Mandatory CPD Points Halfday Seminar 2024
Halfday seminar 23 February, 2024
Professor Gerard Ryan, University of Notre Dame Australia; Liam Meagher, 6 St James Hall Chambers; Susanna Kipping, Head of Legal Transformation, Herbert Smith Freehills
Dixson Room, Mitchell Wing, NSW State Library
09:00AM to 12:30PM
The program will cover:
Conflict and confidentiality. Recent cases
Professor Gerard Ryan, University of Notre Dame Australia
(Rule 6.1.1: Ethics and professional responsibility)
Discrimination and harassment in the legal workplace:
the professional conduct consequences of lawyers behaving badly
Liam Meagher, 6 St James Hall Chambers
(Rule 6.1.2: Practise management and business skills)
AI for legal professionals: opportunities, challenges and best practice
Susanna Kipping, Head of Legal Transformation, Herbert Smith Freehills
(Rule 6.1.3: Professional skills)
In order for law firms to be well positioned to make effective use of AI, there is some preparatory work to do.
This presentation will focus less on technology, and more on the other foundation components of your business:
• People:
How to foster a culture of innovation, collaboration and trust among your legal professionals and clients, and how to ensure ethical and responsible use of generative AI.
• Process:
How to identify and prioritise the most valuable and feasible use 0=of generative AI in your legal workflows, and how to integrate and evaluate generative AI tools within your existing systems and platforms.
• Data:
How to source, prepare and manage the data that powers generative AI models, and how to ensure data quality, security and privacy.
The key to successfully embedding the use of AI in legal service delivery is a robust 'change management' approach. The session will provide tips on how to build a desire for change in your practice, alongside overcoming the very human feeling of resistance that surfaces when there is a change in long-held processes.
In association with the University of Notre Dame Australia
Three CPD points
If you are attending the seminar via Zoom from outside Sydney, remember daylight saving may affect the start time. Please check.