Speaking & CPD Events
Joe Rose, Principal of Rose Legal, is regularly invited to present at CPD events for law societies, regional law associations, leading legal education and member bodies. The sessions below reflect some of the engagements Joe and the Rose Legal team have delivered or are scheduled to deliver in 2026.
Costs in Focus: Key Case Law Updates and What They Mean for Your Practice
Delivered to Clarence Professional Group’s network of sole practitioners and small law firms, this session provided an in-depth review of the most significant costs decisions from the past 12 months — unpacking recent rulings, explaining their practical implications, and providing actionable strategies to help firms ensure compliance and manage risk.
Managing Fee and Client Complaints — Practical Strategies for Practice
An online CPD session exploring practical strategies for minimising fee disputes, recovering fees, and managing high-conflict clients with professionalism and ethical integrity. Topics included common billing pitfalls, techniques to prevent escalation, understanding client conflict triggers, and ethical conduct under pressure.
Essentials on Costs: Navigating Solicitor/Client Costs Disputes in Victoria
Part of Clarence’s evening seminar series, this session equipped Victorian practitioners with the essential knowledge and strategies to manage solicitor/client costs disputes effectively — including LPUL compliance, ethical obligations in costs disclosure, practical tips for preventing client disputes, negotiation tactics prior to assessment, and navigating the Costs Court.
Costs, Complaints and Compliance: Ethics, Case Law and Practical Strategies for Managing Fees and Client Disputes
Delivered as part of a full CPD day (4 CPD points), this ethics-focused session examined recent costs case law alongside practical strategies for managing fee disputes and client complaints. Topics included costs disclosure, costs agreements, invoicing, and responding to challenges to fees — with a focus on ethical obligations, compliance, and risk management.
Costs in Focus: Key Case Law Updates and What They Mean for Your Practice
Delivered as part of the North & North West Law Society's annual full-day CLE and Members Dinner, this session provided an in-depth review of the most significant costs decisions from the past 12 months — unpacking recent rulings, explaining their practical implications, and offering actionable strategies to help practitioners ensure compliance and manage risk.
Managing Fee Disputes and Client Complaints — Practical Strategies
Fee disputes and client complaints are among the most significant risks facing legal practitioners — regardless of seniority or practice area. Drawing on recent case law, this practical session covers costs disclosure obligations under the Legal Profession Uniform Law, scoping costs agreements to minimise exposure, avoiding common billing and recovery pitfalls, and navigating the assessment process when disputes escalate.
Legal Costs in Practice — What Every Practitioner Needs to Know
This session covers the practical essentials of costs disclosure compliance (including the obligation to update), strategies for managing fee disputes and client complaints before they escalate, and advice on assessments, including the impact of the new Victorian costs rules. Drawn from real-world cases and recent decisions, with time for questions.
