Modules:

• Cybersecurity, Data Protection & Privacy

Biography:

Viva is a lawyer specialising in privacy, cyber, technology, intellectual property and consumer law as part of a broad commercial contracting and regulatory compliance practice.

She provides strategic and commercial advice to clients on managing privacy compliance, cyber security and data governance. She also assists clients to navigate data breaches, privacy complaints and workplace privacy obligations.

Her clients include high-profile Australian and global corporates and organisations.

Publications

• Privacy Law Bulletin – various articles

Modules:

• Intellectual Property

Biography:

Jack is a registered Australian and New Zealand Patent Marks Attorney and registered Australia Trade Marks Attorney with over 26 years of experience primarily in patent law and practice in Australia and New Zealand.

Jack’s primary focus is on the development and active management of local and global patent portfolios for enforcement, licensing and strategic commercial positioning. He works with executives, managers, in-house attorneys, inventors, and principals to develop and implement patent strategies and ensure that those strategies are integrated with the organisation’s overall business plan.

Jack’s technical specialties include computer-implemented inventions, process control, integrated circuits and electronic components.

Modules:

• Property

Biography:

Christopher has extensive experience in all aspects of commercial property law including corporate sales and acquisitions, leases and agreements for lease, project development agreements, subdivisions and options. He also has significant experience in providing advice in: leasehold transactions, staged strata developments, stratum subdivisions, retirement village and aged care facilities, community title developments and public positive covenants.

Modules:

• Commercial
• Property

Biography:

A specialist in legal drafting, Philip’s work involved the preparation of tailor-made documents, including Deeds and Agreements of all kinds, to give effect to complex property and commercial transactions. He is also experienced in drafting and conducting revisions of constitutions and by-laws.

Philip chaired the Property Committee of the Law Society of South Australia for many years and, in that role, was actively involved in the review of proposed legislation affecting property and in the preparation of submissions for law reform. He also represented South Australia on the Australian Property Law Group of the Law Council of Australia and the Property Law Reform Alliance.

Modules:

• Personal Injury QLD

Biography:

Jo Sorbello is a barrister in private practice at the Queensland bar. Prior to being called to the bar, Jo practiced as a solicitor for over a decade and was an Accredited Specialist in Personal Injuries having been awarded the Highest Achievement award for the 2007 accreditation program.

Jo has extensive experience in all types of accident compensation claims including motor vehicle accidents, workers’ compensation, public liability and professional negligence claims.

Modules:

• Employment

Biography:

Alice is highly regarded and passionate about employment and industrial relations and this is reflected in the work she undertakes and the outcomes she achieves for her clients. She has worked in the area for nearly 25 years and is a recognised leader in the field.

Alice works with her clients in both the public and private sectors to devise and implement strategic plans in relation to employees, human resources and industrial relations. She is renowned for thinking outside the square to achieve clients’ organisational objectives, and for her practical and commercial approach to the resolution of issues – which often involves complex and difficult litigation. With deep expertise, Alice provides strategic advice in relation to employment structures and industrial relations planning and management, including union relations and collective bargaining.

Alice regularly represents clients in tribunals and superior courts in employment, industrial relations and restraint of trade/restrictive covenant cases and is a very experienced litigator. She is also an experienced trainer, regularly creating and delivering programs and sessions for clients that are designed to give them the knowledge and tools to comply with their obligations.

Modules:

• Personal Injury NSW

Biography:

Michael Gliksman is a registered specialist medical practitioner with a primary legal qualification. He is an Approved Medical Specialist and an Assessor under the auspices of WorkCover NSW and the NSW Motor Accidents Authority.

Modules:

• Intellectual Property

Biography:

Patricia is a Wuthathi, Mabuiag Islander and Ghanaian woman from Warrane/ Sydney. She has a Bachelor of Arts and Law from UNSW and is the First Nations Arts and Culture Director for Creative Australia (formerly known as the Australia Council for the Arts). Previously, Patricia was the Indigenous engagement manager at the Copyright Agency l Viscopy. She is also a 2018 Churchill fellowship recipient, investigating the practical application of laws in the USA and Panama that protect Indigenous cultural rights.

Patricia has worked on developing the Protocols for using First Nations Cultural and Intellectual Property in the Arts. Patricia has served on the City of Sydney, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander advisory panel and has been a Board member of the Contemporary Pacific Arts Festival and the Moogahlin Performing Arts Board. She is currently on the RAP advisory committees for Beyond Blue and Intrepid Travel. She is an advisory member of the Sunshine Coast Arts Committee. She is also a published author and has also written several articles and a chapter on Indigenous cultural intellectual property rights.

In 2010, Patricia worked at the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) in Geneva as the 2010 Indigenous Intellectual Property Law Fellow. This position provided valuable insight into the traditional knowledge division’s work that is being done as the Secretariat for the international normative process on the draft international instruments on Traditional knowledge. Trish also previously worked as a lawyer at the Arts Law Centre of Australia and National Indigenous TV. She is also a published author, having written several articles and a chapter on Indigenous cultural intellectual property rights.

Awards & Recognition

Churchill Fellowship Medallion for research in Indigenous cultural rights

Professional Organisations & Memberships

• Creative Australia (formerly known as Australia Council for the Arts)

Modules:

• Criminal

Biography:

Terry was admitted as a solicitor in 1994 and is a partner of the law firm Arthur Browne & Associates in Townsville. He is an accredited specialist in criminal law. During his career he has been involved in virtually all aspects of criminal law, including representation in numerous complex and high profile matters throughout regional Queensland. He was previously a member of the Queensland Law Society Criminal Law Committee and a current member of the Criminal Law Specialist Accreditation Advisory Committee.

He is a previous member of the Access to Justice and Pro-Bono committee and has served as a board member of Legal Aid Queensland. Terry is also an experienced lecturer at the James Cook University School of Law in the subjects of conveyancing and drafting, trust accounts, advocacy and criminal sentencing.

Modules:

• Commercial

Modules:

• Competition

Biography:

Rhonda is an academic economist who teaches competition law subjects to undergraduates and post graduates.

She was formerly a commissioner with the ACCC and has acted as an expert witness in a number of competition cases.

Modules:

• Construction

Biography:

Andrew has acted in a substantial number of successful complex litigious matters in various State and Federal Courts and he has acted for and advised clients across a wide range of industries and professions including building and construction, engineering, defence and professional practice. Andrew advises clients strategically about their dispute and how best to achieve the outcome they seek. He regularly appears in Court as counsel on behalf of his clients. 

Andrew is skilled in achieving client outcomes through mediation, arbitration and other forms of alternative dispute resolution (ADR). He advises clients regarding the advantages and disadvantages on using ADR. Where ADR is used he often appears as counsel on behalf of his clients. Andrew is qualified in mediation and arbitration (domestic and international), was a National Councillor and National Treasurer of the Institute of Arbitrator and Mediators and was the Treasurer of the South Australian Chapter.

Awards and Recognition
Doyle’s Guide – Leading Construction & Infrastructure Litigation Lawyers – South Australia, since 2015 edition

Memberships
Nationally Accredited Mediator (NMAS) 
Grade 1 arbitrator (Resolution Institute) 
Fellow, CPA Australia 
Fellow, Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration 
Fellow, Resolution Institute 
Fellow, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators 
Fellow, Asian Institute of Alternative Dispute Resolution 
Fellow, Philippines Institute of Arbitrators 
Chair, International Legal Practice Committee – Law Society of South Australia 
Member, ADR Committee – Law Society of South Australia 
Member, LAWASIA ADR and Litigation Committee 
Founder & National Chair, Society of Construction Law Australia 
Member, Construction and Infrastructure Committee – Law Council of Australia 

Speaking Engagements
IPSANZ: 07/08/2024 - Perspectives from an advocate and an arbitrator 
Resolution Institute: 22/10/2024 - Will Arbitration Survive Two Momentous Decisions? 
Law Society of South Australia: 22/11/2024 – The High Court and Arbitration 

Modules:

• Corporations

Biography:

Jen has experience in providing advice to large corporate clients, partnerships, directors and high net worth individuals and drafting relevant documents in respect of corporate and commercial issues including corporate governance, compliance with the Corporations Act and ASIC requirements, risk management, corporate restructure, board restructure, directors' duties and ongoing day-today advice on strategic commercial board level decisions.

Jen also has experience in running complex legal disputes arising from commercial developments, dissolution of companies and partnerships, directors' duties, consumer protection, allegations relating to breaches of contracts, technology and intellectual property, joint venture mining, property law, building and construction and general debt recovery.

Modules:

• Competition

Biography:

Wilson is a lawyer specialising in competition and consumer law investigations and litigation. As a Senior Investigator at the ACCC for approximately two years, he has lead and contributed to a number of litigious and investigative matters, including in relation to cartel conduct and contraventions of the Australian Consumer Law. Wilson now acts for a range of corporate clients in responding to investigations and proceedings brought by the ACCC and has also advised generally on the competition and consumer law aspects of commercial operations. Wilson has also assisted not-for-profit clients in pro bono matters.

Modules:

• Consumer

Biography:

Katrina is a competition and regulatory lawyer with a wealth of experience in highly regulated industries. Her practice includes merger clearances, authorisations and notifications, third-party access, price regulation, competition-related litigation and consumer protection. She regularly deals with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.

Katrina was assisted by: Jaime Lee, Associate; Eric White, Lawyer; and Wesley Lalich, Lawyer.

Modules:

• Commercial

Biography:

Paul was admitted as a solicitor in March 1970 and has been practising for over 40 years. Paul was accredited by the NSW Law Society as a business law specialist in 1993 and has continued with that specialty practice for 17 years.

Paul participated for 8 years as a member of the Business Law Accreditation Committee of the Law Society which conducts the assessments and examinations for accreditation of candidates for specialisation. He also served for a number of years as a committee member on each of the Property Law Committee and the Business Law Committee of the NSW Law Society.

Modules:

• Succession

Biography:

Brian Hor is the Principal and Legal Practitioner Director of WillWorks Pty Ltd, a boutique law practice specialising in providing sophisticated estate planning services.

Before establishing WillWorks Pty Ltd, Brian was a Partner with a "top tier" global professional services organisation and was a founder of its Private Clients Estate Planning practice in Australia.

Brian was also Chairman of the Financial Planning Association's Tax Committee and member of the FPA Public Policy Committee continuously from 1997 to 2004, and helped negotiate ATO concessions to assist financial planners' transition to the FSR regime, amend the PSI laws for the special circumstances of financial planners, and promote tax deductibility for tax advice given by financial planners. More recently Brian was an industry representative on the ATO's Alienation and Part IVA Working Group Review into the Alienation of Personal Services Income Rules in 2009.

Brian has published numerous professional articles, and regularly presents at professional training and legal education seminars on taxation, trusts, estate planning, asset protection and business structuring for organisations including The Taxation Institute, Television Education Network, LexisNexis, the Financial Planning Association, IBC Conferences, The Law Society of NSW, The CLE Centre, NSW State Legal Conferences, and The College of Law.

Modules:

• Employment

Biography: