Hear from legal experts in this live online course offering best practice tips for onboarding your client, maintaining a sound professional relationship, and ensuring you meet your compliance obligations. Earn three CPD units. 

Topics will include:

Skills for taking instructions – Amy Papandreas, Senior Associate, Lander & Rogers

Amy Papandreas will lead you through the client interview, offering tips for taking instructions and sowing the seed for a positive and productive solicitor-client relationship.                

Client disclosures and your ethical obligations – Linden Barnes, Senior Ethics Solicitor, Law Society of NSW

While the AML/CTF requirements introduce new VOI requirements, our ethical obligations to know our client have always been a requirement. In this session, we will consider various scenarios where the solicitor-client relationship may be obscure, and how we can clarify it.

AML/CTF obligations – tips for compliance and success – Brian Barlow, Professional Support Solicitor, Law Society of NSW

The AML/CTF reforms are here and the challenge now is turning obligation into success. This session gives a concise overview of Australia’s AML/CTF framework and focuses on what effective compliance looks like in practice. It will highlight key risk areas and core elements of a strong AML program, offering practical tips to help scope your obligations, embed workable controls and avoid common pitfalls. 

Practitioners should inform themselves of Rule 6.1 of the Legal Profession Uniform Continuing Professional Development (Solicitors) Rules 2015 which sets out the requirements for the four (4) mandatory CPD areas for NSW legal practitioners – (a) ethics and professional responsibility; (b) practice management and business skills; (c) professional skills; and (d) substantive law. It is the responsibility of each legal practitioner to self-assess as to whether a particular educational activity extends their knowledge and skills in areas that are relevant to their practice needs or professional development. If so, then the practitioner may claim one (1) "unit” for each hour of attendance, refreshment breaks not included. 

If you self-assess that this particular educational activity extends your knowledge and skills, this program may allow you to claim three (3) of the mandatory areas: (a) ethics and professional responsibility; (b) practice management and business skills; and (c) professional skills.