The session will cover trust money and trust accounts fundamentals, discuss topical related issues and threats as well as looking at some current examples of failures in accounting controls.

Ethics Hypotheticals

In this session Linden Barnes will provide a practical, interactive discussion using hypothetical situations to test your knowledge and think differently about how to manage ethical dilemmas. You will take away an understanding of how being an officer of the court affects your work and what impact it has on our clients.

Cutural Awareness

Leading into NAIDOC Week 2018, Norman Laing (Partner, Waratah Partners and of the Dunghutti People) will provide an Introduction to Aboriginal Cultural Awareness with an overview of pre-colonial history as well as those significant contemporary events that has contributed to the current socio-economic status of Australia’s First People.

• History of Powers of Attorney - especially in relation to an Attorney’s authority
• The Powers of Attorney Act 2003
• The 2013 form for an Enduring Power of Attorney
• The Court of Appeal’s decision in Taheri - v - Vitek
• An Attorney’s authority from the perspective of a third party
• An Attorney’s authority from the perspective of an Attorney

• Introduction to Family Law
  
• Functions of the Court
  
• Divorce
  
• Alteration of Property Interests
  
• Financial Agreements
  
• Spousal Maintenance
  
• Family Dispute Resolution
  
• Parenting Matters
  
• Family Violence & Abuse
  
• Reaching Agreement
  
• Commencing & Responding to Proceedings
  
• Court Events
  
• Subpoena
  
• Costs
  
• Child Support
  
• Case Scenarios
  

• Provision for email service. 
  
• Increased protection for the purchaser in relation to a strata renewal. 
  
• Changes to reflect the mandatory transition to electronic conveyancing. 
  
• Changes to reflect other legislative updates. 
  

• Continuing liability of business purchase agreements to NSW duty; 
• Liability to duty of business purchase agreements in other jurisdictions;
• What property is liable to duty
• When does duty need to be paid in the various jurisdictions; and
• Tricky issues in practice – earn-outs, clawbacks and apportionment.

The NSW Government has set a timeline for the transition to eConveyancing. This involves mandates that all standalone transfers and caveats must be lodged digitally as of 1 July 2018 and that all mainstream property transactions be completed electronically by 1 July 2019. 

This workshop has been designed to assist practitioners in managing the transition to eConveyancing. 

It will explore the mandates and what they mean, practical considerations for setting up with the ELNO, and the broader legal and regulatory framework.

• Mandating - how and when?
  
• Setting up with the ELNO - practical tips and trust account rules
  
• Legal Framework - understanding the context
  
• Subscriber Compliance - the why, the what and the how?
  

Proudly funded by the NSW Government in association with the Law Society of NSW.

• finance essentials and taxation strategies
• pricing your services and billing the client
• avoiding pitfalls in trust money and trust records
• leadership and management techniques
• hiring and training reliable staff
• managing risk
• business planning
• marketing methods to grow your business
• attracting and retaining clients
• ethics and responsibility

Online learning portal opens 6 July 2018

• Business names - what are they and how to register them Common business entities such as trusts, companies, sole traders, partnerships- their main features and the role they play in the business world ASIC - what it is and its role in the business world
• Company formation - steps to be taken to register a company on line
• Stamp duty and its application to business assets such as goodwill, land and intellectual property

In a highly competitive and rapidly evolving market, you need to be able to rely upon your expert legal advisers to deliver results as efficiently as possible.

Legal project management is the adaptation of traditional project management processes for legal matters. Find out how you can apply legal project management in your day-to-day. 

This practical session will be covering the following:

• Core principles in project management for professional services, including the PMBOK® Guide – 6th Ed
  
• Applied use of Microsoft OneNote for managing legal matters, including the use of Outlook tasks
  
• Using OneNote for agile management
  
•  Applied use of Microsoft Excel-based gantt charts (template is provided)
  
•  Experiential exercises in scoping
  
•  Core principles in stakeholder and change management
  
•  A process-mapping workshop (using a lean six-sigma approach)

This lunchtime seminar, presented by Martin Gorrick, will look at capacity issues, relevant to a lawyer’s practice, in two distinct contexts.

Firstly, by examining some of the key recommendations of the Australian Law Reform Commission's June, 2017 Report:  'Elder Abuse - A National Legal Response' (ALRC Report 131), such as a national online register of enduring appointment documents.

Secondly, by considering, with reference to decided cases, the way in which a testator’s cognitive impairment, falling short of a finding of lack of testamentary capacity, is nevertheless relevant to a Court’s determination of the essential validity of a challenged will.

• Introduction to Conveyancing
• Electronic Conveyancing
• Conveyancing Definitions
• Conveyancing - Private Treaty
• Preparation of the Contract
• Procedure Prior to Exchange
• Exchange
• Pre - Settlement
• Settlement
• Post Settlement
• Auction Sale

An overview will be given regarding:

• Other Titles
• Mortgages
• Leases
• Land Tax & Stamp Duty
• Personal Property Securities
• LPI Procedures
• Caveats
• Mortgagee Exercising Power of Sale
• Power of Attorney

• finance essentials and taxation strategies
• pricing your services and billing the client
• avoiding pitfalls in trust money and trust records
• leadership and management techniques
• hiring and training reliable staff
• managing risk
• business planning
• marketing methods to grow your business
• attracting and retaining clients
• ethics and responsibility

Online learning portal opens 3 August 2018

• Introduction to Wills and Probate
• Preparing a Will
• Preparation of Power of Attorney
• Gathering Information for the Application
• Preparing Application for Grant of Probate
• Receiving Grant of Probate
• Administration of Estates
• Distribution of Estate
• Letters of Administration