LPLC's Engagement Decision Tool helps you develop a more manageable approach to client engagement.
Lawyers can get themselves into hot water when they neglect to go through a thorough client engagement process.
Our handy engagement decision tool can help you develop a more manageable approach.
Make it routine for every client and every matter.
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LPLC has created a very basic, generic File Note template as a MS word (.dotx) file for practitioners and firms to download, adapt and use to create electronic file notes. The template can also be printed to use as a hardcopy, handwritten file note.
Practitioners are often engaged by a client to ‘do the conveyancing’ associated with the sale or purchase of real property. Typically, they are not specifically instructed to provide taxation or stamp duty advice, but there is usually no transaction relating to real property that doesn’t have taxation or duty implications
Always first confirm the currency in which money is to be sent before transferring funds overseas
Regular file audits are a crucial aspect of effective practice management, ensuring compliance with key procedures. By conducting audits, the firm can proactively identify and mitigate risks, improve processes, and maintain consistently high-quality work across all client matters. These audits not only highlight unmanaged risks but also reveal opportunities to enhance practices and procedures.
Legal practitioners acting in property transactions take note that the foreign resident capital gains withholding (FRCGW) rules are changing on 1 January 2025.
The Legal Practitioners’ Liability Committee (LPLC) is pleased to announce the appointment of Mary Maini as LPLC’s new Chief Executive Officer from 6 January 2025.
The LPLC Annual Report for 2023–2024 was tabled in the Victorian Parliament on 31 October 2024.
