Corporate & Commercial

Rural, Regional and Remote Issues

Rural legal issues are often complex and emotionally charged. This tailor-made program will bring you up to speed on the topics that matter most to you and your rural practice. Don't miss this chance to work through the mechanics of overlapping land uses, mining compensation claims, water entitlements, tax implications when transferring the family farm between generations and managing mental health. With major infrastructure development in rural areas, this annual program is not to be missed. WEB236N15Z

Agribusiness Law Seminar

This program aims to provide participants with comprehensive understanding of key facets in agribusiness law, providing you with practical strategies and case studies. Gain insights into the establishment of optimal legal structures for agribusinesses, tax implications for intergenerational family farms transfer, and the Carbon Credit Scheme domain. You will also examine developments in the FIRB application process, shedding light on crucial considerations for agribusiness transactions. WEB243Q25Z

Succession and Elder Law for Rural Communities

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Land Access and Environmental Law Issues

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Cross Border Contracts and Disputes: Jurisdiction, IP, and Risk Management

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Plain English Drafting: Unlocking the Power of Effective Legal Communication

In the legal profession, the ability to communicate effectively is key to your success. Learn how to avoid common pitfalls and ensure your clients are not just happy but well-informed. Join us for a transformative program led by a renowned expert in legal drafting, where you'll learn how to elevate your writing skills and leave drafting mishaps behind. Don't miss this opportunity to consolidate your foundations and excel in the practice of law. WEB243N53Z

Contracts: Strategies, Risks, Clauses and Cases

Gain guidance through critical contract clauses you need to get right for risk mitigation. Delve into the risks from the reformed Unfair Contract Terms regime and good faith negotiations. Get your guarantees and indemnity clauses right for risk mitigation and ensure your contract drafting is right for guarantees and termination clauses. Benefit from straightforward analysis, practical examples and real-world case studies, making it easy to navigate and safeguard against costly mistakes. WEB245N05

PPSA Fundamentals & Strategies: Essential Elements of Registration

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Cyber Risk Allocation in Contracts

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Using Contracts to Cap and Avoid Liability for Uncommercial Risks

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Contract Disputes and Litigation Forum

We stand ready to equip you with what you need. In this 3-hour Forum led by top contract litigation experts, you will dive deep into the three crucial areas to explore including strategies for minimising contractual disputes, plus unpack repudiation, termination and damages. Plus, get skilled-up in arbitration with all the tips and traps to assist you. Al while you earn your CPD units along the way. 243W02

Contract Law Masterclass

Led by esteemed experts Dirk Feinauer and Richard Douglas, with David Vilensky facilitating, this masterclass simplifies complex concepts into three main parts for you: how to think about a contract, what happens when you have a disagreement about your agreement, and strategies for challenging negotiations. Get contracts right. Join us for a special chance to learn from experts and provide the most up-to-date results for your clients. 243W15

Contract Law Conference

Re-examine the the building blocks of your practice – contracts. Examine everything from the new Unfair Contracts term reforms to the myriad of clauses required to minimise and allocate risk including the current concern of cyber risk allocation in contracts. Gain valuable insights into contract termination, an in-depth damages analysis and practical tips for resolving contract disputes through arbitration. 243Q04

Contract Law Conference: Drafting, Risk and Disputes

Navigate through everything you need to draft contracts to minimise risk, strategise the risk allocation and insolvency clauses, and stay updated on reform and caselaw including the newest amendments to Unfair Contract Terms legislation, all in one day. Learn from experienced litigators interpretation concerns, contract endings and cross-border contract enforceability. Gain both the knowledge and skill needed for your contracts practice. 243V17

Contract Law Conference: Advanced Drafting and Risk Allocation

Step into the future of contract law at our Annual Contract Law Conference! We invite you to elevate your skills in precise contract drafting under the guidance of Australia's top contract law experts. Explore innovative techniques for liability management, IP protection, and risk reduction. Delve into the importance of insurance, efficient cybersecurity practices, and approaches to prevent conflicts. 243N28

Contract Disputes & Damages Fundamentals - Terminating the Contract

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Contract Drafting & Key Terms - Reviewing Form Contracts

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Contract Drafting & Key Terms - Effective Dispute Resolution Clauses and Avoiding Fundamental Drafting Mistakes

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Contract Drafting & Key Terms - Drafting to Manage Insolvency Risks

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Contract Drafting & Key Terms - IP Clauses You Can’t Risk Overlooking

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Cross Border Contracts, Business Deals & Disputes

Cross-border contracts are evolving, and investment opportunities are growing. Managing the legal challenges in these agreements is paramount. IN a jam-packed afternoon you will delve into foreign contract enforceability and navigate cross-border disputes using contemporary methods for managing conflicts and addressing intellectual property risks. Join an expert panel to master the essentials of cross-border contracts and stay updated on the latest strategies in global business. WEB242N05Z

Contract Disputes & Damages Fundamentals - There’s Been a Breach: What is my Client’s Loss?

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Contract Disputes & Damages Fundamentals - Dispute Resolution Processes in Contract: What, Why and How Much?

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Contract Law Conference - Managing Your Contracts When Things Don’t Go As Planned: Contract Termination

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Trusts and Deeds Advanced Review

Drafting a trust or a deed is more than just plugging client names into a one-size-fits all trust structure. Effective trusts and deeds are constructed by analysing and considering issues like risk, documentation, tax consequences, asset protection, resettlement, and the impact of insolvency on trusts and trustees. This session will examine all of these issues for you. 213N37

Contract Law Conference - Managing Your Contracts When Things Don’t Go As Planned: Damages: Expectations and Inconveniences

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Contract Law Conference - Managing Your Contracts When Things Don’t Go As Planned: Contract Disputes and Arbitration Clauses

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Contract Law Conference - Latest Cases, Clauses and Contracting Conundrums: Indemnities, Liability Exclusion Clauses and ‘Carve Outs’

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Contract Law Conference - Latest Cases, Clauses and Contracting Conundrums: Managing IP in the Contracting Process

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Contract Law Conference - Latest Cases, Clauses and Contracting Conundrums: Contracts: The Latest and Greatest

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Contract Law Conference - Latest Cases, Clauses and Contracting Conundrums: Good Faith Arising in Commercial Contracts

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Contract Law for Non-Lawyers

Gain the tools you need to enter into contracts and manage contractual relationships effectively. By developing a solid foundation in basic contract law and acquiring practical skills, you will be equipped to protect yourself and your organisasion from unnecessary risks, facilitating smoother transactions, managing contract disputes more effectively and enhanced professional decision-making. WEB239N26Z

Contracts by Goldberger

Prepare to revolutionize your legal practice as you gain invaluable insights and practical tools that can be immediately applied to real-world scenarios. Jeffrey Goldberger's expertise will be your guiding light, backed by a wealth of real-world examples, precedents, and comprehensive analysis. Don't miss this exclusive opportunity to join Jeffrey Goldberger once again and acquire an expert perspective that will elevate your understanding of contract law to unprecedented heights. 2311N30

Contract Disputes Unpacked

There's no doubt contract disputes can quickly escalate into protracted, expensive and unpleasant litigation causing long-term damage to commercial relationships and increased costs. Attend and gain a proactive approach to managing contractual disputes. Examine issues of limitation of liability, repudiation, termination and restitution. Understand the implications of contract suspensions and alternative dispute resolution. Be guided by experts with technical expertise and industry experience. 238N16

Public Sector ICT Contracting: The Legal Issues

Join us for our upcoming public sector ICT contracting webinar, where you’ll dive into the essential skills and knowledge needed for successful procurement processes, contracting and dispute management of technology. An expert panel will share their insights on the latest trends, best practices and provide practical tips for negotiating contracts and managing project risks. This webinar will equip you with the tools you need to succeed in the complex world of ICT contracting. WEB235N11Z

Public Sector Procurement and Tendering: Legal Issues

You’ll gain an understanding of the advantages of collaborative procurement and early contractor involvement, as well as strategies for managing contract variations during and after tender acceptance. Explore potential challenges to procurement processes at the state and federal government levels. WEB236N09Z

Contract Law Conference

Obtain in-depth guidance on the latest in contract law. Gain effective techniques when dealing with arbitration clauses, termination and damages. Master your contract drafting with top tips from the experts. Understand the nuances of good faith in a contract. Attend this informative day jam-packed with useful tactics and skills to meet your legal & commercial contracting goals in 2023. WEB233Q01Z

Primer in Drafting Commercial Documents

You come across these documents so often that they should be perfect. Refine your skills when drafting some of the most common and critical commercial documents you deal with. Examine each clause and tactic you should include in a trust deed. Master how to draft an effective shareholder agreement that accomplishes your client or organisation’s goals while minimising risk. Work through a detailed checklist of the key issues and documents you need to get right in any sale of business agreement. WEB228N08

Contract Drafting: Managing Modern Risk

Gain a deep understanding of assessing risk and appropriate provisions to include in your contracts to protect your clients interests. Whether you are a seasoned professional or just starting out, this seminar is the perfect opportunity to gain valuable knowledge and skills to help you successfully navigate modern risks including data, privacy and IP risks. Navigate risk mitigation clauses such as insurance, indemnities, warranties and limitation of liability. WEB235N04Z

PPSA Fundamentals & Strategies

Gain the tools, information and strategies needed to effectively handle PPSA issues from registration to release. Gain a checklist of the key considerations related to registration. Explore precisely what you need to know about retention of title. Hone your ability to perfect a security interest and understand issues surrounding general security clauses. Work through exactly how to remove or release your interests and how to effectively dispute a registered interest. 233N66

Contract Law Masterclass with Jeffrey Goldberger

Take a deep dive into the latest issues and cases impacting contract law. With real world examples, precedents and analysis, you’ll walk away with clear insights and tools to implement immediately in your practice. Take a masters tour into the recent cases on misleading conduct, the Unfair Contract Terms regime and assessment of damages, penalties and liquidated damages. Facilitated by Jeffrey Goldberger, a contract law specialist who is a recognized authority on Australian contract law. 233N26

Contract Law Conference

This timely program offers the information, strategies & tools needed to navigate the many legal and commercial realities that may have pushed you to the limit. Obtain in-depth guidance on the latest in interpretation, dispute resolution & termination. Gain effective techniques when dealing with good faith. Finally, establish a sound understanding of key contracts that practitioners struggle with the most in order to meet your legal & commercial obligations to your clients. 233N32

Contract Law Conference

Gain the requisite strategies & tools needed to navigate the many legal & commercial realities facing your practice. Obtain guidance on the latest cases, good faith requirements, terminating contracts and effective management of IP. Improve on your ability to deal with indemnity & liability exclusion clauses, damages and arbitration clauses. Develop strategies to meet your legal & commercial contracting goals in 2023. 233V22

Contract Drafting & Key Terms

Gain the information, strategies & tools needed to navigate the legal and commercial realities of contracting in today’s environment. Get expert tips on drafting contracts and clauses. Understand why you should include IP clauses in your next contract. Learn how to effectively draft dispute resolution clauses and avoid critical mistakes. Pick up the key tricks in the contract review process and the pitfalls to look out for. 233W11

Contract Disputes & Damages Fundamentals

Expand your toolkit to expertly deal with tricky issues related to contractual disputes & damages. Delve into the practicalities of contractual breach and how to accurately measure your loss. Master how to navigate contract termination and its subsequent consequences. Cultivate the best tactics to employ when evaluating damages. Hone your strategies and perfect your skills to meet your legal & commercial contracting goals. 233W12

Contract Law Conference

This timely program offers the information, strategies & tools needed to navigate the many legal and commercial realities that have been pushed to the limits over the past 2 pandemic years. Obtain in-depth guidance on the latest in unfair contracts, cross-jurisdictional deals, risk allocation, termination & damages. Gain effective techniques when dealing with contractual interpretation & implied duties. Finally, develop innovative drafting strategies to meet your legal & commercial contracting goals. 223N17

Contract Drafting & Key Terms

Gain the information, strategies & tools needed to navigate the legal and commercial realities of contracting in today’s environment. Obtain a detailed checklist on how to review a contract to minimise, allocate, & manage risk. Hone your negotiation and drafting skills while earning your ethics CPD point for the year. Get up to date on unfair contract law reform & the best strategies to deal with potentially unfair terms. Sharpen your skillset when dealing with IP issues in contracts. 223W11

Contracts: Duties, Disputes & Damages

Expand your toolkit to expertly deal with tricky issues related to contractual duties, disputes & damages whether front end or back. Explore implied terms and how to deal with them. Master how to navigate waiver, estoppel & termination for breach. Cultivate the best tactics to employ when drafting penalty clauses and time bars to minimise risk and maximise damages. Hone your strategies for rectification & variation of contracts. Perfect your skills to meet your legal & commercial contracting goals. 223W12

Contract Law Conference

Gain the information, strategies & tools needed to navigate the many legal & commercial realities that have been pushed to the limits over the past 2 pandemic years. Obtain in-depth guidance on the latest in preliminary agreements, ethics, negotiation, online contracting & IP clauses. Gain effective techniques when dealing with unfair contracts, risk allocation, insurance & indemnities, and dispute resolution. Develop innovative strategies to meet your legal & commercial contracting goals in 2022. WEB223Q03

Contract Law Masterclass: Cases, Terms & Damages

The past year has seen significant developments in contract law and it’s vital that you’re across those changes and how to deal with them to minimise risk. Examine urgent hot spots including privity of contract, waiver & election, estoppel, enforcement, and the duty to cooperate. Analyse the latest in the implication & incorporation of contractual terms. Gain the latest information on damages for breach of contract and effective drafting techniques to limit or exclude liability for such damages. WEB223N46

Contract Law Conference

Gain the information, strategies & tools needed to navigate the many legal & commercial realities that have been pushed to the limits over the past 2 pandemic years. Obtain guidance on the latest cases, the new unfair contract reforms, renegotiating & terminating contracts, and preliminary agreements. Gain effective techniques when dealing with implied terms, indemnity & liability exclusion clauses, damages, and breaches. Develop strategies to meet your legal & commercial contracting goals in 2022. 223V17

International Contracts, Business Deals & Disputes

Effectively manage risk and ensure you’re across the legal issues unique to an international deal with this deep dive into cross-border business deals, international contracts, overseas transactions, jurisdiction, choice of law, dispute resolution, arbitration, judgments and enforceability. Gain a comprehensive guide to the strategies a lawyer must consider when a client is negotiating and entering into a contract overseas, whether that client is a multinational corporation or a family business. WEB223N14

10 Points in One Day Your Last Chance!

Optimise your last chance to earn CPD this year by hearing from 16 experts who will unpack 10 sessions of critical information and skills that will catapult your knowledge and elevate your practice to new levels. 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. 223V25

Saturday 10 Points in One Day

Featuring pre-eminent and leading silks, barristers and solicitors, 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. WEB223V20

Winning Your Contract Law Disputes

Gain the insights & strategies needed to ensure that any contract dispute ends up going your way. Explore the latest unfair contract developments & what they mean for your contracts. Master how to make sure your contract interpretation arguments win out. Work through each step in the breach of contract process, from mitigation to remedies to damages. Perfect your procedural and evidentiary tactics in contract litigation. Examine which contract dispute resolution processes you should adopt & why. WEB219N10

Contract Law Masterclass: Cases, Terms & Damages

2021 has seen significant developments in contract law and it’s vital that you’re across those changes and how to deal with them to minimise risk. Examine urgent hot spots including privity of contract, waiver & election, estoppel, enforcement, and the duty to cooperate. Analyse the latest in the implication & incorporation of contractual terms. Gain the latest information on damages for breach of contract and effective drafting techniques to limit or exclude liability for such damages. WEB2111N41

Managing Risk: Insurance, Indemnities, Warranties, & Limitation of Liability

Gain the strategies you need to minimise risk in your contracts with this in-depth guide to some of the most vital tools you can use to mitigate risk for your organisation. Understand how insurance obligations impact contracts. Consider the role of indemnities in contracting and how to limit liability. Perfect your contract drafting strategies while minimising risk. WEB2110N05D

Innovative Contract Drafting Strategies: Designing vs Writing a Contract

Minimise your contract risks and avoid costly interpretation disputes by exploring innovative and practical drafting strategies. Learn when and how to implement unique contract drafting tools such as tables, timelines, flowcharts, diagrams, pictures, annotations and more. For each tool you will explore real world examples of how organisations are utilising them to make their contracts more clear and effective while minimsing risk and potential disputes. WEB2110N05E

Construction Contracts Masterclass

A masterclass not to be missed. Join contracts guru Jeffrey Goldberger as he delves into the major construction contract areas where disputes often arise such as tenders, bank guarantees, liquidated and general damages, termination and quantum meruit. Leave this masterclass, more knowledgeable and ready for any eventuality with highly refined skills in dissecting contractual issues. Tailored for the construction lawyer, this is the contracts masterclass you will not want to miss. 216N38

Competition and Consumer Law Update: New Legislation & Significant New Cases

Stay up to date on the most important trends, developments and cases involving competition and consumer law. Explore the latest updates in significant new legislation. Analyse the critical takeaways from recent cases that may a have a major impact on your organisation. Prepare yourself to confidently, efficiently & effectively navigate any competition or consumer law risk that comes your organisation’s way. WEB219N05B

Cyber Crime & Executives: Lessons for In-House Counsel

Corporate executives are the prime target for cyber crime. As in-house counsel it’s critical that you understand these risks and precisely how to mitigate them. Delve into exactly how and why cyber crime poses such a significant risk to executives. Gain practical strategies to minimise vulnerabilities, change behaviour in your organisation in a meaningful & lasting way, minimise risk through insurance, and perfect your cyber security policies and training. WEB219N05C

Contract Disputes, Termination & Damages: A Guide to Contract Termination

Gain an in-depth guide to the key principles of contract termination and the latest case in the area. Examine the various rights to terminate, including contractual rights, common law rights, force majeure, frustration, and repudiation. Explore termination procedures such as timing, election, and the consequences of failing to follow procedure. Finally, delve into the impact on contractual obligations and remedies. OND213W27

Contract Law: Essential Skills for Non-Lawyers

If you deal with contracts or are involved in contract-making in the course of your work, you need to know how to avoid legal risks & problems that can arise at any time. Understand what forms a contract to ensure your contracts are correct. Protect against obvious risks through proper risk management. Be confident that the contract is properly executed with a review on the technicalities of execution. Understand these key issues & more at this seminar specifically tailored for the non-lawyer. WEB215N07

Contract Risk: Clauses & Case Studies

This unique and in-depth program will guide you step by step through the most critical contract clauses you need to get right to minimise risk and to avoid the consequences of making a mistake that could prove costly to your organisation, client or practice. Examine indemnity, warranty, liability, insurance, default, force majeure, termination, ipso facto, penalty, and damages clauses through detailed analysis, practical examples & real world case studies. 216N27

Contract Law Conference: Minimising Risks & Disputes

213Q02: Ensure your contract drafting strategies are modern, effective & unassailable. Survey the latest contract interpretation methods & consider the duty to negotiate in good faith. Perfect your protections against default & insolvency. Get up to date on the latest in technology & contracts. In the afternoon, examine how to allocate risk through indemnity, exclusion and insurance clauses. Explore the latest contract termination strategies. Gain strategies for dealing with contract damages.

Contract Law Forum 2021: Minimising Risk

213W05: Ensure your strategies and skills when facing some of the most important contract law issues in 2021 are effective & unassailable. Survey the latest approaches for dealing with unsigned contracts. Consider critical legal issues and obligations tied to the latest in technology and contracts. Avoid risk by bolstering your knowledge and tactics related to good faith in contracts. Finally, perfect your protections in your contracts against default & insolvency.

Contract Disputes, Termination & Damages

213W06: Fine tune your strategies regarding drafting dispute resolution clauses and navigating the disputes process. Build your knowledge and refine your approach to dealing with the increasingly crucial issue of contract termination. Perfect your tactics when a breach arises so that you’re fully across how a breach can be established and precisely how contract damages can be assessed.

Contract Law Conference: Minimising Risks & Disputes

Ensure your contract drafting strategies are modern, effective & unassailable. Survey the latest contract drafting and interpretation methods. Consider key implications related to good faith obligations. Perfect your protections against default & insolvency. In the afternoon, master contract disputes by examining unfair terms and unconscionable conduct, the latest contract termination strategies, and how to approach breach of contract damages. 213V19

Contract Law Masterclass: Minimising Risk & Liability

213N51: Recent events have had a dramatic impact on contracts leading to a significant rise in disputes. With many parties suddenly unable or unwilling to perform their contractual duties, there’s no better time to explore the most important drafting and disputes issues you need to be across. Examine breaches, damages, remedies, securities, indemnities, liability, allocation of risk and more. Each of these issues will be covered in-depth along with a look at the latest contract law cases.

Contract Law Conference: Minimising Risks & Disputes

213N18: Ensure your contract drafting strategies are modern, effective & unassailable. Survey the latest contract interpretation methods & consider the duty to negotiate in good faith. Perfect your protections against default & insolvency. Fine tune your indemnity, insurance & exclusion clauses. In the afternoon, master contract disputes by examining dispute resolution clauses, how to recover damages or defend against them, and the latest contract termination strategies.

Contract Law Masterclass: Liability & Risk

Recent events have had a dramatic impact on contracts leading to a significant rise in disputes. With many parties suddenly unable or unwilling to perform their contractual duties, there’s no better time to explore the hottest drafting and disputes issues you need to be across. Examine breaches, damages, remedies, securities, indemnities, liability, allocation of risk and more. Each of these issues will be covered in-depth along with a look at the latest and most significant contract law cases.

Deconstructing Construction Contracts: Critical Takeaways

Armed with updates and insights into critical recent cases and key issues such as the prevention principle and exclusion clauses, you will be able to provide expert guidance. Join experienced construction law barrister, Sydney Jacobs, as he gives you a deep dive into essential recent cases and provides you with unique insights on the key takeaway.

How to Get Out of a Property Sale or Rental Agreement – or Prevent an Escape

In a tumultuous time for the property sector, practitioners are reporting an increase in repudiation of both commercial and residential contracts. Hear straight from a distinguished senior counsel about remedies available such as damages, specific performance and loss of deposit. Dive into penalty considerations and consider the timely COVID related issues of repudiation of rental agreements and frustration.

Contract Law Disputes 2020

What do the latest contract law cases say about the increasingly prevalent and important issues commonly being disputed right now? How should you bring or defend against a claim that a contract is unfair or unconscionable? When can you enforce or escape a contract that’s unsigned? How can you effectively and accurately determine a party’s damages & loss? What must you consider when contract termination is sought? Explore each of these critical issues and more through practical insights, examples & guidance.

Damages for Breach of Contract: How to Successfully Recover Damages or Defend a Claim

Review how to maximise contract damages or defend against a contract claim. Explore how contractual damages are assessed, how tort and consumer law plays into the equation, and how to navigate expectation and reliance damages, loss of change or opportunity, and loss of bargain damages. Build practical strategies to address causation, remoteness, mitigation, liquidated damages and more.

The Six Contract Drafting Issues You Need to get Right in Today’s Environment

Master how to draft the crucial clauses you need in your contracts right now to deal with the latest risks facing lawyers & their clients in the current environment. Perfect your drafting strategies to deal with force majeure, suspension & termination, warranties, electronic signatures, exclusivity & more.

Minimising Contract Risk: Drafting, Disputes & Damages

Master how to draft the crucial clauses you need in your contracts right now to deal with the latest risks, including insights into force majeure, suspension & termination, warranties, electronic signatures, exclusivity & more. Hone your risk allocation with watertight insurance, indemnity & exclusion clauses. Review how to maximise contract damages or defend against a contract claim. And finally, perfect your dispute resolution clauses or consider how to avoid them when a dispute arises.

Hot Contract Issues for Architects: Force Majeure, Frustration & Performance

Issues covered include: COVID-19, contracts, force majeure, frustration, performance

Contemporary Contract Law Issues

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

Resources: Project Developments, Contracting & Market Design

Issues covered include: renewable resources, climate change, project developments, hydrogen project, electricity design, gas contracting, energy market

Contract Law Masterclass

Issues covered include: cases, Indemnities: Legal Principles and Drafting Issues, Implication and Incorporation of Contractual Terms

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.

Law for Architects: Contracts, Planning & Disputes

Issues covered include: Construction certificates, Occupation certificates, Architect SEP 65 Verification Statement, Design and Building Practitioners Bill 2019, regulated design, Building and Construction (Security of Payment) Act, adjudication, Role as Superintendent, agent of the principal, exercising independent discretion

Contract Law Conference 2020 - Recorded on March 2020, NSW

Issues covered include: unsigned contracts, online contracting, dispute resolution clauses, terminating contracts, damages, expectation loss, reliance loss, liabilities, IP, confidentiality clauses, statutory intervention.

Government Contracts: NEW Legislation and Guidelines in COVID-19 and Beyond

Issues covered include: probity procurement, recent changes to conflict of interest guidelines, trends in government corruption, fraud and misconduct, improving fraud control, audit processes, probity plan, new legislation, Public Works and Procurement Amendment

Contracts & COVID-19: Force Majeure, Frustration & Performance

Issues covered include: key contract cases, contract formation, non-performing contractor, Assignment and novation, Rectification, estoppel, common law and equitable estoppel principles, inadvertent variation of contractual obligations, Good faith in contract performance

CANCELLED: Contract Law Masterclass

With contracts lying at the very heart of both the commercial and legal spheres, it’s critical that you hone your knowledge, skills and strategies in this area. There’s no better way to perfect your abilities when working with contracts than to attend this practical masterclass.

Contract Law Conference

Issues covered include: Enforcing Unsigned Contracts, Liability and Risks, Indemnities, Liabilities, Exclusion Clauses, Consequential Loss, Dispute Resolution Clauses, Termination, Damages, Online Contracting, Confidentiality Clauses , IP, Unfair Terms, Unconscionable Conduct ,,Unfair Trading

Law for Architects: Contracts, Costs and Risk

Issues covered include: Costs Blowout Liabilities for Architects, Cladding and Non-Conforming Materials: liability and risk, Payment Disputes for Architects

Goldberger on Contracts

Issues covered include: Contract law, commercial contracts, Estoppel, Australian law

Law for Architects: Contracts, Claims and Risk

Issues covered include: liability, risk, construction, cladding, payment disputes, avoiding lawyers, design errors, lead consultants, sub consultants

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"

CANCELLED: Contract Law Masterclass

Featuring a renowned specialist in the field, Jeffrey Goldberger will walk you through precisely what you need to know to elevate your practice. From taking a deep dive into the hottest issues and cases impacting contract law to working through real world examples to providing you with precedents, examples, case law and analysis, you’ll walk away with insights and tools to implement in your practice.

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

Contract Law: Minimising Liability and Risk

Issues covered include: contract and commercial law, liability, risks, damages and indemnities, consumer law, the unfair contracts regime and understanding potential liability, general liability of limitations clauses

Law for Architects: Crucial Issues in Compliance and Contracts

Issues covered include: legal risks for architect, commercial issues, contracts, construction

Contract Law Masterclass

Issues covered include: contract and commercial law

Employment Contracts and Policies

Issues covered include: employment contracts, bonus clauses, commission clauses, workplacesuveilance, office romance, confidentiality clauses, IP clauses, workplace polices

Managing Contracts to Avoid Disputes

While the goal of contracting is to draft a document capable of avoiding or minimising disputes, the cold, hard reality is that disagreements and dustups are inevitable. A dispute might arise from a failure by one of the parties, a misunderstanding as to the expectations and obligations under the contract, or good old fashioned unscrupulous behavior. Gain an understanding of precisely how contract disputes can arise and how to deftly manage them.

Contracts Risk and Disputes

While the goal of contracting is to draft a document capable of avoiding or minimising disputes, the cold, hard reality is that disagreements and dustups are inevitable. A dispute might arise from a failure by one of the parties, a misunderstanding as to the expectations and obligations under the contract, or good old fashioned unscrupulous behavior. Gain an understanding of precisely how contract disputes can arise and how to deftly manage them

Contract Law: Minimising Liability and Risk

Issues covered include: Regulatory compliance, contractual conformity, insurance and indemnity clauses, common law, boilerplate clauses

Contract Enforcement and Disputes

Issues covered include: statutory intervention, unfair terms, unconscionable conduct, cross-juridictional contracts, contract notices, dispute resolution clauses, common law rights to terminate

Contract Law Masterclass

Issues covered include: Statutory unconscionable conduct, Indemnities, Contract drafting, Incorporation of Contractual Terms, case law, Jeffrey Goldberger, Special Counsel, Norton Rose Fulbright.

Contract Law Conference

Issues covered include: unsigned contracts, dispute resolution, ipso facto clauses, insolvency, common law rights to terminate, risk, limitation of liability, indemnities, unfair terms, unconscionable conduct, cross-jurisdictional contracts, variation

Contract Law Conference: Risk Management Melbourne

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

Contract Law Essentials: Avoiding Risk

Issues covered include: rectification and variation, drafting contracts, heads of agreement, pre-contractual representations, dispute resolution clauses

Contract Law Roundup Perth

Contract Law: Eliminating Mistakes & Managing Risk

Issues covered include: warranties, indemnities, insurance, M&A transactions

Drone Law: Critical Regulatory, Risk and Liability Issues

Issues covered include: technology, regulatory issues, insurance issues, risk considerations, privacy, compliance, safety regulations

Drone Regulation: Risk & Liability

Issues covered include: Operating a Drone in the New Environment, Cyber Security and Drones, Drones and Privacy, Effectively Dealing with Regulatory Issues, Insights from CASA

Space Law: How it will Impact Your Commercial Law Firm

Space Law is becoming increasingly relevant to more legal practices. Be able to deliver a full range of legal services to the many areas of the space industry now and into the future. Dive into the relevance of space law for your practice, the International Space Treaty Framework, the unique features of commercial space contracts and the implications for intellectual property law. Take one small leap for yourself and one giant leap for your practice. WEB216N35

Drones: Risks, Regulations & Liability

Pilot your way through the essential risks, regulations and liabilities causing turbulence in drone law right now. Catch up on the latest developments & risks with drones, data, cyber security and privacy. Master every step of the process when dealing with drone contracts & licences. Examine the latest insurance issues impacting drones. Gain a detailed understanding of how to deal with the areas and sources of liability from drone use. Finally, perfect your tactics when dealing with the Regulator. WEB219N18

Franchising Law: New Law and Current Concerns

The dust has settled and the new Code is in force, strengthen your position by hearing about practical applications and possible courses of action for your clients. With a delectable array of topics, uncover what the changes mean for franchises, understand the greater protection for franchisees, and then delve into the new multiparty ADR process. You will unravel the current trends in franchise agreements and so much more. WEB223N48

6th Annual Franchising Law Update

The new changes from the Franchising Code of Conduct Amendments came into effect on 1 July. How have these changes been implemented by franchises and how are they dealing with the changes? You will explore this and more with leading experts from the coalface. You will gain insights on how to run the new multiparty ADR processes. Take away practical, valuable tips on drafting franchise agreements. Explore the critical path for Australian Franchisors looking to expand internationally. WEB2111N38

Franchising Law: Updates, Disputes and Compliance

WEB213N24: Are you across the latest franchising issues in order to better assist your clients in navigating the year ahead? Hear from leading franchising practitioners across Australia as they examine up to the minute developments in the franchising sector. Analyse significant cases of interest and key issues in the franchisor and franchisee relationship. Gain strategies on best practice compliance and dispute resolution.

Franchising Law: Critical Lessons and Key Changes

Issues covered include: Parliamentary inquiry, dispute resolution, compliance activities,

Franchising Law Forum: Critical Lessons and Key Changes

Issues covered include: Franchising Update, How to Give Franchisees Legal Advice about a Franchise Agreement, Dispute Resolution Processes, Issues Arising due to COVID-19

Franchising Law: Updates, Disputes and Compliance

Are you across the latest franchising issues in order to better assist your clients navigate COVID-19 and beyond? Hear from leading franchising practitioners as they examine the latest updates in the franchising industry, analyse significant cases of interest, and provide strategies on how to resolve disputes and ensure best practice compliance.

Drafting Franchising Agreements under the New Code

The Franchising Code of Conduct Amendments have changed the game and will impact how you draft franchising agreements. Explore the real impact of the changes to operations and processes, key fact sheets and disclosure document. Gain valuable nuggets on the New Franchise Disclosure Register, plus examine the unresolved issues that you need to be aware of, and the consequences of failing to comply with obligations. Take away invaluable tips that you can immediately apply in your practice. WEB229N65

New Franchise Disclosure Register and Penalties

Significant changes to the Franchising Code of Conduct came into effect on 15 April 2022 so it is imperative that you understand the practical and legal implications that will affect you and your clients. In this not-to-be-missed 2-part event, you will master the compliance requirements for the new Franchise Disclosure Register and unpack the new eye watering penalty provisions to ensure you are not caught out!! WEB225N41

Unfair Contract Terms, Recent Code Reform and Other Drafting Considerations

The new Treasury Laws Amendment (More Competition, Better Prices) Bill 2022 is here! You could face maximum civil penalties for breach of competition & consumer laws & unfair contract terms. Get ahead of the game by understanding how to draft effective clauses so you don’t contravene the UCT regime. Learn to identify & deal with unresolved issues under the Franchising Code of Conduct Amendments, their impact on drafting agreements & keep your clients from landing on the wrong side of the law. WEB2210N65AZ

Franchising Law: Disclosure Register, Urgent Competition Issues and Watertight Agreements

The deadline is looming for franchisors to publish key disclosure information on the new Franchise Disclosure Register. Avoid the eye-watering penalties by discovering the information that must be in the Disclosure Register so you don’t get caught out. Plus investigate competition issues arising from franchising agreements, manage compliance problems, take away best practice on breach notices, review the new termination provisions in the Code, and so much more! WEB2211N09Z

Franchising Law: Cases, Disclosure, Restraints and Insolvency

Franchising Law is a minefield for the undiscerning. Ongoing disclosure obligations under the new Code will be reviewed. Learn the missteps from the latest cases and ACCC actions to protect your clients from non-compliance. Receive practical guidance for the franchisee/franchisor relationship, from restraints of trade to insolvency. WEB233N60Z

Franchising Law: Navigating the New Regulatory Regimes

How can you prepare for and deal with the many regulatory changes in the franchise landscape? Gain an essential understanding of the implications of the current New Regimes with the new Unfair Contracts regime, the Franchise Disclosure Register Updates, new termination reforms and trends relating to end of term. Make sure you know how all these changes will affect your organisation and clients. Franchising is one of the most popular strategies for growing a business, stay up to date. WEB239N06Z

Franchising Law: Updates, Disputes & Compliance

An unmissable opportunity to hear from matter experts as they roll up the latest developments in franchising law over the past year, including the Treasury’s 2023 review of the Code of Conduct. Whether you represent the franchisors or the franchisees, this seminar will uncover the best practice for navigating risks, dealing with unfair contract terms, and overcoming legal and regulatory issues affecting the business operations in the franchising system. WEB243N51Z

Not for Profit and Charities Law Conference 2023

Immerse yourself in all the latest developments in the legal landscape affecting the not for profit and charities sector. Attend this multi-faceted program to hear insights from the ACNC. Ensure you can confidently address regulatory, taxation and governance concerns that could cause dispute and litigation in your organisation. Gain risk prevention strategies for cybersecurity breaches and involvement with children. Receive practical guidance on fundraising reforms and employment taxes. WEB239N10Z

Not for Profits and Charities: Critical Updates

Hear from the ACNC on current legislative changes plus take a deep dive into the changes to General Meetings. Immerse yourself in tips and processes of the constitution for a charitable company, important new changes to the Corporation Act, legal issues arising for charities involved in advocacy, and a legislative update on deductible gift recipients. This webinar will deliver the answers you need with practical discussions and takeaways to help implement best practice policies. WEB229N64

Not for Profits & Charities: New Operational and Governance Risks

Issues covered include: directors' duties, finance, relief, operational concerns

Not for Profits & Charities: Current Directors Duties & Restructuring Options

Issues covered include: director duties, Corporations Act, ACNC, restructuring

Not for Profits and Charities: The Current Legal Issues

Issues covered include: Charitable Fundraising, Governance for NFP Boards, Managing Volunteers in NFPs, Philanthropy in Action, Winding up NFPs, Mergers and Amalgamations

Not-For-Profits and Charities Legal Symposium

Issues covered include: regulation, compliance, offshore operations, employment, safeguarding, volunteers, incorporation with charities, tax considerations

Not for Profits and Charities Law Forum

Navigate the many issues facing your clients or your organisation given COVID-19 and recent Royal Commissions in this detailed morning packed with informative and practical sessions from a diverse range of speakers. Scrutinise the financial issues resulting from COVID-19. Catch up on the latest employment law issues. Analyse director’s duties and restructuring options. Examine critical new law coming from Royal Commission findings. Consider financial reporting and tax and compliance issues.

Law for Disability Providers: Your Obligations in the NDIS Landscape

Hear from some of the best lawyers in the disability sector as they review recent changes to SDA regulations; financing disability and SDA housing; practice standards and worker screening requirements under the NDIS Quality & Safeguarding Framework; and key learnings from The Royal Commission. Review other laws that impact on your business including privacy and cyber-security, consumer laws, employment law, workplace manslaughter offences & more.

Not for Profits and Charities: The Legal Issues

Everything you need in a day. Scrutinise the rights and obligations of members, operational restructures, board inductions, employment issues like bullying, harassment, discrimination & wages plus data risk management. Hear insights from the ACNC and analyse the current financial issues including taxation, structures, deductable gifts, and insolvency. This annual event focuses on not only giving you critical updates, but also sheds light on the many issues facing your clients or your organisation. WEB219N21

14th Annual Religious Law Symposium

New discrimination and confessional privilege legislation, major discrimination and freedom of speech cases, and evolving religious freedoms have had an enormous impact on the legal rights & risks facing religious institutions. A panel of formidable experts will help you navigate these important issues and more. Examine freedom of speech, confessional privilege, governance & risk management. Explore litigation issues with the redress scheme, property & administration concerns, and privacy law. 2111N36

Religious Based Institutions: The Legal Issues

Issues covered include: how Australian law protects religious freedom, freedom of religion vs freedom of expression, privacy law, church tribunals, employment contracts, property law and the Church, institutional abuse, civil liability, civil claims

Corporate Roundup: Fraud, Cartels and Bribery Perth

CPD Core Competency Areas for In-House Counsel

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

Directors and Officers Summit: You Have the Full Support of the Board

Issues covered include: delegation models, health and safety, continuous disclosure, insurance, liability

Directors and Officers: Duties, Risk and Liabilities

Issues covered include: director duties, professional liability, work health and safety, risk and liability, early settlement of disputes

Privacy and Data Security: And the Changes Keep Coming...

Issues covered include: Privacy, data breach, privacy supply chain risks, privacy complaints, Privacy Act, data, GDPR

Shareholder Agreements and Shareholder Recovery

Issues covered include: corporate misconduct, shareholder recovery, drafting shareholder agreements

Contract Law: Eliminating Mistakes & Managing Risk

Issues covered include: warranties, indemnities, insurance, M&A transactions

Business Sales Legal Issues: Negotiating and Documenting

Issues covered include: employees, IP considerations, franchise business, valuation of a business

Buying and Selling a Business: Transactional Excellence

Issues covered include: negotiated mergers and acquisitions, M&A, IP, intellectual property, data, privacy, consumer data right, tax, CGT, valuations

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

Buying and Selling a Business: Transactional Excellence

Issues covered include: reputation, due diligence, franchise business, valuation, transfer of work, term sheets, MoUs, HoAs, precursor agreements, warranties, representations, indemnities, insurance, leases, IP, privacy, data

Business Sale Risks and Structures Summit

Issues covered include: Warranties, indemnities, indemnity clause, insurance, due diligence, cybersecurity, privacy, consumer data, business structures, tax strategies, GST, franchise

Medicinal Cannabis Legal Symposium

Issues covered include: Narcotic Drugs Act 1967, Medico Legal aspects, in-house counsel perspective, Courts, prescribing in the clinical setting

Contract Law Masterclass

Issues covered include: Statutory unconscionable conduct, Indemnities, Contract drafting, Incorporation of Contractual Terms, case law, Jeffrey Goldberger, Special Counsel, Norton Rose Fulbright.

Compulsory Land Acquisition Guide

Issues covered include: Proposed Acquisition Notice, Powers of resumption, Assessments, Instructing Experts and Maximising Expert Evidence, Land valuation assessment and methods, partial acquistion, business valuation and compensation.

Insolvency Review: Reforms in Practice

Issues covered include: Insolvency, PPSR, safe harbour, ipso facto, legal and illegal phoenix activity

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

Contract Enforcement and Disputes

Issues covered include: statutory intervention, unfair terms, unconscionable conduct, cross-juridictional contracts, contract notices, dispute resolution clauses, common law rights to terminate

Franchising Law: New Law, New Developments

Settle in, because this timely full day conference covers a whole host of critical new developments in franchising law with analysis from leading practitioners, the Franchise Council of Australia, and the ACCC. With the industry facing its second Parliamentary Inquiry, potential new superannuation laws, uncertainly around the impact of the Corporations Act on a franchisor’s right to terminate, the ongoing impact of the recent Fair Work Amendment Act, and increased focus by the regulator

Contract Drafting: Managing Risk

Dissect some of the most important risk related clauses and master how to draft watertight contracts that will provide your clients with unassailable risk protection. Perfect the art of allocating risk, maximise leverage related to damages and penalties, avoid the pitfalls of insolvency and default and ensure that if a dispute arises you’ll have the upper hand. Hone your skills in all these areas while considering example clauses that can reduce risk in your contracts.

Drones Usage and Liability

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), Miniature Pilotless Aircraft, Flying Mini Robots or Drones – whatever you call them, they’re undeniably increasing in adoption and usage throughout all areas of society. With such rapid growth comes increasingly significant implications around their usage and liability for both private and government entities. Get the latest on UAV/Drone law usage direct from the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA)

Privacy, Mandatory Data Breach and Release of Data

Massive changes are afoot that expand the way we deal with the handling of personal information. This year we will see the introduction of the GDPR, a new amended Australian Government Agencies Privacy code, new Consumer Data Rights legislation, as well as the ongoing impact of the recently introduced Mandatory Data Breach Notification Regime, all impacting how government and businesses alike collect, handle and release personal information.

Corporate Governance Summit

As operational, cultural and ethical failings are exposed at corporations with alarming and increasing regularity, this program should be mandatory for every legal practitioner in corporate law as well as every board member and senior executive. Spend the morning navigating what’s new with leading practitioners and the afternoon refining your practice and procedure. Take a deep dive into regulatory investigations, insolvency, shareholder activism, publicly listed companies and more

3rd Annual Credit Law Conference

The hottest issues in credit law? We have 12 of the most important topics you need to know right now. The best speakers? Hear from AFCA, the Ombudsman, ASIC, the OAIC, leaders in banking and finance, and elite practitioners in the sector. Convenience and efficiency? Experience this comprehensive conference all in one day right in the Sydney CBD or streamed live online directly to you. No sponsored speaking slots. No costly and time consuming travel. No fluff. Just the best content and the best speakers.

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.

Legal Issues for the Film and Television Industry

Issues covered include: new platforms, technology, music licensing, screenrights opportunites, defamation, employment, tax, financing, sexual harassment, off shore productions, production offsets, production cash flow

Privacy, Mandatory Data Breach and Release of Data

Issues covered include: data breaches, technology, data, privacy, cybersecurity, consumer data right, open banking,

Franchising Law: Critical Lessons and Key Changes

Issues covered include: Parliamentary inquiry, dispute resolution, compliance activities,

Not-For-Profits and Charities Legal Symposium

Issues covered include: regulation, compliance, offshore operations, employment, safeguarding, volunteers, incorporation with charities, tax considerations

Road Transport Supply Chain: Legal Obligations

Are you a supply chain business contracting as a consignee or consignor? Do you receive and dispatch goods of any kind? If so, are you sure about your legal exposure and obligations under the recent reforms? And are you aware of what is not legally required? Gain certainty on your legal obligations by getting guidance from the Regulator and a panel of experts as they speak on the wide ranging impacts of recent regulatory reforms and future Heavy Vehicle National Legislation impacting the industry.

Total Permanent Disability (TPD) and Life Insurance Injury Claims: The Cutting Edge

Issues covered include: Section 54 Insurance Contracts Act, non-disclosure and misrepresentation, tax, super, centrelink after insurance payment, superannuation insurance claims, neuropsychology and psychiatry

Understanding Financial Reports: A Practical Workshop

Issues covered include: essential elements, practical examples, potential distress, insolvency, valuation issues

Managing Client Expectations - Recorded in September 2019, NSW

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

5 Skills for the Commercially Minded In-House Counsel

Issues covered include: contract tendering, negotiation strategies, legal risks and commercial challenges of operating across multiple jurisdictions, insolvency risk management procedures, analytics, automation, litigation

Business Clients: 25 Answers To Their Most Asked Questions

Issues covered include: commercial law, taxation, employment, contract law, intellectual property, governance

Trusts Masterclass

Issues covered include: trusts law, trustees and beneficiaries, trust distribution, case and legislation update

Law for Architects: Crucial Issues in Compliance and Contracts

Issues covered include: legal risks for architect, commercial issues, contracts, construction

Contract Law: Minimising Liability and Risk

Issues covered include: Regulatory compliance, contractual conformity, insurance and indemnity clauses, common law, boilerplate clauses

Drone Law: Critical Regulatory, Risk and Liability Issues

Issues covered include: technology, regulatory issues, insurance issues, risk considerations, privacy, compliance, safety regulations

Contract Law Masterclass

Issues covered include: contract and commercial law

Contract Law: Minimising Liability and Risk

Issues covered include: contract and commercial law, liability, risks, damages and indemnities, consumer law, the unfair contracts regime and understanding potential liability, general liability of limitations clauses

Business Clients: 20 Answers to Their Most Asked Questions

Issues covered include: commercial law, taxation, employment, intellectual property, governance

Legal Issues for Startups

Issues covered include: commercial law, contracts and contracting, intellectual property strategy, legal issues in marketing, privacy, cybersecurity, data breach, start-up investment

Insolvency and Bankruptcy Latest Developments

Issues covered include: insolvency and bankruptcy - debtors, creditors, liquidators or trustees, voidable transaction, trading trust priorities, superannuation, voluntary administration, impact for unsecured creditors

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

Corporate Governance Summit

Issues covered include: compliance obligations of Australian company directors, ethics and culture and operations of corporations, Hayne Royal Commission, whistleblowing law. company boards, climate change, artificial intelligence, crisis situations

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.

CANCELLED: Contract Law Masterclass

Featuring a renowned specialist in the field, Jeffrey Goldberger will walk you through precisely what you need to know to elevate your practice. From taking a deep dive into the hottest issues and cases impacting contract law to working through real world examples to providing you with precedents, examples, case law and analysis, you’ll walk away with insights and tools to implement in your practice.

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

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

Drone Regulation: Risk & Liability

Issues covered include: Operating a Drone in the New Environment, Cyber Security and Drones, Drones and Privacy, Effectively Dealing with Regulatory Issues, Insights from CASA

Comprehensive Legal Update for Your Commercial Clients

Issues covered include: Employment Law, Contracts Law, TAx, IP

CANCELLED: Privacy and Data Security Workshop

This practical workshop covers the essentials you need to know in order to be protected from both a technical and legal perspective. Our expert workshop facilitators will engage in worked examples of privacy and data security of involving case studies and more. Don’t wait to learn from your mistakes. Attend here and learn now. When the real thing happens you will know exactly what action to take.

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"

Goldberger on Contracts

Issues covered include: Contract law, commercial contracts, Estoppel, Australian law

Understanding Financial Reports: The Complete Masterclass

Issues covered include: practical examples, case studies, essential elements, signs of potential distress or insolvency, valuation issues

Retail and Commercial Leasing Review

Issues covered include: Assignments, Subleases, Redevelopment and Tenant Downsizing, Disclosure: The Retail Leases Act, What’s Required, and Consequences of Getting it Wrong, Commercial and Retail Leasing Update, Retail and Commercial Leasing Market Snapshot , Relief Against Forfeiture & Options to Renew, Variation, Surrender and Termination of Leases, Strategies to Avoid or Resolve Breaches of Lease

Franchising Law Forum: Critical Lessons and Key Changes

Issues covered include: Franchising Update, How to Give Franchisees Legal Advice about a Franchise Agreement, Dispute Resolution Processes, Issues Arising due to COVID-19

Contract Law Masterclass

Issues covered include: cases, Indemnities: Legal Principles and Drafting Issues, Implication and Incorporation of Contractual Terms

Not for Profits and Charities: The Current Legal Issues

Issues covered include: Charitable Fundraising, Governance for NFP Boards, Managing Volunteers in NFPs, Philanthropy in Action, Winding up NFPs, Mergers and Amalgamations

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.

Privacy and Data Security Law

Issues covered include: Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, privacy, Data Breach, Meta-Data

Joint Venture Agreements and Start-ups

Issues covered include: disputes, Resolution Clauses, Start-Up, Strategic Alliances, Shareholder Agreements

Business Sales: The Big 3 Legal Issues

Issues covered include: Acquisition Documents, Tax, Transfer Duty, Franchise

Property Taxes for All Lawyers

Issues covered include: Landholder Duty, Transfer Duty, Land Tax, Foreign Acquirers, GST, Tax Structures for Holding Property

In-House Counsel: CPD Core Competency Areas

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

Advanced Commercial Litigation Conference - Recorded in March 2020, WA

Issues covered include: commercial litigation, case update, recent developments, contractual construction, electronic signatures, misleading deceptive, remedies, defamation, corporate liability, digital claims, insolvent trusts, ipso facto, fiduciary duties, breach of contract obligations, remedy

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: Comprehensive Legal Update for Your Commercial Clients

Clients can often arrive with a difficult question, and unless you’re a specialist in that area the answer may not roll off your tongue. For those with a broad practice that includes business clients, you need to be an expert across a huge range of areas from tax to employment law to IP to governance. Find out what the specialists in these fields see as the absolute key questions for business clients, so that you’ve got the answers covered.

CANCELLED: Trusts and Deeds Masterclass

Gain insight into the complex issues of trusts and deeds in this high level afternoon masterclass. Discover how to set up an airtight trust by delving into the areas the Family Court focuses on. Gain in-depth knowledge of issues surrounding insolvent trustees so you are in prime position to give accurate advice. Ensure you are on top of the always relevant areas of amending and resettlement.

Contract Law Conference

Issues covered include: Enforcing Unsigned Contracts, Liability and Risks, Indemnities, Liabilities, Exclusion Clauses, Consequential Loss, Dispute Resolution Clauses, Termination, Damages, Online Contracting, Confidentiality Clauses , IP, Unfair Terms, Unconscionable Conduct ,,Unfair Trading

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

Retail and Commercial Leasing Review

Issues covered include: Outgoings, Special Conditions, Negotiation Strategies, Developments, Owners Corporation Law, Leasing, Retail Leases Amendment Bill 2019, Breaches of Lease

Comprehensive Legal Update for Your Commercial Clients

Issues covered include:Employment Law, Contracts , tax, IP

Demystifying Venture Capital and Private Equity Transactions

Issues covered include:Demystifying VC and PE Transactions for Founders and their Advisors, Drafting Shareholder Agreements , Insolvency, Valuations of Early Stage Investments

Advanced Commercial Litigation Conference

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

Business Sales: The 4 Big Issues

Issues covered include: Intellectual Property, Technology and Privacy, Transfer of Business Rules under The Fair Work Act 2009, Franchise Business Sales, Advising Your Client

CANCELLED: Liquor and Gaming Forum

Melbourne’s leading liquor and gaming seminar returns with everything you can’t afford to miss to stay up to date in the year to come. Hear from industry experts as they provide timely updates and in-depth analysis on the latest liquor and gaming issues facing Victoria today.

CANCELLED: Contract Law Masterclass

With contracts lying at the very heart of both the commercial and legal spheres, it’s critical that you hone your knowledge, skills and strategies in this area. There’s no better way to perfect your abilities when working with contracts than to attend this practical masterclass.

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

Retail and Commercial Leasing Review

Issues covered include: case update, logistical risk, disclosure statements, termination, guarantees, valuation, rent reviews, outgoings

Comprehensive Legal Update for Your Commercial Clients

Issues covered include:employment law, contracts, tax, IP

SMSFs: The A-Z of Legal Issues

Issues covered include: contributions, property syndicates, Powers of Attorney, managing death of an SMSF member

Trusts and Deeds Advanced Review

Issues covered include: trusts cases, trust structures, asset protection, taxing trusts, trust disputes, COVID-19 measures

PPSA Updates and Strategies

Issues covered include: current issues, leases, consignments, reform, PMSI, security reviews

Directors & Officers: Know the Duties

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

Shareholder Agreements Workshop

Issues covered include: structuring entities, drafting agreements, tax structuring

Property Taxes for All Lawyers

Issues covered include: state taxes, GST, property transactions, property tax, foreign acquirers, investments, holding property

Trusts & Deeds Masterclass

Issues covered include: Amending Trust Deeds and the Re-settlement of Trusts, Trust Operations, Trading Trusts and the Corporate Trustee

Liquor Licensing Reforms

Described as the most significant change to hit SA’s liquor licensing laws in 20 years, late 2019 will see the commencement of a new liquor licensing system. Don’t miss your chance to hear from Judge Brian Gilchrist, the Liquor and Gambling Commissioner Dini Soulio and several industry specialists. Explore the practical considerations of the reforms for new businesses and new licence applicants and examine new disciplinary actions.

Liquor and Gaming Law Roundtable - Recorded on March 2020, NSW

Issues covered include: liquor licensing, property transactions, gambling law, responsible gambling, lockout laws, prosecuted licensees

Contract Law Conference 2020 - Recorded on March 2020, NSW

Issues covered include: unsigned contracts, online contracting, dispute resolution clauses, terminating contracts, damages, expectation loss, reliance loss, liabilities, IP, confidentiality clauses, statutory intervention.

Contracts & COVID-19: Force Majeure, Frustration & Performance

Issues covered include: key contract cases, contract formation, non-performing contractor, Assignment and novation, Rectification, estoppel, common law and equitable estoppel principles, inadvertent variation of contractual obligations, Good faith in contract performance

Defamation Law Forum

Issues covered include: defamation, serious harm test, reputation, third party liability, online publication, freedom of expression, search enginges, Voller, misleading and deceptive conduct, misuse of personal images

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

Consumer Law: The New State of Play

Issues covered include: consumer law, ACL, statutory guarantees, contractual warranties, damages, unconscionable conduct, misleading and deceptive conduct, unfair contract terms

Legal Project Management Masterclass: Getting Ahead in Challenging Times

Issues covered include: LPM disciplines, matter scheduling, matter resourcing, matter costing, matter monitoring

Contemporary Contract Law Issues

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

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

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

Understanding Current Business Valuations

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

Corporate Governance: New Legislation & Risks

Explore new laws impacting governance, including virtual AGMs, modern slavery, climate change risks & more. Gain a comprehensive update of key regulatory updates, enforcement results, & regulations. Finally, scrutinise the many new duties & risks facing directors, including ASIC & ASX guides, continuous disclosure, insolvency, ESG principles, breach of fiduciary duties, shareholder rights, supply chains & more. Register for all 3 sessions & save or just the ones you want.

Minimising Contract Risk: Drafting, Disputes & Damages

Master how to draft the crucial clauses you need in your contracts right now to deal with the latest risks, including insights into force majeure, suspension & termination, warranties, electronic signatures, exclusivity & more. Hone your risk allocation with watertight insurance, indemnity & exclusion clauses. Review how to maximise contract damages or defend against a contract claim. And finally, perfect your dispute resolution clauses or consider how to avoid them when a dispute arises.

In-House Counsel: Workplace Law Alert

Delve into the many new workplace laws, duties, and obligations that in-house need to be across, including how to navigate new whistleblower and industrial manslaughter laws. Delve into the latest issues impacting employees on visas. Gain strategies for managing ill and injured employees. Finally, explore the latest COVID-19 issues that in-house counsel are grappling with right now, such as problems with returning to work, flexible work arrangements, and the latest updates on JobKeeper and employee claims.

The Six Contract Drafting Issues You Need to get Right in Today’s Environment

Master how to draft the crucial clauses you need in your contracts right now to deal with the latest risks facing lawyers & their clients in the current environment. Perfect your drafting strategies to deal with force majeure, suspension & termination, warranties, electronic signatures, exclusivity & more.

Allocating Risk in Risky Times: Indemnity, Insurance & Exclusion Clauses

Hone your risk allocation with watertight insurance, indemnity & exclusion clauses. Master when and how to use these risk allocation strategies to reduce risk and provide maximum protection for your organisation or clients.

Damages for Breach of Contract: How to Successfully Recover Damages or Defend a Claim

Review how to maximise contract damages or defend against a contract claim. Explore how contractual damages are assessed, how tort and consumer law plays into the equation, and how to navigate expectation and reliance damages, loss of change or opportunity, and loss of bargain damages. Build practical strategies to address causation, remoteness, mitigation, liquidated damages and more.

A Guide to Variation of Trust Deeds

Master how to deal with variations of trust deeds when circumstances change. Examine what to look for in a review, essential clauses, the terms of any variation power, and when to rely on a variation power to amend a trust instrument. Gain insights on adding and removing beneficiaries, settlement versus resettlement, transfer duty implications, vesting issues, trustee powers, beneficiary considerations and more. This session is a must attend for all commercial, corporate and wills & estates practitioners.

Quantum Meruit: Navigating Critical Changes

The High Court’s decision in Mann v Paterson Constructions Pty Ltd dramatically changed the law in relation to quantum meruit claims. Discover what’s happened to quantum meruit, when the restitutionary remedy’s no longer available, when it’s practically worth pursuing, and the impact of contract price on these claims. Examine what all of these significant changes mean for your practice going forward and don’t miss this opportunity to clarify these critical issues.

Credit Law: Responsible Lending Update

How has the market downturn impacted responsible lending obligations? How have banks and lenders grappled with the sudden influx of requests from businesses and consumers? How have the regulators responded? Join Steven Klimt to uncover the grey areas of responsible lending, explore the impact of the ‘Wagyu and Shiraz’ decision, and get the concise information you need to stay on top of your obligations in 2020.

Mortgages: Enforcement, Collections & Critical Updates

COVID-19 and the resulting market downturn has significantly impacted mortgages, including when, how and if they should be enforced. There is a great deal of risk & uncertainty for consumers, businesses, banks & lenders. This comprehensive seminar covers the key issues related to mortgages in the current environment, including enforcement actions, collections, fraud, defences to enforcement & more. Gain essential information & guidance on how to deal with the situation right now & into the near future.

Insurance Claims & Litigation: COVID-19 & Critical Updates

Examine the significant impacts of COVID-19 on insurance claims & litigation, including the effect on business interruptions, contractual issues, health-related claims, and new & novel claims against corporations, directors & Government. Get the latest updates on regulatory developments in insurance law. Examine how insurance claims against insurers are litigated. Get up to date on the latest insurance litigation cases, including evidence and fraud issues in insurance disputes.

Collecting Unsecured Debts during COVID-19

You will examine how to work with the latest legislative and procedural changes in debt collection and unsecured loan recoveries and explore the best strategies for enforcing unsecured debts that fall below statutory thresholds. Plus, gain practical insights on dealing with bankruptcy and winding up actions. Whether the amendments to debt collection expire in September or are extended, this is your chance to perfect your practice and procedure for the current environment and whatever is to come.

Contract Law Disputes 2020

What do the latest contract law cases say about the increasingly prevalent and important issues commonly being disputed right now? How should you bring or defend against a claim that a contract is unfair or unconscionable? When can you enforce or escape a contract that’s unsigned? How can you effectively and accurately determine a party’s damages & loss? What must you consider when contract termination is sought? Explore each of these critical issues and more through practical insights, examples & guidance.

Franchising Law: Updates, Disputes and Compliance

Are you across the latest franchising issues in order to better assist your clients navigate COVID-19 and beyond? Hear from leading franchising practitioners as they examine the latest updates in the franchising industry, analyse significant cases of interest, and provide strategies on how to resolve disputes and ensure best practice compliance.

Owners Corporations Intensive: Major Legal Developments