2024 Risk & Practice Management Conference
Location
RACV Hotel Hobart or The Silos Launceston
About
(CPD Guide: 3.5 E, PM, PS) The Law Society of Tasmania invites you to its ever-popular risk and practice management conference that this year is being held in Hobart at The RACV Hotel, and at The Silos in Launceston.
CPD: 3.5 points (E, PM, PS)
Format: In-person (Hobart) and In-person (Launceston)
Recorded: With the presenters' consent
Format: In-person (Hobart) and In-person (Launceston)
Recorded: With the presenters' consent
The Conference is ideal for: Practice Managers | Managing Partners | Partners | CEOs | Emerging and Future Leaders | Practitioners at any level
This year's Risk and Practice Management Conference focusses on levelling up your legal practice and addresses: ways to future-proof your business - through best practice and innovation; managing challenges arising from the rapid takeup of AI by legal competitors; and how your business could/should/can stay ahead.
Meet the presenters (bios below)
- Danielle Snell, Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Elit Lawyers
- Shane Budden, Special Counsel, Ethics, Queensland Law Society Ethics and Practice Centre
- Ben Dunn, Co-Founder, Friyay.ai and Director, Advisory Services, Stone and Chalk
- Fleur Dewhurst, PII Scheme Claims Manager, Law Society of Tasmania
PROGRAM (session details TBA - coming soon)
Chaired by Julia Higgins, President, Law Society of Tasmania
8.30am - Registrations open
8.55am - Welcome
9.00am - 10.00am Session 1
10.00am Morning Tea
10.15am - 11.15am Session 2
11.15am Break
11.30am - 12.15pm Session 3
12.15pm - 1.00pm Session 4
1pm - 1.05pm Closing Remarks
Presenter Bios
Ms Danielle Snell is an award-winning litigator who established her own dynamic litigation firm after 15 years of top-tier practice. She specialises in commercial litigation, insurance litigation and media law; with a special interest in women’s rights. Danielle has a passion for promoting diversity and inclusion in the legal sector and for challenging the traditional law firm model in order to provide a more authentic and transparent legal service to clients. She endeavours to create and grow a progressive workplace of the future. Danielle sits on the Law Institute of Victoria’s Litigation Lawyers Executive Committee, Court Practice Committee and Diversity Committee (Sexual Harassment Working Group). For her commitments to innovation, high stakes litigation and issues of diversity and inclusion, Danielle is recognised by leading and prestigious industry publications. Some of Danielle’s awards and accolades are: Managing Partner of the Year - Lawyers Weekly 2023; Law Firm Leader of the Year (<100 employees) – Australasian Lawyer Law Awards 2023; and Most Influential Lawyer 2021 - Australasian Lawyer in the category of ‘changemaker’.
Mr Shane Budden is a Special Counsel at the Queensland Law Society's Ethics Centre, providing ethical guidance and instruction to practitioners as well as a contributing significantly to Proctor, the journal of the Queensland Law Society. Admitted in 1992 Shane commenced work in general practice, focusing on criminal law, before moving to in-house work including running the internal legal team at the Queensland Building Services Authority / Queensland Building and Construction Commission internal legal team. Shane is also former Chair of the Society’s government lawyers committee. He has published articles in many newspapers and magazines and appears on television and radio delivering commentary in relation to contemporary legal issues.
Ms Fleur Dewhurst is the Claims Manager for the Law Society of Tasmania's Professional Indemnity Insurance Scheme. Fleur was admitted to practice in 2002 and worked for a number of years in private practice in the area of civil litigation and health law. Fleur was an inhouse legal advisor with the Tasmanian Health Service, and has worked in the area of risk management. For a number of years she worked as a consultant with the insurer MDA National and sat on the State Advisory Committee responsible for identifying emerging insurable risk and providing advice on risk management solutions.
Mr Ben Dunn's skill set covers everything from marketing to HR, with the majority of his career in financial services spent in Europe and Asia-Pacific. Ben's interests are mostly in the crypto space. He is a classically trained marketing leader with deep expertise building primarily digital businesses and brands across multiple markets and categories in large corporates, startups and consultancies. Ben specialises in the financial services market, and he has worked in a variety of marketing and strategy roles delivering projects ranging from overall business strategies to brand development, customer segmentation and most recently, working to build artificially intelligent marketing products. Ben's specialities are: business strategy, marketing strategy, brand development, brand-led innovation, digital marketing, product management, customer research, social media, business transformation, project management, and digital, artificial intelligence.
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CPD Points: Any CPD points listed are provided as a guide and registrants should satisfy themselves about the nature and quantity of CPD points they can claim for the activity. Please refer to Practice Guideline no.4 HERE for details.
Program: The Society reserves the right to amend the content and timing of a program. A final program will be listed in the delegate booklet.
Refund/Cancellation - By registering for this event you (as a member or non-member) agree to the terms and conditions under the Society's Refund/Cancellation Policy and Terms and Conditions of Registration.
Non-member registrations - conditions apply at the discretion of the Society. The Society will be in touch if you are not eligible to register and a refund will be issued.
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