LawInform Courses

Expressing yourself

0.25 CPD units

0.25 CPD Units Online

	The way in which people present themselves can be affected by a number of factors, both social and cultural. Public speaking can be a daunting task and is often something that people fear. This module will provide you with advice and guidance on preparing your speech, finding your voice and presenting to others.
	Online

Feedback for great results

0.25 CPD units

0.25 CPD Units Online

While work can sometimes feel like it’s something we have to do (this is the case for most of us), the reality is that while we may have to work, it’s also true that we want to do our work well. If you’ve ever been in the situation, you know it doesn’t feel good not to do your best, to not know what you need to accomplish, and to not know if you’re doing things in the right way. The reason? We want to perform, we want to develop, and we want to be seen as a contributing member of the team.

One way to create a great work situation is to receive feedback on what we’re doing well and what we need to improve. Feedback helps us make corrections, do more of a good thing, and keeps us focused on the right work at the right time. While feedback often comes from our manager, we can also seek out feedback on our own. Our peers, co-workers, and customers are additional people who can help us identify the actions we can take to continue on the path towards excellence.

By completing this course, you will know the areas you need feedback on to deliver great results.

Online

FLIP 2018 Podcast: Australian Legal Innovation Landscape

0.75 CPD units

0.75 CPD Unit Podcast

	Knowledge area: Practice management and business skills
	Online
	Hear from some of our top legal innovators, thinkers and founders, working at the cutting edge of Australia’s legal landscape. How far have we come? How do we compare and what’s in store for the future of legal practice in this country? Those questions and more will be answered as we map out Australia’s legal innovation footprint and the opportunities for progress.
	Recorded on 14 September 2018
	David Bushby, Managing Director, Lexoo Australia Dr George Beaton, Executive Chairman, Beaton Research + Consulting and Executive Director, Firm Checker Jodie Baker, Founder and CEO, Xakia Technologies Ian Marshall, National Head of Legal Segment, Macquarie Business Banking

FLIP 2018 Podcast: Blurring the boundaries of legal practice: information, advice, service or product?

0.75 CPD units

0.75 CPD Unit Podcast

	Knowledge area: Practice management and business skills
	Online
	The legal services landscape is changing as a number of drivers create organic change from within, and exert pressure to change from outside the profession. Consumers of all kinds are demanding legal services of different levels of intensity depending on the nature of their problem. Legal and non-legal innovators are creating new products and platforms to deliver legal, or 'legalish' services, sometimes in the complete absence of legal practitioner oversite. The legal workforce is shifting in demographics and in ways of working, and lawyers and clients are connecting in new ways and in new forums.
	Recorded on 14 September 2018
	Commissioner Megan Pitt, Chief Executive Officer, Legal Services Council, Commissioner for Uniform Legal Services Regulation Commissioner John McKenzie, Commissioner, Office of the Legal Services Commissioner Rod Henderson, Founder and Chief Tac Counsel, Acutax Dominic Woolrych, Chief Executive Officer, LawPath Kate Fazio, Manager of Digital Innovation Strategies and Lawyer, Justice Connect Chrissie Lighfoot, Chief Chief Executive Officer, Robot Lawyer LISA, Chief Executive Officer, Entrepreneur Lawyer Ltd.

FLIP 2018 Podcast: Future of Law and Innovation in the Profession - Podcasts

5 CPD units

Podcast

	The FLIP Conference is the innovation event of the year that will give you the tools to survive and thrive in an ever-changing legal landscape. Explore ways to accelerate your personal and legal business brand through transformation and growth. Leverage key and emerging technologies to increase agility and achieve more with less.
	Online
	This course gives access to all podcasts recorded at the conference.
	Recorded on 14 September 2018
	Various

FLIP 2018 Podcast: Future of Law and Innovation in the Profession - Small talks

0.75 CPD units

0.75 CPD Unit Podcast

	Knowledge area: Practice management and business skills
	Online
	Topics covered: Mindfulness in Law Rule of Law and Innovation Legal education in a technological world Cyber Fraud - aware and prepared Evolving Digital Leadership
	Recorded on 14 September 2018
	Julien Remond, CEO, Awaken Mind Myfanwy Wallwork, Executive Director, Emerging Markets and Corporate, LexisNexis Erika Ly, NSW President, Legal Forecast and Associate Professor Lyria Bennett Moses, Director, Allens Hub for Technology, Law and Innovation Malcolm Heath, Legal Risk Manager, Lawcover James Brett, Author and Founder, Curiously Pty Ltd

FLIP 2018 Podcast: Leading Edge or Bleeding Edge? Lessons from the implementation of the latest legal technology

0.75 CPD units

0.75 CPD Unit Podcast

	Knowledge area: Practice management and business skills
	Online
	There are many types of new technical products for lawyers on the market at present. However, many of them are difficult to implement in practice or require additional work to be done before they can be used effectively. This session will discuss the types of problems that the latest tools can solve for lawyers and practical lessons that have been learned by firms and organisations that have tried to implement them.
	Recorded on 14 September 2018
	Michael Pattison, Founder, ContractProbe Associate Professor Lyria Bennett Moses, Director, Allens Hub for Technology, Law and Innovation Shengshi Zhao, Manager, Clayton Utz Forensics and Technology Services Dev Mookerjee, Chief Technology Officer, IBM Watson Solutions, Asia Pacific Licheng Zeng, Chief Technology Officer, Meaningware Pty Ltd

FLIP 2018 Podcast: Legal Risk Management in the Cyber World

0.75 CPD units

0.75 CPD Unit Podcast

	Knowledge area: Practice management and business skills
	Online
	With the rapid digital transformation of organisations and governments across the globe and the resulting increased digital access to sensitive information and critical services, cyber risks are increasing. It’s a brand new world operating under an outdated legal framework where there is limited precedent combined with new threats and vulnerabilities being identified all the time. The resulting potential exposure for organisations and individuals remains unclear. Likewise, the steps needed to protect oneself are not properly communicated nor widely understood. Most people are still trying to come to terms with this all. So what is really going on and how does anyone navigate this new world? For legal professionals, understanding their own professional risk is complex enough. However they also need to be able to understand the evolving law and risks facing their clients. This panel will demystify the current volatile environment and provide answers to a range of similar questions.
	Recorded on 14 September 2018
	Dr Maria Milosavljevic, NSW Government Chief Information Security Officer (GCISO), NSW Department of Finance, Services and Innovation Peter Leonard, Principal, Data Synergies Shoshana Shields, Director of Legal, Google Australia and New Zealand Professor David Lacey, Managing Director, IDCARE Patrick Gunning, Partner, King & Wood Mallesons

FLIP 2018 Podcast: Make Law Better - The Legal Innovation Agenda in Vectors and Phases

0.75 CPD units

0.75 CPD Unit Podcast

	Knowledge area: Practice management and business skills
	Online
	Artificial Intelligence. Blockchain. The Internet of Things. At no time in the brief history of legal technology has there been a convergence of so many powerful new innovations, each creating both opportunities and perils for how lawyers can serve their clients. In this keynote, Professor Dan Katz offers a provocative view of the near future: how lawyers should embrace innovation and these new technologies if they want to achieve greater professional success or merely ensure their economic survival.
	Recorded on 14 September 2018
	Professor Daniel Martin Katz, Associate Professor of Law, Chicago Kent College of Law

FLIP 2018 Podcast: Roadmap for Legal Department Transformation

0.75 CPD units

0.75 CPD Unit Podcast

	Knowledge area: Practice management and business skills
	Online
	The session will provide a practical guide for legal departments on transforming and innovating using new technology and impactful initiatives, including mapping out workflows and capturing data-driven insights to identify current, transitional and desired future state. You will hear insights from leading Australian in-house teams, inclusive of tips, traps and lessons-learned from transforming legal department services using new tools, process, sourcing models and technology.
	Recorded on 14 September 2018
	Steven Walker, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Gen2Law Rebecca Daumont, Manager E-Litigation, Australian Government Solicitor Dispute Resolution Andrew Finch, General Counsel & Group Executive, Office of the CEO, Qantas Airways Limited Denise Doyle, Legal Transformation Lead, Telstra Samantha Brown, Attorney, Microsoft

FLIP 2018 Podcast: Smart Contracts and Blockchain

0.75 CPD units

0.75 CPD Unit Podcast

	Knowledge area: Substantive law
	Online
	Overview: A Brave New World for Open Data - a hypothetical exploring how Blockchain technology can manage digital identity and land titles registration in Ruritania. The Digitisation of Land Titles Registration Act enables fast and secure searches of registration of real property. Land in Ruritania can now be bought and sold online, as well as the registration of mortgages, caveats, easements and other interests that need to be registered on the certificate of title. Ruritania’s legal system is modelled on the Australian.
	Recorded on 14 September 2018
	Dr Philippa Ryan, Barrister & Senior Lecturer, UTS Stevie Ghiassi, Chief Executive Officer, Legal Aid Hannah Glass, Senior Associate, King & Wood Mallesons Dr Mark Staples, Conjoint Associate Professor, School of Computer Science and Engineering, UNSW Senior Principal Researcher, Data61 and CSIRO Keith Redenbach, Partner, Redenbach Lee

FLIP 2018 Podcast: The Future You - Legal Professionals in the Uber Era

0.75 CPD units

0.75 CPD Unit Podcast

	Knowledge area: Professional skills
	Online
	This session will explore changes in the legal industry - especially during the past decade - that are reshaping how, when, with whom, and for whom legal professionals work. “Knowing the law” was once enough to secure a lawyer a predictable, comfortable career. That’s no longer the case. Legal delivery now involves legal, business, and technological expertise, and most lawyers will not have traditional “practice” careers as past generations have. That means that they must acquire skills to supplement their legal knowledge - data analytics, project management, personal branding, etc. Those skills - and how to acquire them - will be discussed.
	Recorded on 14 September 2018
	Mark Cohen Esq, Chief Executive Officer, Legal Mosaic

FLIP 2018 Podcast: The Paperless Practitioner: Virtual Legal Service Delivery

0.75 CPD units

0.75 CPD Unit Podcast

	Knowledge area: Practice management and business skills
	Online
	Overview: Sole practitioners, small firms, and under-resourced in-house counsel embracing a paperless practice confront unique problems with litigation over comparatively modest amounts of money. Learn the difference between practice management software, software to conduct litigation using less paper, and how to use them together. Leave this session armed with advice about how it can be done from those who have done it before at little or no cost: a judge, a barrister, and a solicitor.
	Recorded on 14 September 2018
	Philippe Doyle-Gray, Barrister, 8 Wentworth Chambers Jessica Der Matossian, Registrar, Digital Practice Principal Registry, Federal Court of Australia Brendan Smart, Chief Executive Officer of LEAP Legal Software, Australia Roxanne Hart, Director, oLegal The Honourable Justice Tim Moore, Land and Environment Court

FLIP 2018 Podcast: Unbundling for Access to Justice and Commercial Law

0.75 CPD Unit Podcast

	Knowledge area: Generic
	Online
	There are many drivers that continue to fuel the trend towards the unbundling of legal services, or the deconstruction of a legal service down into a set of constituent tasks. Amongst these are the affordability or cost of services, the limited availability of legal aid and pro bono services for individuals, the increased competition for various aspects of litigious and transactional matters, all of which is facilitated by developments in technology. This session will look at this trend from the perspectives of clients in the legal assistance sector, in-house corporate counsel, and from a litigious and transactional perspective to discuss the implications (risks, opportunities and responses) for clients and legal service providers. As unbundling cuts across a number of legal sectors, there is an opportunity for each sector to learn from the other.
	Recorded on 14 September 2018
	Professor Michael Legg, Professor, UNSW Law Director John Corker, Chief Executive Officer, Australian Pro Bono Centre Andrea Perry - Petersen, Consultant Katrina Johnson, Associate General Counsel & Head of APAC Legal, Uber

FLIP 2019 Podcast: Change leadership for a dynamic profession

1 CPD units

1 CPD Unit Podcast

	Knowledge area: Self assessed
	Online
	FLIP expresses the Law Society’s commitment to help prepare lawyers for a dynamic, uncertain and exciting future, in short, for change. Research indicates that lawyers are typically ill-equipped for change – they tend to avoid it, see it as stressful and/or a hassle, and are usually not taught how to lead or manage change in their organisations and their own working lives. This session will empower practitioners by giving them an in-depth understanding of what change looks like across the profession, and then ‘best practice’ strategies for them to set their own visions of change and to pursue them effectively. The session includes interview findings with lawyers and legal change managers, identifying the lessons of their change processes.
	Recorded at the FLIP conference on 25 July 2019
	Dr Felicity Bell, FLIP Stream Research Fellow, UNSW Law Dr Justine Rogers Senior Lecturer, UNSW Deputy Director, Law Society of NSW FLIP Stream, Law and Innovation, UNSW Law

FLIP 2019 Podcast: Digital transformation and institutional integration: how do we fit in?

0.75 CPD units

0.75 CPD Unit Podcast

	Knowledge area: Self assessed
	Online
	This panel discussion will feature a range of speakers from courts and regulators who will explore the opportunities and challenges presented by the unfolding digital transformation taking place within those organisations. A wide range of relevant issues will be explored by panelists, including: How their organisations will seek to balance the benefits of the use of technology with issues of fairness to the digitally disadvantaged citizen and to participants in technology-driven proceedings How to ensure that AI makes courts and regulatory bodies more accessible for all users and stakeholders while mitigating any biases that may be inherent in algorithm reasoning that underpins AI Whether existing laws and regulatory frameworks will remain sufficient for the outcomes created by digital transformation within our courts and regulators What new tools and practices the legal profession will need to become proficient in order to represent clients in the court system and regulatory authorities Issues of privacy and equity which might arise as a result of any integration of data from other government agencies with data held by courts and regulators
	Recorded at the FLIP conference on 25 July 2019
	Helen Brown Solicitor, Office of General Counsel, The University of Sydney (Moderator) Jessica Der Matossian, Registrar, Digital Practice Principal Registry, Federal Court of Australia Benjamin Fogwell, Senior Manager, Resolution & Corporate Group, Legal Australian Prudential Regulation Authority Arthur Kopsias APM, Detective Superintendent, Commander High Tech Crime Branch, Forensic Evidence and Technical Forensics Command, NSW Police Force

FLIP 2019 Podcast: Evolving legal services ecosystem

0.75 CPD Unit Podcast

	Knowledge area: Self assessed
	Online
	Only a few short years ago, organisations requiring legal services faced a simple choice: whether to employ lawyers ‘in-house’ or to engage law firms, or commonly, a combination of the two. Over the last decade, consistent with overseas trends, a diverse range of new providers has emerged in the Australian legal marketplace, from NewLaw businesses, to online providers, to Law Companies and LPO/LSO, LegalTech companies, flex-lawyer businesses and legal marketplaces, to name just a few. It is a complex supply ecosystem and buyers of legal services now enjoy greater choice than ever before. There are no indicators to suggest the trend will reverse in the coming years; in all likelihood, it will accelerate. The number of new entrants, many with new business and legal service delivery models, some which may be based outside of Australia due to the forces of globalisation, continue to multiply, as do the traditional law firms reinventing their offerings. This practical and lively panel session will discuss questions such as how should law firms pivot and adapt to take advantage of the opportunities and rise to the challenges of the new legal service ecosystem? How does a legal department get fit for this future? How do providers survive and thrive and how do buyers reap the rewards?
	Recorded at the FLIP conference on 25 July 2019
	Joel Barolsky, Managing Director, Barolsky Advisors Anna Golovsky, Executive Manager, Agility and Legal Operations IAG Warren Kalinko, CEO, Keypoint Law Richard McCabe, Associate Director, Banking & Financial Services, Macquarie Bank Steven Walker, Managing Director, Consulting, Elevate (Moderator)

FLIP 2019 Podcast: FLIP Conference 2019

CPD units: 1 unit per hour Podcast

	Knowledge area: Self assessed
	Online
	Following last year's success, the Future of Law and Innovation in the Profession (FLIP) Conference and Innovation Dinner returns in 2019 to host more than 50 Australian and international leaders in law, innovation and technology. The 2019 podcasts feature content from three concurrent Conference streams including: Thought Leadership: Big thinkers push the boundaries as they present on key issues impacting the legal profession including regulation, ethics and duties of competence. Leading with Innovation: Five practical sessions on the evolution of legal service delivery designed to guide you through the change process.
	Recorded at the FLIP conference on 25 July 2019
	Various

FLIP 2019 Podcast: FLIP small talks 2019

0.75 CPD units

0.75 CPD Unit Podcast

	Knowledge area: Self assessed
	Online
	Ride the wave of change Hear firsthand from PEXA member Wood Marshall Williams, who will share insights into their experience with digital disruption and navigating through the new e-conveyancing landscape. AI and the rule of law in government decision making Governments around the world are using automation tools such as AI and expert systems to make decisions about rights and entitlements like social security benefits. Australia's Robo-debt system is a good example. This presentation examines the tension between the use of automation by government and the rule of law. It asks whether the rule of law is consistent with machines rather than humans being involved in the making of important government decisions. Space law How are commercial transactions different when they involve a space activity? Most commercial legal practitioners are familiar with the legal conventions associated with the sale and purchase of equipment and services. When this equipment is designed to be launched into space or the service involves the movement or operation of objects in space, the regulatory environment and risk management drivers are very different. Unlike equipment that is located on earth, most space-based assets cannot be accessed for recovery or repair if something goes wrong. This has led to a treatment of concepts like negligence, liability and insurance that differs from terrestrial transactions. Some of the conventional ways of treating these concepts are surprising to practitioners who are unfamiliar with the space industry. This presentation will outline some of the key concepts that underpin commercial relationships when the transaction has an outer space dimension, starting with the purchase of spacecraft and launch services.
	Recorded on 25 July 2019
	Karen Olsen Executive Manager, Practitioner Market, PEXA Charles Parisi Wood Marshall Williams Professor George Williams AO Dean Anthony Mason Professor, Scientia Professor, UNSW Donna Lawler Co-Founder and Principal, Azimuth Advisory

FLIP 2019 Podcast: Implications of technology on Lawyers' professional duties

0.75 CPD units

0.75 CPD Unit Podcast

	Knowledge area: Self assessed
	Online
	Lawyers are increasingly facing technological challenges of operating in the digital age. Cloud-based computer software applications, such as email accounts, file storage and file sharing, are commonly used by lawyers as part of the everyday practice of law. Lawyers are using legal-tech software applications provided by non-lawyer third parties that rely on artificial intelligence to deliver legal solutions. Fundamental to the lawyer’s practice of law is the duty to deliver legal services competently. As guardians of client sensitive information, lawyers also have confidentiality and privacy obligations. In this session, our panel will discuss practical ways lawyers can use technology in a manner that is compatible with the lawyers’ professional obligations, including supervision of the use of software services, understanding the benefits and risks associated with technology and maintaining the requisite level of technology competence relevant to their practice.
	Recorded at the FLIP conference on 25 July 2019
	Malcolm Heath, Legal Risk Manager, Lawcover Rod Henderson, Founder and Chief Tax Counsel, Acutax Simone Herbert-Lowe, Solicitor and Director, Law & Cyber Pty Ltd Commissioner John McKenzie, Legal Services Commissioner (Moderator) Lyn Nicholson, General Counsel Corporate & Commercial, Holding Redlich

FLIP 2019 Podcast: Keeping up with the changing choices of clients

0.75 CPD units

0.75 CPD Unit Podcast

	Knowledge area: Self assessed
	Online
	The needs, wants and desires of the legal profession’s diverse clients are in flux as the future unfolds. Some will be spoilt for choice, while others will have few options. This panel will explore the similarities and differences of clients from all corners of the community. Our aim is to make you think, make you reflect and make you decide how you can contribute to the future of your legal service delivery. This session will also explore how clients’ needs are changing, if the needs of B2B and B2C clients are fundamentally different, what the needs, wants and desires of clients are and how well lawyers cater for them, and if trends in clients’ buying behaviours are being driven by lawyers or by clients.
	Recorded at the FLIP conference on 25 July 2019
	Dr George Beaton, Executive Chairman, Beaton Research and Consulting (Moderator) Craig Emergy, Executive Legal Business Partner, Legal and Corporate Affairs, Telstra Anna Hinder, Principal, Searl Street Consulting Dr Hugh McDonald, Senior Researcher, The Law & Justice Foundation Jennie Pakula, Manager, Innovation and Consumer Engagement, Victorian Legal Services Board and Commissioner

FLIP 2019 Podcast: Lawyering in 2050 – Robots in suits or just a slightly better version of 2019?

0.75 CPD units

0.75 CPD Unit Podcast

	Knowledge area: Self assessed
	Online
	It’s instructive to look 30 years back and see how far we’ve come, and then to look 30 years forward and see what is coming. Mitch takes a practical, non-hyped, look at the new skill-sets, new areas of law, trends and technology that will keep private practices of all sizes, in-house departments and government lawyers sustainable up to 2050.
	Recorded on 25 July 2019
	Mitch Kowalski, Barrister, Solicitor and Consultant, Gowling WLG Visiting Professor in Legal Innovation, Calgary Law School

FLIP 2019 Podcast: Making science fiction our reality

0.75 CPD units

0.75 CPD Unit Podcast

	Knowledge area: Self assessed
	Online
	Discover new opportunities by harnessing future technology today. With Amazon experimenting in drone delivery, replacement parts being printed and shipped locally for super-fast delivery and robots replacing mundane repetitive roles, there's a new world ripe for the taking with emergent technologies. In this fascinating and insightful keynote, Shara will: Look at the major technology trends that your business can embrace today; show how drones, robots, AI and 3D printing are changing society. Learn how companies around the world are using tech to innovate for competitive advantage and help your organisation understand what technologies will impact you.
	Recorded at the FLIP conference on 25 July 2019
	Shara Evans, Founder and CEO, Market Clarity

FLIP 2019 Podcast: The Great Debate

1 CPD units

1 CPD Unit Podcast

	Knowledge area: Self assessed
	Online
	The legal services landscape is changing, but will this result in a profession that better meets consumer needs and expectations and improves access to justice? Clients are seeking greater value, competition is increasing and there is a growing expectation that lawyers be competent users of technology. Are any additional safeguards needed to protect consumers of legal services? Legal and non-legal innovators are creating new products and platforms to deliver legal advice or information, sometimes in the complete absence of legal practitioner oversight. Are these innovative low-cost, non-legal, providers placing solicitors at a competitive disadvantage? The Great Debate will examine some of the changes that are occurring in the delivery of legal services and will address the opportunities this raises. It will also address difficult questions about whether regulatory barriers are holding back innovation, where legal practice boundaries lie and whether these boundaries need to be better enforced, redrawn or reimagined. The Hon. Michael Kirby AC CMG will adjudicate a battle of wits between Elizabeth Espinosa for the affirmative and Commissioner John McKenzie for the negative as their teams go head to head in the The Great Debate. Only at FLIP Conference 2019.
	Recorded on 25 July 2019
	The Honourable Michael Kirby AC CMG (Judge) Commissioner John McKenzie, Legal Services Commissioner for NSW Dr Felicity Bell, FLIP Stream Research Fellow, UNSW Law Philippe Doyle Gray, Barrister, 8 Wentworth Chambers Dominic Woolrych CEO, LawPath Elizabeth Espinosa President, The Law Society of New South Wales Talitha Fishburn Barrister, Wardell Chambers Sam Flynn Co- Founder and COO Josef Tahlia Gordon Co-Founder and Co-Director, Creative Consequences and Lecturer, Ethics and Professional Responsibility, University of Sydney