Recorded Interactive Webinar: Costs Agreements & Terms of Engagement - Practice Management for Family Lawyers

Running a family law practice isn’t just about advocacy – it’s also about sustainability, compliance, and keeping the practice financially healthy. With margins tightening, costs rising, and clients under financial pressure, practice management strategies are now critical to survival and growth. This session examines practical ways to ensure your Costs Agreement and Fee Estimates are up to date and compliant with Uniform Law; and that your Terms of Engagement are fit for purpose in the demanding area of family law service delivery.

This session has a focus on ensuring clients are fully informed of your service offering as well as the scope, terms and costs of same, whilst running a more efficient practice and avoiding the risk of complaints.

The aim is to strengthen the business side of your practice while still delivering quality service, including:

• Compliance with Uniform Law and other professional obligations including compliance with Family Law Rules
• Strategies for fee estimate models that suit family law
• Delegation and efficiency: communicating with clients about use of juniors, paralegals, and technology to avoid senior lawyers doing low-value work
• Terms of Engagement which support client management and boundaries to keep emotionally charged clients from draining resources and time and running up unnecessary fees
• Risk management strategies and procedures to avoid compliance breaches, missed deadlines, and costs complaints