With almost 20 years of experience in family law, Monica Blizzard is an Accredited Family Law Specialist with the Law Institute of Victoria, a trained mediator and collaborative lawyer. Monica has a passion for complex financial and parenting cases, and also specialises in Reproductive Law, including surrogacy.
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Recorded Webinars
Recorded Webinar: Strategy and Procedure When Staring Down the Barrell of a Disciplinary Complaint (Practice Mgmt & Business Skills - family law)
Family law comes with high emotions, and high stakes. As a result, even the most scrupulous lawyer may at some point face a complaint by a disgruntled client. With family lawyers some of the most complained-about practitioners in the legal profession, forewarned is fo
PRESENTED BY
Monica Blizzard
Equity Director, Accredited Family Law Specialist -
KHQ
, Melbourne
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About the Webinar
Family law comes with high emotions, and high stakes. As a result, even the most scrupulous lawyer may at some point face a complaint by a disgruntled client. With family lawyers some of the most complained-about practitioners in the legal profession, forewarned is forearmed. This risk management session explains what to do when a complaint is made about you to the regulator:
- Responding to the initial complaint – the right way and wrong way when dealing with the regulator
- Resolving matters quickly – best practice
- The penalties hearing – approaches to take
- When should you choose to give evidence?
- Findings of fact and credibility issues
- When will the commissioner accept an undertaking?
- Understanding the implications of providing undertakings
- When should you engage counsel?
Presented By
Monica Blizzard
Equity Director, Accredited Family Law Specialist, KHQ Melbourne, Vic.Who Should Attend?
This webinar is suitable for family lawyers - Australia wide and it has been designed to deliver the the Practice Management Business Skills compulsory subject unit for th
CPD Information
unit for the CPD year ending 31st March 2019.
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