides and insights into what you need to consider and do when a mistake arises. WEB219N07A

CPD Compulsory Units: Confidentiality: A Paramount and Fundamental Duty

Those lawyers who overlook, underestimate or misjudge the significance and complexities of their duty of confidentiality will quickly find their matters or even their practice at stake. Delve deeply into the nuances of the duty of confidentiality, where things can quickly go wrong, and what you need to consider and do to avoid potential disaster. Examine real world cases and examples to ensure you meet this most critical of duties, all while gaining your ethics CPD point for the year. OND219N07B

CPD Compulsory Units: Effective Negotiation Strategies

Effective negotiation skills can be the difference between success or failure in closing a deal, winning a dispute, or securing a new client. Take a guided tour through the strategies and techniques you can implement in your day to day practice to find success whenever you’re negotiating. Master how to set your objectives, bargain effectively, break impasses, and close the deal to ensure you and your client achieve the outcome you want. OND219N07C

Lawyers on Boards: Advance Your Career by Being Board Ready

Explore the many career benefits for lawyers serving on boards, how to create a plan to get on a board, and what a board CV should look like. Gain the skills to make the most of a board position through strategic thinking, governance skills, risks strategy, and what makes a good board paper. Avoid potential risks by delving into conflicts of interest, privilege & insurance issues. Gain practical insights from experienced lawyers & directors that you can apply in your career on boards. WEB219N15

Will Drafting Workshop for All Lawyers

Perfect for all lawyers looking to begin or build their wills and estates practice, this comprehensive & practical workshop will give you the knowledge and skills needed to effectively and efficiently draft a will in a variety of circumstances and in relation to a number of asset classes. Using concrete examples, legislation & cases, experienced accredited specialists will guide you through the strategies, procedures & requirements you need to develop a toolkit for your practice. WEB218N12

The New Uniform Legal Regime in WA: CPD Core Competency Areas

With the Legal Profession Uniform Law expected to commence in WA on 1 January 2022, now is the time to prepare for the new and changed duties and obligations that will come into effect under the new regime. Join members from the Legal Practice Board of WA and the Law Society of WA’s Costs Committee to examine ethical issues under the new Uniform Law, explore critical trust account and records keeping considerations, and then how the new rules may impact costs for your practice. 2111W02

CPD Compulsory Units for All Lawyers

Watch live online or view the recording at your convenience to square away your core CPD points with a trio of practical sessions that will all have a positive impact on your practice. Master the art of dealing with a difficult practitioner on the other side of a transaction or dispute. Stay on top of the latest disruptors in the profession that will impact your practice. Dedicate time to consider mental health, stress, & how they impact your ability to meet your professional obligations. WEB2111N35

Costs Law Forum

This comprehensive costs program will provide an in-depth guide on how to draft effective costs agreements that will keep clients satisfied and practices running smoothly. You’ll gain information, strategies and best practices needed to effectively communicate with clients while deftly navigating client complaints. Work through the best tactics to recover costs from clients or other parties. Consider strategies to avoid ethical traps and earn your core CPD points in this unique & focused seminar. WEB2111N15

Parliamentary Law: Insights from the Experts

Join Parliamentary Counsel from across the country & an eminent panel of high level speakers that can’t be missed. You will consider the parliamentary law making process, parliamentary vs executive privilege and executive accountability to parliament. Plus you will examine the all-important issues of appearing before Royal Commissions, the ombudsman and other inquisitorial bodies. Don’t miss this chance to hear learn from some of Australia’s most brilliant legal experts on parliamentary law. WEB2111N02