•  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

•  Substantive Law
  

Why are we talking and thinking about Duress?

Family Lawyers are often social first responders.  We carry the canary in the underground mine. We experience real life society as it evolves while being required to interpret that experience on the delayed response of judicial interpretation.

Key Learning Outcomes:

• Refresh knowledge of the equitable concept of Duress
• Understand where and how Duress is used in the Family Law Act
• Reflect on power and its misuse in the real world of relationships

•  Practice Management and Business Skills
  

Join Bronwyn Pott as she discusses strategies to improve time management for both teams and individuals.

Key Learning Outcomes:

• Bringing the right headspace to work
• Efficiency -v- effectiveness - you'll need both
• System - what system?  Getting to the work
• Mastering your technology - and delegation
• Setting goals to facilitate team work

• Professional skills

• Capturing referral sources
• An easy system for tracking referrals
• Analysing the client portfolio for opportunities
• Asking for work and referrals
• When cross selling isn’t a good idea

• Practice management and business skills
• Ethics and professional responsibility

• Substantive law
• Ethics and professional responsibility

•  Substantive Law
  

This session will bring you up to speed on recent developments including consideration of some of the more interesting and recent cases in the technology space that may have a material impact on the way you conduct business.

Tal Williams, Technology Partner, will assist you to identify practical strategies to minimise risk for your company in relation to electronic contacts and transactions, data storage and privacy, and electronic signatures.

Key Learning Outcomes:

• Identify issues arising from use of electronic signatures
• Awareness of enforceability of click and browse wrap agreements
• Identify issues in relation to privacy obligations
• Awareness of basic cyber security protocols to minimise risk of attack

• Practice management and business skills
  
• Professional skills

The seminar will cover the following topics:

• How has the market responded to cybercrime? Key trends in cyber incident response
• The legal, business and operational issues impacting your organisation following a cyber incident
• Still a risk to your organisation? The importance of third party vendor risk management
• Protecting confidentiality of client data after Panama Papers and Paradise Papers
• Examine new exposures to claims for breach of duty of confidentiality
• Private actions for breaches of data privacy rights, including plaintiff class actions
• What the Barbican Group Cyber Policy covers for legal practices insured with Lawcover
• War stories from the claims made to date on the Group Cyber Policy
• War stories from the claims for third party loss on the Professional Indemnity Policy
• Elements of a successful forensic investigation, both technical and operational
• Leveraging forensic investigation findings to inform other areas of an organisation’s response 
• Current statistics on Cybercrime events involving solicitors in NSW
•  Vulnerabilities to any security system

•  Professional Skills
  

It's not just individuals who face unconscious biases in the workplace; teams and organisations can also operate with shared institutionalised biases. Ensuring a diverse workplace requires seeing past these biases. In this course, you'll learn about the process of overcoming organisational biases and how to function as an inclusive leader. You'll also learn specific tactics for combating unconscious biases in the workplace.

• Practice management and business skills

• the legal system and institutions in the UK
• know the key resources available for research

• Professional skills

• Introduction to advocacy
• Incorporating rules of evidence
• Analysing your material and defining a case theory
• Advocacy is a performance
• Preparation and evidence
• Cross examination
• What is a proposition?

• Practice management and business skills

• an understanding of why acceptable use agreements are used;
• an understanding of the key areas that need to be considered when drafting acceptable use agreements;
• and recommendations on the implementation of AUA's

• Professional skills

• The importance of the process of mediation
• The importance of having a true appreciation of the context of the dispute underlying the mediation

• Practice management and business skills

• What is the difference between a business and a legal profession;
• Business Development;
• Who is competing with you for your lunch today; and
• Something to consider in order to remain on the winning side

• Substantive law

• Introduction and history of Committal Hearings
• Purpose of Committal Hearings and Recent Amendments
• Drafting and filing a Case Direction Notice
• Request for disclosure and appearing at a Committal Hearing
• Other considerations and tools
• Preparing for, and during a Committal Hearing
• Evidence and the end goal

• Professional skills

• What is professional privilege? 
• When is communication privileged? 
• Waivers, exceptions and misconceptions 
• How NOT to lose privilege - top 10 tips
• Practical tips when dealing with regulators

• Practice management and business skills