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