The Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) is the world's largest organization serving the professional and business interests of attorneys who practice in the legal departments of corporations, associations, nonprofits and other private-sector organizations around the globe.
The Western Australian (WA) legal profession has come together to support the Women’s Legal Service WA, which has seen an increase in demand for services due to COVID-19. The Women’s Legal Service WA is a not-for-profit community legal centre that provides legal services to women across WA.
The University of Western Australia, in partnership with the Law Society and supported by the WA legal profession, is hosting this special lecture for one CPD point in category 3 - Ethics and Professional Responsibility.
The Honourable Robert French AC, Chief Judge Julie Wager from the District Court and Dr Jacoba Brasch QC, the President of the Law Council of Australia, will speak on “Access to Justice in a Covid-19 world” that will include discussion about how COVID-19 has changed the legal profession.
Programme:
Welcome and introductions by Professor Natalie Skead, Dean and Head of the UWA Law School.
A representative from Women’s Legal Service will speak.
The Honourable Robert French AC will speak.
Chief Judge Julie Wager from the District Court of Western Australia will speak.
Dr Jacoba Brasch QC, President of the Law Council of Australia, will speak.
Thank you and close by Jocelyne Boujos, President of the Law Society of Western Australia.
Event Registration
Event registration is a donation of $50 for legal practitioners who want to receive a CPD point or $10 for Law students and other members of the legal profession.
Registrations are managed by the UWA Law School and All funds raised will be donated to the Women’s Legal Service WA
As the CPD year draws to a close, Piper Alderman are pleased to offer you the opportunity to secure 4 CPD points in 4 hours.
Our complimentary national programme covers all three mandatory areas of law as well as one substantive law topic.
Simply attend one session or attend them all – it’s your choice! Each session is recorded and available to view on demand if you cannot attend the webinar session at the scheduled start time
Thursday, December 3 @ 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. (Buchanan) — Employees and Corporate Legal Concerns: Managing Ethical Issues and Avoiding Common Pitfalls
From internal investigations to outside litigation, the question of who is representing whom can pose ethical challenges. We will consider common scenarios, the role of in-house and outside counsel, Upjohn warnings and other relevant rules and case law to consider when your employee is a witness, a joint defendant, or just wants some legal advice.
Thursday, December 3 @ 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. (Duane Morris) — Ethics and the Challenges of Working Remotely
This panel will discuss the challenges of remote working and how to manage risk and loss prevention in the current remote working environment. We will address best practices for information security while working remotely and on mobile devices and outlines ways to minimize the impact that “remote” working may have on your team , including mental health aspects.
Click the button below to preregister for this three-day event! Your registration entitles you to attend all six sessions, or just one or two if that's what works for you. One Zoom link will get you into all sessions, and will be provided to each registrant prior to the beginning of the event.
Wednesday, December 2 @ 9:00 a.m. to 10 a.m. (CSC) — Ethical Considerations With Technology Contracts
Ethical issues and technology contracts can present in-house attorneys with unique ethical challenges. This program reviews ethical issues that arise with technology contracts and will include considerations of internal processes and compliance and discuss contract negotiations and provisions.
Wednesday, December 2 @ 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. (Hogan) — Practical and Ethical Implications of Litigating During COVID-19
In this session, expert panelists will cover best practices for avoiding the unique ethical pitfalls of remote and in-person litigation proceedings during the pandemic.
Click the button below to preregister for this three-day event! Your registration entitles you to attend all six sessions, or just one or two if that's what works for you. One Zoom link will get you into all sessions, and will be provided to each registrant prior to the beginning of the event.
Tuesday, December 1 @ 9:00 a.m. to 10 a.m. (Schnader) — Ethical Issues in Employment Law and Beyond
Businesses face a wide range of ethical issues related to employment law. It can help business leaders and in-house counsel to focus on two key aspects of these issues – technology and internal investigations. Technology presents ethical questions involving the nature of information shared in electronic form, the confidentiality of electronically stored information, the risk of cyber intrusion, and protecting attorney-client communications. Internal investigations, both when required by law and used to assess and remediate potential problems, present ethical questions involving the initial authority, structure and staffing of the investigation, as well as clarifying and communicating the identity of the “client(s)” for the investigation and managing these relationships. This session will provide practical examples and best practices for these issues and more.
Tuesday, December 1 @ 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. (Ballard Spahr) — Corporate Political Participation in a Hyper Partisan World
This program will discuss navigating the applicable laws and regulations related to corporate political contributions, and how political participation may create liability for companies.
Click the button below to preregister for this three-day event! Your registration entitles you to attend all six sessions, or just one or two if that's what works for you. One Zoom link will get you into all sessions, and will be provided to each registrant prior to the beginning of the event.
The ethical challenges faced by in-house lawyers are unique. This presentation looks at some common in-house pitfalls and dilemmas and discusses ways to avoid walking on the wrong side of the sometimes imperceptible ethical line.
Bob Dylan’s famous line “The times, they are a’ changin’” has never had more resonance than in the practice of law in 2020. Remote work, meeting with clients and business partners virtually, taking fingers to keyboard rather than pen to paper, finding and producing evidence from the recesses of computer systems all raise ethical issues you probably never learned in law school or at traditional ethics seminars.
This rather untraditional, interactive presentation will address the ethical challenges of practicing law across electronic frontiers, including
How to satisfy the duty of technological knowledge and competence
Keeping client information and communications secure
Protecting that information across national borders within which privilege laws may differ significantly from those in the U.S.
In this evolving hypothetical, in-house counsel confront a series of issues, some prompted by COVID-19 and some not, and then are guided through the nuts and bolts of their ethical investigation and remediation.
Anticipated topics include
Investigating alleged fraud arising from the pandemic
Investigating non-COVID issues such as corruption and harassment that in-house counsel continue to address, and
Related privilege, conflicts and other ethics implications.
Please stay for trivia, games and prizes immediately following!
Join us for an engaging, practical roundtable discussion designed for in-house counsel.
In offering best – and next – practices that are responsive to recent cultural events and the current realities of workplace interactions, we will draw upon any lessons learned so far and provide an overview of some of the business and diversity trends that leaders in the profession should anticipate for 2020 and beyond. We will discuss:
• What more can be done to fortify a pledge to create a diverse and inclusive work environment;
• How can an employer work to disrupt the inherent and institutionalized biases that exist;
• How to best respond to, support and/or protect the employer from both the positive and negative activism that may be affecting businesses.