• Business Process and Accounting
  
• Revenues, Liabilities and Owners Equity
  
• Costs – Assets and Expenses
  
• Developing Cost Estimates for Operating Overhead Costs
  
• Developing Cost Estimates for Labour Costs
  
• Planning Revenue Generating Activity Levels – (HOURS)
  
• Calculation of Labour Charge out rates
  
• Break-even and Profit Planning
  
•  Understanding Revenues & Expenses and their drivers. 
  

•  Substantive Law
  

Dr Michelle Sharpe, Barrister discusses understanding distinguishing Duress and Undue Influence, the types of threat amounting to duress, classes of Undue Influence, remedies for duress and undue influence and typical defenses to duress and undue influence claims.

Key Learning Outcomes:

• Duress and Undue Influence distinguished
• Types of threat amounting to duress
• Classes of Undue Influence
• Undue Influence and third parties - the 'wives equity'
• Remedies for duress and undue influence
• Typical defenses to duress and undue influence claims

The handout is accessible from within the Interactive Exercise module.

This course provides a process use in situations when there is a problem to solve, you’re trying to understand a subject better, or you need to make a decision. In these situations you may be working on your own or with others. By completing this course, you will be able to increase objectivity by identifying various perspectives of the same situation.

This course is designed to increase your productivity skills.

The following topics will be covered:

• Increase the Quantity of Work
• Stay Productive While Waiting for Answers
• Organizing Information for Productivity

Full descriptions for each module can be found here.

This course will help you create a clear picture of the team’s vision and to excite and inspire team members regarding the team’s purpose. By completing this course, you will know how to inform and inspire your employees regarding the team’s vision.

In this ‘Inheritance - aspects of Superannuation’ seminar your facilitator Michael Hallinan will explore key topics such as: 

• Inheritance Rules of “super benefit”,
  
• Inheritance of “super pensions”,
  
• Inheritance of “Control” (only applies to SMSFS),
  
• Consensual modification of inheritance rules,
  
• Contested Inheritance, 
  
• Overriding inheritance rules. 

• Substantive law

Join our facilitators in discussing what is a hot topic of International Family Law and child protection

• International parental child abduction 
• 1996 Convention on International Child Protection
• International surrogacy and international perspective on child support 
• Financial proceedings where parties live overseas and enforcing orders overseas.
  

Martha Barnett, Barrister, Culwulla Chambers
Catherine Spain, Barrister, Waratah Chambers

• Practical hints and tips 
  
• Resources Searches 
  
• Proofs Secondary proofs 
  
• Next of kin applications
  

• 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
  
• 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
  

Sometimes the financial freedom we all seek comes at the expense of other areas of our life. Don't be the person who works hard to get to the top of the ladder to then realise that you're on the wrong ladder, or even worse, that it's been at the cost of your health, relationships and general well-being. There is no quick fix, but there are strategies you can use to achieve everything you desire and manage your entire life more effectively.

Key Learning Outcomes:

• the more you look after yourself the more you can assist others
• when you empower a focus on all areas of your life; your life will flow more easily, in every possible way
• happy employees will increase production by 31%, increase revenue by 37% and will be 3 times more productive
• to empower your employees: they are your company's real competitive advantage
• that together we make a difference: delegation & collaboration is the name of the game

• Substantive law
• Ethics and professional responsibility

•  Practice Management and Business Skills
  

Join Michael Minter, Pitcher Partners, as he discusses results and insights from their recently released 4th annual legal firm survey.

Key Learning Outcomes:

• How profitability is related to a firm's structure and decision-making process
• Options for attracting clients in the challenging legal market
• Measures for attracting and retaining staff
• How technology can be harnessed for the best use of your staff and clients
• The importance of protecting your firm and clients' information from cybersecurity attacks and data breaches

• The Need for Strategy
• Challenging the Status Quo
• Making the Change
• Experiencing the Change
• Thriving in Change
• Seeing Change Through

You can find a full description of each module here.

• The Australian legal system - an overview 
• People in the legal industry 
• NSW court structure and hierarchy
• Working in a legal office.
  

• the basic underpinnings of the European and American approaches to legal ethics and in-house counsel 
• differences between the practical approaches to preserving the independence of legal practitioners 
• why in-house counsel cannot practise as lawyers in some of Europe 
• what problems face in-house lawyers in the American model 
• what similar problems are faced by external counsel
  

Chiara Formenti-Ujlaki