By completing this course, you will know how to stay open to various and creative solutions.

Knowledge area:

• Practice management and business skills

Having effective legal research skills is incredibly important throughout the legal career as legal research is crucial to the practice of law. Which resources should you be using to ensure that you are effectively and efficiently researching the law? Google might have a lot of the answers yet navigating the labyrinth of legal databases will continue to be necessary.

• a super searcher with Google;
• use Google Scholar and other resources for legal research;
• know how and when to use Wikipedia.

•  Professional skills

Being an effective lawyer means writing so that your clients can understand and act on your advice. But how do you communicate complex legal ideas to an audience with little or no legal knowledge?

Drawing on his experience as a professional writer, Ralph Grayden will show you simple techniques to improve your writing and build trust and understanding with your clients.

• Develop your own effective writing style
  
• Structure your writing
  
• Avoid common mistakes and debunk writing myths

• 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
  

This session explores how an SMSF can help you build your wealth. In particular, we focus on the benefits of an SMSF for small business owners.

Learning Outcomes:

• How an SMSF can help you build your wealth
• Issues to consider when establishing an SMSF
• Understand the advantages and disadvantages of having an SMSF
• Understand the advantages of an SMSF for small business owners

•  Practice Management and Business Skills
  

Selling a large firm is easy ... well relatively easy, when compared with the sale of a smaller firm. So many of these simply close their doors as equity holders quit or retire. But there are eight growth areas where value can be readily built and six selling 'plays' where this greater value can be realised.

The six selling 'plays' that John has developed are:

1. Intellectual Assets ... only
2. Absorption ... can include the consultants / advisors, and results in the sale of the enterprise to an established larger firm
3. Internal Protege ... can include the consultants / advisors, and results in the sale of the enterprise (boutique) to a lead consultant / advisor from within the enterprise
4. External Protege ... can include the consultants / advisors, and results in the sale of the enterprise to a lead consultant / advisor with a consulting / advisory background
5. Collaboration ... may not include the consultants / advisors, and is an interim step towards the Absorption 'play'
6. Build & Consolidate ... effectively a 'do nothing for a while play' ... just continue to build the current enterprise.

By the end of the session you will have a reasonable idea of which 'play' is right for you.

Key Learning Outcomes:

• The ability to identify which of eight growth areas have the best potential for growth within your enterprise
• An understanding of the specific tactics for growth within those potential areas, sufficient for you to identify where to take action
• An insight into six selling 'plays', sufficient for you to identify and rank those which you will further investigate in detail.

This course will show you how to meet with your co-workers to learn more about their past work experience, their current role and responsibilities, as well as their core strengths and capabilities. By completing this course, you will know how to build relationships with colleagues to learn about their role, skills, and expertise.

By completing this course, you will know how to build relationships with colleagues to learn about their role, skills, and expertise.

This course is designed to build your skills to create and realise ideas. 

The following topics will be covered:

• Seek Out the Ideas and Opinions of Others
• Seeking Out Cutting Edge Ideas
• Show Good Judgement Regarding Creative Ideas
• When Are You Most Creative?

You can find a full description of each module here.

By completing this course, you will learn how to shift your mindset to successfully build trust and lead others in the virtual environment.

This course will teach you what you can do to get to know your colleagues and co-workers. By completing this course, you will know how to build trust with others by building relationships with your colleagues.

•  Professional Skills
  

Join Shelley Marsh from Marsh Financial Advice as she explores how a Margin Loan can help you build your wealth for busy professionals.

Key Learning Outcomes:

1. Understand how a margin loan works and how it can be used to build wealth over time
2. Understand LVR's, margin calls and buffers
3. Understand the risks involved in margin lending

•  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

In the world of civil disputes, there are a variety of methods of settlement negotiations that can be utilised. Calderbank offers and offers of compromise are important tools in trying to achieve settlement.

• Calderbank offers
• offers of compromise
• recent case law

• Practice management and business skills

Join us for this short seminar to hear Deputy President Schyvens discuss this contentious issue and the impact for lawyers and medical personnel.This podcast discusses this contentious issue and the impact for lawyers and medical personnel.

• cognitive impairment & the impact on lawyers

•  Substantive Law
  

On 1 March 2018 the amendments to the Environmental Planning & Assessment Act 1979 are set to come into force. This session will outline the key changes to the Act and tell you what you need to know to prepare for these significant changes.

Key Learning Outcomes:

• Understand the key changes to the Environmental Planning & Assessment Act 1979 that came into force on 1 March 2018
• Know why these changes have been made to the planning system
• Be familiar with the new structure and numbering of the Act
• Know what changes are still to come