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Mastering the complexities in Will Drafting

17 September, Brisbane
26 September, Perth

Will drafting is an essential part of law, especially for young lawyers. This one day conference will increase your skills and understanding of wills, ensuring that you become the professional who brings finese and expertise to your clients'.

Key Sessions

  • Solicitors' duties - Controlling the risk of negligence in the will drafting process
  • Challenging the will under the provisions of the inheritance Act - the legisaltive regime, case law and the practice and procedure
  • Critical steps in taking instructions from clients
  • Dealing with complex situtations - blended families and mutual wills
  • Ethics of Wills and bequests to charities
  • Will drafting strategies to adverse tax consequences
  • Best practice in will drafting workshop

Outstanding speaker faculty

Brisbane

  • Glenn Dickson, Public Trustee of Queensland
  • Tina Cockburn and Barbara Hamilton, Queensland University of Technology
  • Scott Whittla, MaCullough Robertson

Perth

  • Maree van Kwst, Dwyer Durack
  • Susan Fielding, Jackson McDonald
  • Elizabeth Heenan, Marks & Sands
  • Craig McKie, Norton Smailes

Purposefully designed education for

  • Young Lawyers
  • Articled Clerks
  • Junior Practitioners
  • Trainees

LexisNexis Wills Publications:

Click here for a wide range of Will publications from LexisNexis including:

Will Drafting Program
   

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