Forensic Accounting for Lawyers – Bathurst 14 October 2010

The principals at Dolman Bateman Co, specialists in forensic accounting in litigation invite you to join us at the inaugural Forensic Accounting for Lawyers Seminar in your regional centre of Bathurst.

A one-day seminar of litigation-specific presentations is scheduled for 14^th October, 2010 at Citigate Mount Panorama Bathurst.

Principals Fiona Bateman and Arnold Shields will each present an interactive session on their topic of expertise.

• Personal Injury: Economic loss for salaried earners and the self-employed.
• Family Law: Challenging business valuations in the Family Court
• Commercial Litigation: Understanding financial statements

We’re pleased to also introduce a practice marketing session;

• Internet Marketing for Lawyers: Using the internet to promote your practice

Booking and Payment Details

(we are using Eventbrite.com as our ticketing system)

Economic Loss in Personal Injury (1.5 CLE hours)

Overview

This session, presented by Fiona Bateman of Dolman Bateman, will provide lawyers with an understanding of the plaintiff’s true “uninjured, undiminished earning capacity” and the ability to maximise their claim. This session will give you practical skills and insights in:

• Understanding the story behind the financial accounts of the self employed
• Identifying the fringe benefits resulting from employment and self-employment
• Real life case studies
• Being able to prepare your client to keep records to support economic loss
• Dealing with career progression
• Unravelling complex structures
• Queries specific to your own case will be discussed

Who should attend?

Any lawyer practicing in personal Injury

Challenging Business Valuations in Family Law (1.5 CLE hours)

Overview

This session, presented by Arnold Shields of Dolman Bateman, examines and the explains the fundamentals of business valuations, how they apply in the Family Court and the most common mistakes in business valuations. This session will cover:

• Fundamentals of Business Valuations
• Overview of the Future Maintainable earnings method
• The concept of :”value to the owner” and how it is applied in business valuations.
• How we determine future maintainable earnings.
• How we determine the capitalisation rate.
• Why Rules of Thumb cannot be used.
• The most common mistakes made by accountants in business valuations and to spot them.

Who should attend?

Any lawyer practicing in Family Law and Commercial Litigation

Commercial Litigation (1.5 CLE hours)

Overview

This session, presented by Fiona Bateman of Dolman Bateman, will provide lawyers with a better understanding of financial documents. this will enable lawyers to better assist their clients, and to be more “forensic” in their knowledge and ability to test the opposing expert’s report. This session will cover:

• Challenging the financial expert’s report
• Recognising “creative” or manipulated financial accounts
• Assisting your client to gain a better result
• Case studies to gain a better result
• Case studies based a real cases
• Understanding why the financial accounts differ from the story provided by the client
• Unraveling complex tax structures
• Discussion of queries specific to your own cases.

Who should attend?

Any lawyers practicing in Personal Injury, Family Law or Commercial Litigation.

Overview

This session, presented by Arnold Shields of Dolman Bateman, introduces a simple strategy to promote a business or practice via the Internet. This session draws on Arnold’s knowledge and experience in developing website for business. This session will cover:

• Fundamentals of a website that works
• How to create an interactive website that sets you apart
• Three essential Internet marketing channels that deliver results
• How to rank highly in Google (Search Engine Optimisation)
• Keeping website content fresh and interesting
• How social media is used by legal practices

Who should attend?

Everybody in your office involved in marketing.