• Ethics and professional responsibility

Key topics covered include:

• A scenario upon which the course is based
• Prior to the hearing
• Arriving at court
• Engaging in discussions
• The etiquette of appearing
• The substance of your appearance
• Problems you might encounter

• Effective Business Communication
• Effective Emails

You can find a full description of each module here.

This course will help you evaluate the current effectiveness of your decision making skills, and determine what you can do to develop your decision making skills and strengthen your job performance and leadership skills. By completing this course, you will know how to evaluate the effectiveness of your decision-making capabilities.

• who should be joined as parties or served with notices, including consideration of issues that arise when caveats are lodged or when there is 'notional estate'
• what type of evidence the Court expects
• what the court expects from practitioners in case management and costs

• Practice management and business skills

This course covers the following subjects:

• Introduction
• Jurisdiction Issues
• Limitation Periods and Claims Under the SOP Act
• Procedure
• Insurance Issues
• Termination Issues
• Defective Work Issues
• Variation Issues
• Payment Issues
• Delay Issues
• Costs
• The New Reforms
• Questions and Discussion

•  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

This course is designed to build conflict management skills.

The following topics will be covered:

• Manage Conflict With Others
• Learn from a Conflict Management Expert

You can find a full description of each module here.

This course is designed to provide you with the tools you need to effectively manage a team remotely.

The following topics will be covered:

• Keys to remote accountability
• Building trust with remote teams
• Classic leadership with a remote twist
• Applying coaching remotely
• Collaborative goal setting at a distance
• Giving remote feedback

You can find the full description for each module here.

• Gaining awareness elder abuse and its dynamics
• Understand the role solicitors can play in minimisation
• Ability to navigate through the various judgements and precedents and use these to better advise clients
• Understanding Inter-generational wealth – the good, the bad and the outrageous

This course will provide a suggestion list of action you can implement to increase your empathy towards others. You will select just one or two actions you are willing to work on and use throughout your day. By completing this course, you will know how to assess the level of empathy you show others.

In this content-drenched world, readers don’t want essays. They want snappy, informative pieces of writing which are well-written, relevant and compelling.

Content can be defined as “information and experiences that provide value for an end-user.” Content can be delivered via many different media. The module Writing engaging content to attract new clients highlights the issues with new media and how to address these issues in your writing.

•  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.

•  Ethics and Professional Responsibility
  

Steve Mark presents 6 hypothetical cases involving:

1. Questionably obtained documents
2. Using social media to gather information
3. Using metadata to interrogate a document
4. Client/Lawyer relationship
5. Defamation
6. Multitasking for multiple clients

•  Ethics and Professional Responsibility
  

Linden Barnes discusses the top ethical issues facing lawyers today.

Key Learning Outcomes

• Awareness of some of the ethical difficulties our profession encounters,
• Identification when they arise for us,
• Strategies to analyse them, and
• Solutions to resolve

• Ethics and professional responsibility 

The ethics of civil actions generally is something rarely considered. Lawyers are typically concerned about personal professional ethics rather than with broader ethical questions. 

This course looks at the broader questions such as conflict of interests between litigation funders and applicants, the problems around cost risks, and summarises the Australian Law Reform Commission Report delivered in January 2019, Integrity, Fairness and Efficiency—An Inquiry into Class Action Proceedings and Third-Party Litigation Funders.

• Ethics & professional responsibility 

Successful damages claims against tobacco companies are rare but on 23 March 2002, Eames J of the Supreme Court of Victoria struck out the defence of British American Tobacco Company Australia Services Limited (‘BAT Australia’) and awarded judgement to the plaintiff, 51 year old Rolah McCabe.

Part one of this course looked at the McCabe case and reviewed how it was run, with a focus on the discovery process.  It highlighted the issues around the adversarial system regarding document destruction and consequences. 

Part 2 focuses on the ethical issues raised in the McCabe case.

To understand:

• The tobacco litigation culture
• The relationship between the corporate lawyers and their clients 
• The paramount duty to the court
• The professional and ethical significance of the interdependence of corporate lawyers and their clients

This podcast will cover Rule 6.1.1, Ethics and Professional Responsibility. It complies with Rule 6.1 of the Legal Profession Uniform Continuing Professional Development (Solicitors) Rules 2015 under the Legal Profession Uniform Law 

• the overriding duty of a solicitor to the court and the obligations this imposes on a solicitor
• the duty of the solicitor to the client including the duty to advise and the solicitor’s duty of loyalty.
• the duty of the solicitor to avoid conflicts of interest

In this podcast Linden Barnes will provide a practical, interactive discussion using hypothetical situations to test your knowledge and think differently about how to manage ethical dilemmas.

• Ethical social media – getting your name out there ethically
• Courtesy online
• Confidentiality in a changing practice environment