The Lawyer - Client Relationship: The Keys to Success
Examine the client–lawyer relationship, and how to establish qualities that help to ensure success over time. The focus is on supporting you to develop relationships that are based on trust, mutual understanding, and respect. Explore how to build rapport with clients, managing professional boundaries and understanding the role of empowerment.
- Rapport building and the role it plays in the lawyer-client relationship
- The role of empowerment in the lawyer-client relationship
- The different types of power that might be present in a lawyer-client relationship
- Professional boundaries
Presented by Dr Katie Wood, Clinical Psychologist and Julia Vitebsky, Solicitor
Description
* This interactive online recording includes questions and quizzes requiring critical thinking about the topics, so you have no annual limits to the number of points/hours you can claim with this format of learning. Please verify with your CPD rules
*Original Content was created in August 2022
Learning Objective:
- Develop skills to build trust, empower clients, and maintain professional boundaries in lawyer-client relationships.
Attend the full series and earn 1.5 CPD hours
Presenters
Julia Vitebsky, Solicitor
Julia was admitted to practice in 2016 after graduating from Monash University with a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Laws (Juris Doctor). She completed both degrees whilst having successfully competed nationally and internationally as a professional ballroom dancer for many years. Julia is incredibly client focused, commercially minded and pragmatic in her approach to every legal matter. Julia’s experience and skills in a number of different areas in private practice, including but not limited to, Family Law, Commercial Law, Litigation and Dispute Resolution, Property Law and Wills and Estates.
Dr. Katie Wood, Associate Professor and Clinical Psychologist
Katie is an Associate Professor and Clinical Psychologist at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia. Here, she is the course director for the Master of Psychology (Clinical Psychology) and Master of Counselling (and nested suites). She earned her PhD at La Trobe University and is a member of the Australian Psychological Society College of Clinical Psychologists. Katie’s research and clinical interests are in performance psychology, twin psychology, and child and adolescent mental health, including ASD, early relational trauma, and family violence. She is an author on numerous publications in this field, and has been in private practice for over 20 years where she works with clients across the lifespan. Previously, she has worked at Eastern Health Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service, and Albert Road Centre for Health.
