• finance essentials and taxation strategies
• pricing your services and billing the client
• avoiding pitfalls in trust money and trust records
• leadership and management techniques
• hiring and training reliable staff
• managing risk
• business planning
• marketing methods to grow your business
• attracting and retaining clients
• ethics and responsibility

Online learning portal opens 24 March 2025.

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• finance essentials and taxation strategies
• pricing your services and billing the client
• avoiding pitfalls in trust money and trust records
• leadership and management techniques
• hiring and training reliable staff
• managing risk
• business planning
• marketing methods to grow your business
• attracting and retaining clients
• ethics and responsibility

Online learning portal opens 20 January 2025.

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Are you looking to start your own legal practice? Maybe you plan on joining an already successful practice as its newest principal? There are a few things you need to know first.

In NSW, lawyers who want to become the principal of a legal practice must undertake a legal practice management course to have Condition 3 removed from their practising certificate. Our Practice Management Course fulfils this requirement.

Register for this course and gain the skills you need to succeed as a principal lawyer running a profitable practice. You will be taught how to run an efficient and cost-effective practice by applying business management and leadership skills and introducing quality systems. Our experienced facilitators will give you the tools you need to provide the highest quality services to clients, engage your employees, and run a successful practice for years to come.

• finance essentials and taxation strategies
• pricing your services and billing the client
• avoiding pitfalls in trust money and trust records
• leadership and management techniques, including self-leadership and stress management
• hiring and training reliable staff
• managing risk
• managing technology and innovation
• business planning
• marketing methods to grow your business
• attracting and retaining clients
• ethics and responsibility

Online learning portal opens on 18 April 2025.

Click here for the course brochure.

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• finance essentials and taxation strategies
• pricing your services and billing the client
• avoiding pitfalls in trust money and trust records
• leadership and management techniques
• hiring and training reliable staff
• managing risk
• business planning
• marketing methods to grow your business
• attracting and retaining clients
• ethics and responsibility

Online learning portal opens 14 May 2025.

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In this live online course, hear from legal experts on privacy and data management while earning three CPD units.
Topics will include:

The Privacy Law reforms – TBC

Ethical data management – protecting confidentiality – Linden Barnes, Senior Ethics Solicitor, Law Society of NSW

In this session, Linden will review recent issues in ethics, focusing on:

• Avoiding misleading statements.
• Managing client expectations.
• Understanding your confidentiality obligations.

Data breach prevention, assessment and reporting – Cate Cloudsdale

This session will focus on the Notifiable Data Breaches scheme under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) and will include: 

• Assessing a suspected eligible data breach, including whether there is a likelihood of ‘serious harm’.
• Notification requirements and timelines for action.
• The regulator’s powers to obtain information and to direct an entity to notify.
• How to prevent data breaches through data limitation, retention practices, and security measures.

The session will also touch on the Government’s privacy reforms and how these may impact data breach notification requirements and security practices in the near future. 

Practitioners should inform themselves of Rule 6.1 of the Legal Profession Uniform Continuing Professional Development (Solicitors) Rules 2015 which sets out the requirements for the four (4) mandatory CPD areas for NSW legal practitioners – (a) ethics and professional responsibility; (b) practice management and business skills; (c) professional skills; and (d) substantive law. It is the responsibility of each legal practitioner to self-assess as to whether a particular educational activity extends their knowledge and skills in areas that are relevant to their practice needs or professional development. If so, then the practitioner may claim one (1) "unit” for each hour of attendance, refreshment breaks not included. 

If you self-assess that this particular educational activity extends your knowledge and skills, this program may allow you to claim three (3) of the mandatory areas: (a) ethics and professional responsibility; (b) practice management and business skills; and (c) professional skills.

Linden Barnes, Senior Ethics Solicitor, Law Society of NSW
Cate Cloudsdale, Counsel, Quay Law Partners