• Professional skills

This course looks at ten issues of significance to consider when drafting such terms of agreement, with relevant cases and articles referred to.

This course aims to provide the legal practitioner with:

• an understanding of some of the major legal issues surrounding the drafting of terms of settlement after resolution of the dispute;
• some essential issues relevant to litigation; and
• an understanding of the range of dispute resolution options available.

Learning outcomes

• To be aware of the issues that need to be addressed in drafting effective terms of settlement that capture the agreement between the parties.
• To understand the context for the drafting of such terms, and reasons settlement can be thwarted, for example by the use of vague language or leaving gaps in the terms.

• Ethics and professional responsibility

Key topics covered include:

• A scenario upon which the course is based
• Prior to the hearing
• Arriving at court
• Engaging in discussions
• The etiquette of appearing
• The substance of your appearance
• Problems you might encounter

• Ethics and professional responsibility 

The ethics of civil actions generally is something rarely considered. Lawyers are typically concerned about personal professional ethics rather than with broader ethical questions. 

This course looks at the broader questions such as conflict of interests between litigation funders and applicants, the problems around cost risks, and summarises the Australian Law Reform Commission Report delivered in January 2019, Integrity, Fairness and Efficiency—An Inquiry into Class Action Proceedings and Third-Party Litigation Funders.

• Practice management and business skills

This is an introduction to block chain technology for lawyers with an update on the crash of cryptocurrencies in 2018. 

Clearly, a technology capable of rendering banks, governmental functions and many long-established business processes nearly irrelevant cannot help but affect the practice of law. You can let your imagination run with that for a moment. Changes are already taking shape in the fields of securities, real estate, insurance, intellectual property, and banking and so on. 

• Professional skills

The Briefing Counsel course covers the following key topics in order to ensure the efficient and cost effective use of counsel:

• An introduction, background and history of briefing
• When to brief
• Who to brief
• How to brief
• Preparing for and instructing in court
• Direct briefing
• Seminar questions and discussion

• Practice management and business skills

Calderbank Offers - Offers of Compromise and Cost Consequences

• Offers of compromise
• Cost Consequences
• Review of Calderbank offers
• Key cases reviewed 
• Ostensible Authority of Solicitors to Bind Clients

This seminar was recorded on September 22 2016 and does not take into account any changes occurring after this date

• Choose one of
  Ethics & Professional Responsibility
  OR Practice Management & Business Skills
  OR Professional Skills
  

• Practice management and business skills

• Tips for preparing your organisation for its media engagements;
• advice and suggestions for making the most of your media opportunities;
• and tools for shaping your media encounters

• Substantive law

• what is capacity
• how to know if someone has capacity
• what triggers to look for
• how to get someone accessed
• how to communicate to your client
• what a prudent practitioner would do

• Professional skills

• Education
• Stress management
• Spirituality
• Exercise
• Nutrition
• Connectedness
• Environment

• Practice management and business skills

• what an undertaking is; 
• the difference between a client undertaking and solicitor undertaking; and consequences of a breach

• Substantive law

• Overview of FRCGW
• CGT Refresher
• International Tax Rules
• CGT and Non-Australian Residents
• CGT Withholding Regime
• Options
• Indemnity Issues
• Penalties
• Standard Land Contract Variation

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• Self assessed