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Recorded Webinar: Mind your Language - Ethical Boundaries in Professional Correspondence (ethics)

Advocacy appears to have given way to more aggression, with increasing complaints about the behaviour and language used by lawyers in dealing with clients, opponents and other practitioners. This session will provide guidance on how practitioners can restore civility and collegial
PRESENTED BY Peter Sise Special Counsel - Clayton Utz , Melbourne

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About the Webinar

Advocacy appears to have given way to more aggression, with increasing complaints about the behaviour and language used by lawyers in dealing with clients, opponents and other practitioners. This session will provide guidance on how practitioners can restore civility and collegiality into their professional interactions and correspondence, including:

  • A reminder of the key conduct rules and standards
  • What constitutes unprofessional conduct? An analysis through examples from cases brought before regulatory bodies
  • The impact of unprofessional behaviour on the profession and the community
  • What lawyers can do to improve interactions through:
    • Language
    • Emotion
    • Correspondence form and content
  • Judicial intervention – how senior judges have entered the discussion

Presented By

Peter Sise
Special Counsel, Clayton Utz Melbourne, Vic

Peter is an experienced commercial litigator with particular knowledge of trade practices law, insolvency and regulatory investigations. He believes litigation is about resolving conflicts so that a business can remain focused on what matters: its business.

This requires understanding the objectives, histories and personalities of all stakeholders and that a win does not always come from a court's judgment.

Peter believes that in a world of continuously changing legal regulation, it's essential to have an understanding of where laws originated and where they are headed – a belief that has led him to write regularly for peer-reviewed journals and work on both the "Harper Review" of Competition Law and Policy and the Australian Consumer Law Review. Peter is also an editor of Wolters Kluwer CCH's trade practices commentary and a member of the editorial committee for the publication, In-house Counsel.

Who Should Attend?

This webinar is suitable for lawyers - Australia wide and it has been designed to deliver the ethics compulsory subject unit for th

CPD Information

unit for the CPD year ending 31st March 2022. CPD Lawyers can claim 1 CPD unit – ethics. WA lawyers – From April 1 st 2021, due to the new requirements we are unable to verify your completion of recorded webinars to the Legal Practice Board of WA.

Enquiries/Assistance

If you need assistance or have an enquiry, please do not hesitate to contact our Webinar Coordinator, Lisa Tran on (03) 8601 7709 or email: [email protected]

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