Overview:

• Email scams
• Cyber fraud
• Insurance
• Cybercrime resources
• Cybercrime and eConveyancing
• Priority notices

Overview:

• What is an electronic signature?
• Sale of land and e-signatures
• e-signatures, guarantees and deeds
• Savings and limitations
• Preventing emails forming a binding contract
• Cases

Update on legal ethics for property lawyers

• Regulatory framework
• NSW Legal Profession Uniform Law
• Professional conduct & practice rules
• Dealing with the court & other lawyers
• Inadvertent disclosure
• Undertakings
• Dealing with the media

In this videocast, Duncan Young examines different leadership styles, including their strengths, blind spots, and how each style can impact the performance and culture of the teams that they lead.

In this videocast, communication expert Duncan Young will show you how to make verbal presentations and messaging persuasive.  Duncan will explain what makes communication engaging and compelling, what can detract from your message, and how to use storytelling to enliven your presentations.

This pre-recorded webinar explores how legal professionals can manage and prevent burnout in their practice.

An update on corporate law: Director's and Officer's duties.

The new Electronic Transactions Amendment (COVID-19 Witnessing of Documents) Regulation 2020 is now in effect and makes key changes to the legal requirements around the signing and witnessing of estate planning documents, in response to physical distancing measures. 

This videocast, led by a panel of estate planning experts, will examine both the theoretical and practical applications of the new legal requirements as they apply during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

In this webinar, experienced insolvency expert Ben Sewell will discuss how COVID-19 has affected corporate insolvency law and what legal practitioners can do right now for clients at risk of insolvency.

Join a panel of elder law experts as they discuss some of the recent developments in aged care and elder law, including

• Impact of COVID-19 and legislative amendments on privacy and records and the COVID-19 App

• Recent common law cases

• RV and Ministerial orders, screening and Orders regulating entry into residential aged care facilities (including flu vax)

• New visitor access code

• Duty of care and infection control

• Recent cases from the guardianship tribunal

• Newmarch House – legal implications for practitioners acting for staff and residents of aged care facilities that have tested positive for COVID-19

Kim Boettcher, Barrister, Frederick Jordan Chambers

Lucinda Smith, Partner, Thomson Geer Lawyers

Rodney Lewis, Senior Solicitor, Elderlaw legal services

Alison Choy Flannigan, Partner, Hall & Wilcox Smarter Law

This session will examine the relevant NSW legislation and case law concerning land tax and duties exemptions associated with land used for primary production, including some recent practical examples of where taxpayers and their advisers are encountering problems in successfully obtaining the various exemptions.

 Hear from one of The Law Society's regulatory compliance solicitors on risks in times of Covid-19 including:

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

Overview: 

In this session Tony Cahill will discuss: 

• the key factors driving the release of the new edition
• potential traps in using earlier editions of the contract
• the transitional arrangements for the prescribed cooling off notice
• residential off the plan law reform and its impact on the contract changes to the standard form relating to e-Conveyancing - interoperability, waivers and more
• GST residential withholding - changes to ATO procedures reflected in the contract
• other changes to the Contract

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