• Ethics & professional responsibility
  
• Practice management & business skills
• Professional skills 

• Professional skills
• Practice management & business skills 
• Ethics and professional responsibility

• Ethics & professional responsibility
  
• Practice management & business skills
• Professional skills 

• Practice management and business skills

From 1 August 2016, the National Verification of Identity (VOI) framework will apply to paper conveyancing under the Conveyancing Rules. This session will cover the requirements to assist practitioners to understand the changes and how they impact conveyancing transactions.

• Professional skills

The way you draft pleadings will set the tone for a case. Join Dr Elisabeth Peden SC, for a masterclass on drafting pleadings. Learn what to include, what to exclude, and how to plead in a way that really strengthens your case, whether you are acting for the plaintiff, defendant, or cross-claimant.

During the masterclass you will gain an enhanced understanding of how to structure and draft pleadings, what information is required in pleadings, and apply the relevant rules and procedures to your drafting.

By completing this course, you will increase your ability to use the tools available to manage others remotely. 

• Professional skills

• The importance of the process of mediation
• The importance of having a true appreciation of the context of the dispute underlying the mediation

• 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

Developing mindfulness skills is an effective way to manage the dynamic circumstances of life, minimise stress and improve overall performance.

• What mindfulness actually is – not just jargon and buzzwords
• How to use mindfulness to improve all areas of your life
• Examples of mindfulness AND mindlessness
• How to do it – Mindfulness is best learnt by doing, we take you through practical mindfulness exercises that you can work into your day, not just while you are at the course

• Practice management and business skills

• What is the difference between a business and a legal profession;
• Business Development;
• Who is competing with you for your lunch today; and
• Something to consider in order to remain on the winning side

•  Professional Skills
  

This session introduces the negotiation conflict resolution and communication skills vital to help professionals work through difficult conversations that arise in working relationships and with clients and suppliers. Participants will learn some of the psychology of conflict, how to plan for and respond to negative reactions and emotions along with ways to keep the discussion on track and steer it toward workable options and firm commitments. This recorded webinar will be helpful to anyone who might be avoiding a difficult conversation at work due to a lack of confidence, who is frustrated by the lack of follow through on prior agreements or who has to manage dissatisfied clients or personality clashes in the workplace.

Key Learning Outcomes:

• Reflect on their own needs, interests and feelings in a key relationship or situation and set conversation goals or action plans with timelines
• Apply some opening up strategies to create the time and opportunity for constructive conversations and to set the scene and open the dialogue positively.
• Steer a conversation toward an objective and rational stance while at the same time remaining empathetic, responsive and engaged with the perspectives of others
• Manage difficult moments and behaviours more effectively by having some constructive techniques to redirect, neutralise

This session will address the practical considerations that lawyers need to take into account when a person dies intestate.

This course will help you begin to strengthen your nonverbal actions by evaluating ten communication events. This evaluation period will give you an idea of what you’re doing well and what you need to improve. In addition, by paying attention to your nonverbal behaviours, you’ll be more conscious of what you’re doing, and as a result will naturally start to develop your capabilities. By completing this course, you will be able to monitor and improve your nonverbal communication actions.

•  Practice Management and Business Skills
  

NSW Legal Cost Update - Trips and Pitfalls in LPUL Compliance? Attendees will gain a better understanding of the current climate and what you will need to look for to ensure you comply with the LPUL as well as an overview of recent cases

By the end of the course you will be able to:

• Create a client file
• Identify commonly used terms
• Draft a Will
• Understand the steps in executing a Will
• Draft a Power of Attorney
• Obtain necessary documents to enable a Probate Application to be lodged
• Draft Probate documents
• Compile an Inventory of Property
• Calculate Probate costs
• Understand steps in the administration of an estate
• Complete the distribution of an estate

By the end of the course you will be able to:

• Create a client file
• Identify commonly used terms
• Draft a Will
• Understand the steps in executing a Will
• Draft a Power of Attorney
• Obtain necessary documents to enable a Probate Application to be lodged
• Draft Probate documents
• Compile an Inventory of Property
• Calculate Probate costs
• Understand steps in the administration of an estate
• Complete the distribution of an estate

•  Professional Skills
  

It's not just individuals who face unconscious biases in the workplace; teams and organisations can also operate with shared institutionalised biases. Ensuring a diverse workplace requires seeing past these biases. In this course, you'll learn about the process of overcoming organisational biases and how to function as an inclusive leader. You'll also learn specific tactics for combating unconscious biases in the workplace.