In this course we will focus on applying the six step Coaching Model. Broken down into six parts, this coaching model gives you a framework to effectively coach and support others. By completing this course, you will know how to apply the coaching model to your interactions with others.

• Practice management and business skills

• Overview of discovery
• Discovery – narrowing the categories
• What is a reasonable search?
• Consequences of insufficient discovery
• Jurisprudence

• Introduction to the NSW experience
• Function of discovery
• What is necessity and exceptional circumstances
• Practical consequences

This course will help you apply a simply communication technique to ensure you always communicate clear and concise messages. By completing this course, you will be able to use three communication elements to strengthen your ability to deliver clear and concise messages.

This course will help you get feedback on how well you communicate important information is a great thing to do. Feedback from others can help you know how to strengthen your messages, which ensures you are delivering information in the most effective way. By completing this course, you will know how to receive feedback from your team on how well you are communicating key messages.

This course will help you create a clear picture of your current level of expectations, and understand what you need to do more of, or differently, to unleash the power of positive expectations for yourself and for your team. By completing this course, you will know how to have positive expectations of others.

This course will help you think through the different types of audiences you communicate with, and then determine what you need to do to tailor your messages for the different audiences. By completing this course, you will know how to create communication reminders for the most frequent audiences you interact with.

•  Practice Management and Business Skills
  

Complying with Uniform laws

Key Learning Outcomes:

• The objectives of the law (Victoria & NSW)
• The changed responsibilities of principles
• A refresher on some basics
• Cost agreement requirements
• Disclosure obligations
• Consequences of disclosure failures
• Test for costs
• Where practitioners are going wrong

•  Substantive Law
  

With so much development such as Sydney Metro, Westconnex and Badgerys Creek airport, compulsory acquisition of land and businesses has become a prevalent problem in NSW. Learn when you are entitled to claim damages and how the compensation process works.

Key Learning Outcomes:

• Have an understanding of what is an interest in land
• Understand the process including the negotiation prior to any acquisition
• Learn how the Courts calculate damages for loss of land
• Learn how the Courts approach a business being relocated

• Substantive law

In this session Tony Cahill will discuss the recently issued joint copyright contract for the sale and purchase  of water entitlements.

• Limitations in using the former edition
• The expanded scope of the latest version – what is a “water entitlement”?
• Delivery mode of the standard form
• Completing pages 1 and 2 – the “variable” information
• Hydrogeological and similar surveys – who pays?
• More detailed “consent” provisions
• Other notable changes
• Registration of interests of water entitlements under Federal legislation

• Substantive law

This course is designed for all lawyers wishing to refresh their contract law knowledge.

Learning Outcomes: 

This one hour course is designed to make sure you are aware of:

• Terms implied by common Law (Part A)
• Terms implied by Statute (Part B)
• Illegal, void and unfair terms (Part C)
• The penalty doctrine (Part D)

This course will help you differentiate what you have control over and what you can influence makes a real difference. When we know what we directly control and what we can influence, we make better decisions at work, and become more effective leaders. By completing this course, you will be able to determine what you can control and influence to increase your personal and professional effectiveness.

• Practice management and business skills
  
• Substantive law
  

With significant changes impacting property practice, this 2-day program is specifically designed for solicitors wishing to gain a practical understanding of the administrative procedures involved in the purchase and sale of NSW residential conveyancing matters. 

You will leave with deepened knowledge and greater understanding of how to successfully advise on the sale and purchase of residential property to maximise the success of your property practice. 

 The course will cover: 

• Introduction to Conveyancing and conveyancing definitions

• Electronic Conveyancing 

• Conveyancing - Private Treaty 

• Preparation of the Contract 

• Procedure Prior to Exchange and Exchange 

• Pre – Settlement, Settlement and Post-Settlement 

• Auction Sale

This 1 day introductory program for support staff covers the basic administrative procedures involved in the purchase and sale of residential property in New South Wales. 

Topics covered: 

• 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

This course is suitable for all legal support staff with little to no experience in this area of law. Please note this course is not suitable for solicitors and does not qualify you to become a licensed conveyancer.               

This 1 day introductory program for support staff covers the basic administrative procedures involved in the purchase and sale of residential property in New South Wales. 

Topics covered: 

• 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

This course is suitable for all legal support staff with little to no experience in this area of law. Please note this course is not suitable for solicitors and does not qualify you to become a licensed conveyancer.               

• Costs disclosure and estimate 
  
• How the costs capping provisions operate 
  
• What security can a practitioner take for their fees 
  
• Costs assessment
  

• Practice management and business skills

The Legal Profession Uniform Law Application Bill was passed by the Victorian Parliament on 13 March 2014. A Bill applying the Uniform Law as a law of New South Wales was passed by the New South Wales Parliament on 13 May 2014 applicable as of 2015. The New South Wales and Victorian Governments have executed an Intergovernmental Agreement (IGA) formalising their joint participation in the new regulatory scheme.

• regulation of legal costs under the forth coming Legal Profession Uniform Law.
• disclosure and billing
• resolution of cost disputes either before the Legal Services Commissioner or on assessment

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