In-person CPD Event
Hall & Wilcox
Level 51,108 St Georges Terrace
Perth, Australia 6000
Overview (Program Summary)
Please join us for an exclusive event specifically designed for Perth-based senior in-house counsel and commercial leaders.
Hall & Wilcox’ partners are pleased to invite you to our Insight Series Boardroom Lunch!
The first in a series of lunchtime discussions to be held under Chatham House Rules, focusing on pivotal topics and issues currently shaping the Perth legal landscape.
At our launch event, we will hear our leading partner’s insights on key issues facing in house counsel teams. They will also provide practical tips for meeting the challenges and new developments in the risk, employment law, property and commercial dispute spaces.
This roundtable will provide a unique opportunity for you to ask questions, benefit from the sharing of insights and gain a greater understanding of current legal challenges and developments in real time while sharing a plated lunch with some of Perth’s leading lawyers and barristers.
Just some of the topics to be addressed at our launch event will be AI and litigants in person in the employment law space, misleading and deceptive conduct and personal director liability, managing psychosocial risks and legal privilege risks in the context of board reporting.
| AGENDA 12.00pm - registration 12.15pm - event start 2.00pm - event finish |
Speakers
Penelope Ford, Partner, Hall & Wilcox
Penny is a commercial disputes lawyer with more than 20 years’ experience managing high value and complex claims and disputes for a wide range of commercial and government clients. Penny has a particular focus on construction, resources and energy and oil and gas disputes.
Penny has successfully advised both principals and contractors in relation to the management and resolution of major disputes including through structured negotiation, mediation, adjudication, contested superior court litigation and national and international arbitration.
She has also acted for clients in commissions of inquiry and inquests. Penny has also spent time in-house on secondment with several national and international corporations assisting them to manage and respond to claims and disputes. This experience has given her a very practical and commercial perspective on dispute management and resolution from which her clients are able to benefit. Penny is recognised in the inaugural Lawdragon Global Litigation 500 as being part of a small group of global lawyers routinely called upon to advise leading corporations and who are said to ‘know their way around global business battlegrounds’. Clients provided Legal 500 with the feedback that Penny is ‘delightful, very generous, and calm; thorough, incredibly busy but manages to juggle many things.’
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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