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Proactive conflict management: beyond the conflict check

Event Recording

30 November 2022

Topic	Operational Management
Type	Event Recording
CPD	1 - Ethics and Professional Responsibility

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To establish and maintain proactive conflict management, we must first understand and be able to identify conflicts. We cannot check for what we cannot recognise. Once we understand conflicts, we can then go about checking for conflicts.

What information do we need and what processes should we adopt in carrying out those checks?
What are the red flag instructions or circumstances which should make us particularly wary of the risk of conflicts?
Finally, let’s look at some case studies where conflicts have arisen. What can we learn from them?

Provided by

Ashley Macknay

Director at MDS Legal

Ashley Macknay is a Director of MDS Legal in Perth and practises principally in the areas of professional indemnity (defending claims against lawyers) and professional discipline relating to the legal profession.

Ashley has been a member of the panels of solicitors for both Law Mutual (WA) (the Law Society of Western Australia’s professional indemnity arm) and the Legal Practice Board of Western Australia (the regulator of the legal profession in Western Australia) for many years.

Ashley was a member of the Legal Profession Rules Advisory Committee in Western Australia which drafted the Legal Profession Conduct Rules 2010 (WA)

Ashley has also been the Law Society of Western Australia’s delegate to the Professional Ethics Committee of the Law Council of Australia since the inception of that Committee in 2009. As a member of that Committee, Ashley has participated in the drafting of the Australian Solicitors’ Conduct Rules, which are about to replace in Western Australia the Legal Profession Conduct Rules 2010 (WA), and the Commentary to the Australian Solicitors’ Conduct Rules.