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This program is designed with workers compensation lawyers in mind and will enable you to gain your CPD core competency area points while being brought up to speed on the latest case law and legislative updates. You will pick up practical tips to gain an edge for your clients, develop your practice, manage conflicts between employers and insurers and avoid ethical pitfalls that can trip up your matters and your practice.
Attend and earn 4 CPD points including:
1 point in Competency Area 1: Practice Management
1 point in Competency Area 2: Professional Skills
1 point in Competency Area 3: Ethics & Professional Responsibility
1 point in Competency Area 4: Substantive Law
This seminar was recorded in WA on 18 September 2018
Chair: Fiona Stanton, Barrister, Francis Burt Chambers
Competency Area 2: Professional Skills
9.00am to 10.00am: Understanding & Managing Differences Between Employer and Insurer
Managing employees who have made a workers’ compensation claim can present a raft of challenges for employers. This is especially so where there are ongoing employee relationship issues. When an insurer becomes involved, there are often differences that arise between the employer and insurer about how to manage the employee’s claim. Some the differences and challenges that arise include:
Presented by Carla Vinciullo, Partner – Employment and Workplace Relations, Murfett Legal
Competency Area 3: Ethics & Professional Responsibility
10.00am to 11.00am: A Light in the Dark: Finding Your Way Out of Ethical Black Holes
How to identify and approach an ethical issue in workers compensation.
Presented by Robert McCabe, Barrister, Albert Wolff Chambers
11.00am to 11.15am Morning Tea Break
Competency Area 1: Practice Management
11.15am to 12.15pm: Worker’s Compensation Practices: Profitable and Valuable by Nature or Design?
Presented by Martin Dobson, Partner, Moray & Agnew; Recommended Public & Product Liability Lawyer (Defendant), Doyle’s Guide 2017
Competency Area 4: Substantive Law
12.15pm to 1.15pm: Case and Legislation Update: The Year to Date
A review of recent decisions of importance to personal injury lawyers from WA and other jurisdictions, including appeal cases, relating to workers compensation and common law access.
Presented by John-Paul Wilson, Principal, Gilchrist Connell; Recommended Public & Product Liability Lawyer (Defendant), Doyle’s Guide 2017