COURSE CATEGORY
Ethics and professional responsibility
The ethics of negotiation and undertakings
Reviewed on 12 November 2025.
In this course, Steve Mark AM, Director, Creative Consequences and former NSW Legal Services Commissioner will take you through a comprehensive ethical overview of the practical legal ethics of negotiation and undertakings.
This course will cover the following:
- Rules vs values
- Solicitors’ undertakings
- The solicitors’ conduct rules
- Principled negotiation
- First peoples thinking
- Case study
Completion of this course will earn you 1 CPD unit.
TARGET AUDIENCE
All practitioners
CPD POINTS
1
TYPE
Video-based interactive module
Course Author: Steve Mark AM
Steve Mark is a lawyer by profession and was the New South Wales Legal Services Commissioner from 1994 to August 2013.
Prior to being appointed Legal Services Commissioner of New South Wales, Steve was President of the New South Wales Anti-Discrimination Board from 1988 to 1994.
Steve is Chairman of the Australian Section of the International Commission of Jurists (ASICJ), a Council member of International House at the University of Sydney, a member of the University of New England School of Law Advisory Board and an Adjunct Fellow in the School of Law at the University of New England.
Further to that, Steve is a teaching Fellow in legal ethics at UNSW Law School and Business law at the UNSW School of Management and Governance.
