Catalogue

Issues covered include: leadership skills, self-leadership

Issues covered include: George Pell

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

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

Don’t miss this opportunity to hear from experienced practitioners working at the coalface of property transactions who will identify exactly what you need to know to effectively and efficiently see a property transaction through from beginning to end. In one practical, information-packed seminar you’ll gain the knowledge and skills necessary to ensure your property transactions run smoothly.

Your clients have worked hard to put themselves in the best financial position possible and they’re counting on you to help them stay in that position. But doing so is often far easier said than done. Wills are challenged, superannuation and tax laws change and a client’s personal situation can shift at a moment’s notice. In one info-packed morning you can master the strategies necessary to manage these issues throughout your client’s lifetime and upon death.

Esoteric topics might be interesting, but not very useful in the day-to-day of managing estate conflicts. Attend for the afternoon and walk away with valuable, practical advice from key parties, including the SAT, the OPA, the bar and private practice. Gain concrete, hands-on guidance on essential practices and procedures along with key updates that you can take back to the office and apply immediately.

Spend the day with eight outstanding litigators to gain a deeper appreciation of advanced trial techniques and strategies. Gain valuable insights from some of Perth’s foremost trial advocates to enhance your persuasive skills when making addresses and examining witnesses. Then master how to leverage your expert, electronic and documentary evidence; minimising the need for superfluous evidence and ensuring it’s all admissible so you’ll have the tools for success in any matter.

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

From the coasts to the inner city to the courtroom, significant change is afoot in environmental law. Delve into the latest legislative developments involving coastal management, explore changes to non-rural tree clearing legislation, and make sure you’re prepared to expertly and efficiently handle any dispute that comes your way.

How consumers and companies engage with each other is rapidly evolving every day in the digital age. With advertising and marketing law at a tipping point, it’s critical that those in the sector stay on top of the constant changes facing the sector. Catch up on the latest digital trends through standout presentations on influencer marketing, online shopping and the ACL, user generated content, and data & privacy, as well as a special presentation on social responsibility in advertising.

Ask yourself this: What exactly is your client expecting? They expect you to have a thorough understanding of the intricacies of trusts and the latest strategies related to superannuation. They expect you to be at the cutting edge of digital and business assets and to be able to protect a family’s assets no matter how convoluted the circumstances. They expect you to be able to expertly handle any probate matter that arises, no matter how obscure or complex.

Sometimes it seems easier to ask what can’t go wrong in a construction project than to fathom the myriad ways everything can fall to pieces for your clients or your organisation. But regardless of whether you’re an optimist or a pessimist, you must be prepared to avoid or manage risk at every turn. And when things do go wrong, it’s essential that you’re across the latest in defects, economic loss, Security of Payment issues, critical new case law and more.

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.

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)

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

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

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.

The workforce remains a hive of potential pitfalls for both employers and employees, as a lot can go wrong and so often does, especially with the increase of out of hours conduct impacting the employment relationship. Such behaviour is often made worse with the response of an unfair dismissal. Hear the Fair Work Commission and senior legal experts opine in the morning on recent changes and developments impacting the workforce, followed by a practical afternoon exposé on workplace investigations.

Take a wide angle shot of the most important issues impacting film and television law today with 8 in-depth, practical sessions covering everything from the latest legislation to workplace hotspots to contracts, IP, funding, insurance and more. Download an impressive range of perspectives from film and TV industry leaders, the accounting world, eminent lawyers and renowned in-house counsel.