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February 26, 2025 | 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM ACDT


CPD In-Person Event: 

SASA Gallery, 
University of South Australia, City West Campus
Kaurna Building, Level 2, Fenn Place, 
Adelaide  SA  5000

Pricing
Members: $0.00
Non-members: $0.00
Non-members In-House Counsel: $0.00

Overview (Program Summary)

A program hosted by:

ACC Australia

Join your inhouse peers for an after work aperitivo and collaborative discussion, focussing on the critical legal developments set to shape 2025. 

LK will explore emerging topics, including recent cybersecurity and privacy legislation and the new climate-related risk disclosures regime, check in on progress with psychosocial safety obligations, and touch on the perennial favourite: good governance.

Together we will unpack the implications of these developments, offering practical advice on how to stay ahead in an evolving legal landscape. 

Bring a work colleague along, regardless of whether they're a member.  All are welcome! 
 


Speakers

Lisa

Lisa Loechel, Principal, LK

Lisa advises corporate clients across a range of industries and sectors on regulatory compliance and responding to regulatory enquiries and investigations.

Lisa has a keen interest in climate related matters and has been following closely the recent amendments to the Corporations Act establishing the new climate related risk reporting regime and what this means for corporate clients.  

Lisa has experience across a broad range of commercial disputes, for Australian and international clients, involving a variety of issues and industries, from construction to agriculture to financial services.  Lisa draws on this experience when assisting clients to devise and implement effective dispute avoidance and risk mitigation strategies.


Brooke

Brooke Hall-Carney, Principal, LK

Brooke is an experienced commercial litigator, risk advisor and technologist who has worked on all of the commonly known “mega litigations”.  

Brooke advises boards and executives on their AI strategy and governance and cyber risk and strategy, and conducts tailored cyber scenario training. She also facilitates data governance and supply chain workshops for clients. Brooke speaks about technology in a way that lawyers understand and the law in a way that technologists understand and regularly trains and facilitates AI risk and opportunity workshops for organisations. Brooke regularly presents locally and internationally, including to members of the judiciary, on emerging technologies, including data, AI, cyber, crypto and blockchain.


Amy

Amy Cooper-Boast, Principal, LK

Amy specialises in complex commercial disputes, investigations and corporate governance. With over 15 years of Australian and international experience, Amy’s practice has spanned Australia, the UK, Hong Kong, Singapore, the Cayman Islands, the BVI, Canada and the US.

Amy has litigated prominent claims for breaches of directors’ duties, audit negligence, fraud and misconduct. In addition, she has advised on high value insolvencies and restructurings, and a range of other legal, regulatory, compliance, governance, risk and strategic issues. I have advised across a variety of industries, including financial services, insurance, manufacturing, mining, medical technology, agribusiness, infrastructure, telecommunications, government, arts, and the not-for-profit sector.


Claire

Claire Clutterham, Principal, LK

Claire is experienced in providing legal, commercial and contracting advice in the airline, construction, defence and mining industries. Claire has 20 years of Australian and international experience, having spent close to a decade acting for government and private enterprises in international arbitration proceedings in the Middle East and Hong Kong.

Claire’s in-house legal experience means she is not only able to advise clients on their legal position but, based on first-hand experience of priorities for Boards and executive lead teams, she is able to develop solutions that are commercially sustainable, pragmatic and easily executed and measured by complex businesses. Claire has comprehensive experience as in-house legal counsel means she has developed a deep understanding of the complex regulatory and compliance regimes applicable to businesses, including with respect to privacy (having acted as Privacy Officer for a large organisation), freedom of information, WHS and whistleblowing legislation as well as the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act. Claire also has substantial experience developing and advising on enterprise level risk management frameworks, including risk appetite statements and control, mitigation and treatment regimes. Claire also has a significant track record of designing and delivering appropriately tailored compliance and risk training to businesses.

With a strong understanding of corporate governance issues, Claire holds a number of Board positions, including with the Royal Flying Doctor Service (SA/NT), through which she chairs the Board Aviation Safety Committee and is an elected councillor for the Norwood, Payneham & St Peters Council. Claire also teaches in the Practical Legal Training course at the Leo Cussen Centre for Law and has taught in the Commercial Space Law and International Arbitration courses at the University of Adelaide.




Allie Umoff, Special Counsel, LK

Allie has experience across a wide range of commercial disputes, involving issues of insolvency, professional negligence, directors' duties, contract, and construction defects. In over 15 years of practice, she has represented clients in the United States, Australia, and Europe, ranging from large corporates to small business owners and individuals. Her experience includes working across a range of industries, including construction, transport, agribusiness, finance, insolvency, and the resources sector. Allie has extensive experience in large discovery projects, including using technology assisted review and predictive analytics.

Allie also regularly prepares papers and delivers presentations on matters of importance to her clients and colleagues, ranging from technical legal issues, to discovery, ethics, and regulatory issues. She is also an accredited mediator.

Notes

*Competitor Exclusion – ACC Australia Partner’s may request that representative/s of a competitor organisation/s registered for the event be excluded, and ACC Australia reserves the right to make the final decision as to whether a registration is rejected. As a guide, a competitor organisation could be defined as a rival organisation of similar size to the host Corporate Partner, with an established practice, product or service in the area being showcased by the Corporate Partner’s at the event. Please provide a brief statement as to why you have deemed an organisation to be a competitor, in support of any request to ACC Australia to reject a registration. 

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