A Modern Practice Approach to Ethics in Legal Practice

A Modern Practice Approach to Ethics in Legal Practice

Our regulatory duties provide solicitors must act ethically, deliver legal services competently, and avoid any compromise to a solicitor’s integrity and professional independence. 

 This session will cover how we can use modern legal practices to manage our ethical duties as solicitors. 

  1. The regulatory obligation to identify and respond to ethical issues in legal practice and maintain solicitor integrity and independence 
  2. The role of trauma informed practice to discharge our solicitor duties
  3. The role of moral injury in compromising solicitor’s integrity and how to manage this

This session is quite interactive and it is recommended to attend in person.

CLAUDIA MACLEAN

DIRECTOR
YELLOW LEGAL

Claudia is the Director of Yellow Legal, a modern family law firm designed for impact, and former Principal Solicitor of the Women’s Legal Centre ACT. She is also the founder of TILCO – the Trauma Informed Law Collective, a community of professionals working in human-centred areas of law. Claudia has an MBA from University of NSW, a Masters of Applied Law (Family), and has delivered workshops in trauma informed practice to Commonwealth and ACT Government, Melbourne University Law School, and top tier and boutique firms. In 2022, she was awarded the ACT Law Society’s President’s Medal for her work in developing trauma-informed organisations in the community legal sector and the UNSW AGSM Scholarship to extend her work in developing human-centred legal services.

RHIÂN WILLIAMS

PRINCIPAL CONSULTANT AND CEO
RHIÂN WILLIAMS & ASSOCIATES

Rhiân is Principal Consultant and CEO at Rhiân Williams & Associates. Rhiân supports individuals, groups, organisations and governments to collaborate to deliver meaningful change. Rhiân has developed trauma informed training programs that have been accredited by the Royal Australian College of General Practice and the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine. Rhiân has consulted on the implementation of trauma-informed approaches to a diverse range of organisations such as the Women’s Legal Centre ACT, the South Australian Aboriginal Legal Rights Movement, Australian Women in Agriculture, the Disability Advocacy Network of Australia, Inclusion Australia, the Victorian Legal Ombudsman, Queensland Department of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Policy & Development, the Federal Court of Australia and the Commonwealth Department of Defence.

Details

  • This is an on-demand webinar you can watch at anytime - a link and password will be sent to you when you register. 
  • Cost: Members - $50, Non-members $70
  • CPD: Members will receive 1 point in Core Area 1
  • This event was recorded as part of the Fundamentals Webinar Series on Tuesday 30 July 2024.
  • This recording will expire on 31 December 2024

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Non-member Registration $70.00(GST incl.) Register

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