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Data-driven Legal Practice

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Peter Leonard, Principal of Data Synergies, guides you through managing and protecting client information, obtaining data as evidence and managing the threat of exfiltration.

About this course

This course addresses ways in which lawyers’ interface with data, specifically:

  • First challenge - how we run legal businesses
  • Second challenge - where and how lawyers collect evidence
  • The regulatory context, ‘legal ethical obligations’ and legal sector specific regulation
  • Preservation of evidence
  • Inadvertent disclosure
  • Illegally obtained evidence
  • Is illegally obtained evidence able to be admitted in legal proceedings?
  • Cyber threats to law firms and where they come from
  • Disclosure by lawyers of confidential information and exposure of third parties
  • How bad can it get for a law firm? The Panama Papers and the Paradise Papers
  • How to avoid being a statistic.

Course structure

This course consists of a one-hour video recording of a lecture by Peter Leonard, Principal of Data Synergies, together with reference resources.

Continuing Professional Development (CPD)

For NSW lawyers, the Law Society of New South Wales advises: “If this particular educational activity extends your knowledge and skills in areas that are relevant to your practice needs or professional development, then you should claim one (1) “unit” for each hour of attendance, refreshment breaks not included.

Learning outcomes

This seminar will assist participants to:

  • Understand the challenges facing lawyers in relation to data use
  • Identify cyber threats to law firms
  • Assess strategies for managing data in legal practice.

Discounts

A discount of 10% is available to UTS Alumni or UTS Staff enrolling in this short course. If you are eligible for this discount, please ensure you have provided your UTS Student or Staff ID number during checkout.

When signing up for the session, use the relevant voucher code to apply the discount to your cart:

  • UTS Student / Alumni: Lawalumni
  • UTS Staff: Lstaff

Please note that discounts cannot be combined. A limit of one discount applies per person per course session.

Enrolment conditions

Course purchase is subject to UTS Open Terms and Conditions. 

COVID-19 response 

UTS complies with latest Government health advice. Delivery of all courses complies with the UTS response to COVID-19.

Who is this course for?

This program is particularly useful for:

  • General practitioners

  • Corporate lawyers and in house counsel

  • Practice managers

  • Sole traders

  • Legal information/data managers.

 

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UTS acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the Boorooberongal people of the Dharug Nation, the Bidiagal people and the Gamaygal people, upon whose ancestral lands our university stands. We would also like to pay respect to the Elders both past and present, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge for these lands.

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