•  Practice Management and Business Skills
  

With a globalised economy and disruption there is a greater need for meetings to build teams, effect collaboration and resolve issues. The speed at which matters move has increased as have expectations of partners, peers and clients. Meetings are now often larger, with more diverse stakeholders. To be successful meetings now need to be efficient, effective and deliver outcomes.

We can increase our efficiency by having tools.

Key Learning Outcomes

• Set agendas more productively
• Have a structured tool for preparing for meetings.
• Formulate goals, process and style
• Decide who to invite
• Minute meetings without arguments developing
• Deal with roadblocks
• Make outcomes stick

•  Substantive Law
  

This session discusses some recent and somewhat unusual cases that have come before the Courts involving estates and Will disputes, and how you can use them. You will learn unique rules of law which can be applied to both the corporate world as well as estate litigation, and options for structuring estate plans when managing multiple relationships.

•  Substantive Law
  

Learn how to avoid cost blowouts, how to properly brief counsel and how to manage risk in litigation.

Topics covered include:

• Overview of litigation risks
• How to properly brief counsel
• Managing the relationship with your Barrister(s)
• Managing the relationship with your Client
• How to avoid cost blowouts

•  Substantive Law
  

This session aims to provide a reflection on the New South Wales workers' compensation system, with particular emphasis on how to work successfully with the myriad legislative amendment and current policy. Employer responsibilities, and the importance of early intervention and effective management of injured workers with a view to encouraging a successful return to work outcome will be discussed. There will also be general discussion regarding the course a claim for workers compensation will take when it is disputed and referred to the Workers Compensation Commission for dispute resolution

Topics covered include:

• An introduction to the workers compensation system in NSW
• Fundamental housekeeping relevant to claims for workers compensation
• Effective management, rehabilitation and return to work of injured workers
• The envisaged course of a disputed claim for workers compensation.

•  Substantive Law
  

This session will cover the following topics:

• When is a caveat the right tool?
• What is the downside of a misconceived caveat?
• How to detect a caveatable interest.
• What are alternative measures when there is no caveatable interest?
• Procedural tips for lodgement and removal.
• Illustrative cases.

•  Practice Management and Business Skills
  

Join Bronwyn Pott as she discusses strategies to improve time management for both teams and individuals.

Key Learning Outcomes:

• Bringing the right headspace to work
• Efficiency -v- effectiveness - you'll need both
• System - what system?  Getting to the work
• Mastering your technology - and delegation
• Setting goals to facilitate team work

•  Substantive Law
  

This session will cover an introduction to the process of buying and selling online businesses.

Key Learning Outcomes:

• Identify the critical assets to be transferred in the sale of an online business
• Quickly verify online account details for websites, hosting, social media accounts etc
• Highlight key areas of risk in online transactions
• Understand an advisor's role in the settlement process
• Be better prepared to understand and meet client expectations in the transaction process

•  Substantive Law
  

This session covers the following topics:

• Know what the current FIRB application fees are and varying forms of approval;
• What is a foreign person?
• What is a foreign trust?
• When it is best to apply for FIRB approval for a client.
• What to do if a contract is not subject to a purchaser obtaining FIRB approval.

•  Substantive Law
  

This session will bring you up to speed on recent developments including consideration of some of the more interesting and recent cases in the technology space that may have a material impact on the way you conduct business.

Tal Williams, Technology Partner, will assist you to identify practical strategies to minimise risk for your company in relation to electronic contacts and transactions, data storage and privacy, and electronic signatures.

Key Learning Outcomes:

• Identify issues arising from use of electronic signatures
• Awareness of enforceability of click and browse wrap agreements
• Identify issues in relation to privacy obligations
• Awareness of basic cyber security protocols to minimise risk of attack

Financial statements prepared using accounting rules are required by many stakeholders, including owners, creditors, government etc. This presentation has as its objective the development of accounting knowledge so as to be able read and interpret financial statements.

Overall, you will gain an understanding of the how accounting information provides a valuable insight into business operations. You will be able to utilise this knowledge to analyse and investigate business operations.

Facilitator overview: Greg Pazmandy is a senior lecturer in accounting at UTS specialising in the areas of business analysis and valuation. His research interests include capital markets and corporate governance issues.

An understanding of accounting terminology and the information products generated by the accounting system is a fundamental requirement for business professionals as accounting:

• Is the measurement language used in all aspects of commercial, government and not for profit sector operations

• Processes are supported by regulations in the form of standards as well as legislative pronouncements that underpin the preparation and presentation of financial reports
• Knowledge of the information content of financial reports provides the fundamental knowledge required for the operating, investing and financing activities of business organisations.

Reading and Interpreting Financial Statements

• What is the relationship between business and accounting?
• Business – Physical and Financial Aspects
• Are there rules and regulations covering the preparation of accounting reports?
• Accounting language – what are the five “5” most common terms?
• What is an accrual and how do they impact on business?
• How do I investigate a business organisation using financial statements?

This practical course will develop participant skills to:

• Be comfortable with reading financial reports
• Be familiar with finance and accounting terminology
• Understand the impact of transactions on the financial performance, financial position and cash flows of a business
• Use financial reports to generate business intelligence
• Gain insight into how financial statements are prepared
• Use financial analysis tools to identify the strengths, weaknesses and risks of a company
• Use financial statements to gain a more meaningful insight into a business from a stakeholder perspective, be it owner, government, creditor, etc.

• Early simplified prosecution disclosure 
  
• DPP charge certification 
  
• Abolition of Magistrates power to discharge at committal 
  
• Fixed discounts for pleas of guilty
  

•  Substantive Law
  

Hear from some of the industry's leading experts as they explore pivotal issues that every Employment Law practitioner needs to know.

This seminar will cover the following topics:

• Modern Slavery: What do employers need to know
• Sexual Harassment in the #metoo era
• Prison sentences for WHS offences

• Professional skills
  

Join our expert executive coach Rachel Setti as she provides you with the understanding and tools to successfully navigate work and life challenges.

This session will cover the following topics:   

• Approaching work and life challenges productively
  
• Increased self-awareness of your own response to difficult situations
• Recovering more effectively from setbacks
  
• A suite of skills and techniques to overcome everyday mindset challenges

• Professional skills

• how to prepare for a negotiation in a more strategic way 
  
• how to evaluate what is happening while it is happening 
  
• how to build repertoire 
  

• what are the traps that diminish our power at the table? 
  
• what are some strategic thinking tools for analysis and preparation?
  

Dr Rosemary Howell, Chairman, Strategic Action Pty Ltd, Professorial Visiting Fellow, University of NSW

• Ethics & Professional Responsibility
• Practice Management & Business skills
• Professional Skills 
• Substantive Law 

This program complies with the Rule 6.1 of the Legal Profession Uniform Continuing Professional Development (Solicitors) Rules 2015 under the Legal Profession Uniform Law requirements of Practice Management, Ethics and Professional Skills, and Substantive Law (4 CPD units).

Paul Monaghan, Senior Ethics Solicitor, The Law Society of NSW

Glenda Carry, Regulatory Compliance Solicitor, The Law Society of NSW 

Sue-Ella Prodonovich, Principal, Prodonovich Advisory

Michael Tiyce, Principal, Tiyce & Lawyers  

• Practice management and business skills
  
• Professional skills
  

One year on from the Notifiable Data Breaches scheme, join leading industry experts as, through the use of case studies, they reflect on 2018 and how the cyber landscape in Australia has changed, as well as what is in store for 2019. Our experts will also address data protection and breach of confidentiality, the risks facing your organisation following a cyber incident and key trends in cyber incident response including a deep dive on the impacts of cybercrime. Real life examples of the claims being made on Group Cyber and Professional Indemnity policies will be explored. 

The seminar will cover the following topics:

• How has the market responded to cybercrime? Key trends in cyber incident response
• The legal, business and operational issues impacting your organisation following a cyber incident
• Still a risk to your organisation? The importance of third party vendor risk management
• Protecting confidentiality of client data after Panama Papers and Paradise Papers
• Examine new exposures to claims for breach of duty of confidentiality
• Private actions for breaches of data privacy rights, including plaintiff class actions
• What the Barbican Group Cyber Policy covers for legal practices insured with Lawcover
• War stories from the claims made to date on the Group Cyber Policy
• War stories from the claims for third party loss on the Professional Indemnity Policy
• Elements of a successful forensic investigation, both technical and operational
• Leveraging forensic investigation findings to inform other areas of an organisation’s response 
• Current statistics on Cybercrime events involving solicitors in NSW
•  Vulnerabilities to any security system