COURSE CATEGORY
Ethics and professional responsibility
Supervision and delegation – ethics and professional conduct issues
Published 20 January 2026.
Effective supervision is an ethical cornerstone of legal practice. Both supervisors and junior lawyers must understand their professional duties – especially as remote work, technology and AI reshape daily practice. This session clarifies expectations, strengthens safe delegation and supports healthier, more compliant workplace cultures.
Learning outcomes:
- Apply core supervisory duties effectively and ethically
- Manage delegation within remote and hybrid team environments
- Use practice management software to support supervision workflows
- Integrate GenAI tools safely while maintaining oversight obligations
- Strengthen junior-lawyer responsibilities in daily practice
- Promote wellbeing and honour the right to disconnect
Completion of this course will earn you 1 CPD unit.
Completion of this course will earn you 1 CPD unit.
TARGET AUDIENCE
All practitioners
CPD POINTS
1
TYPE
Video-based interactive module
Course Author: Cathryn Urquhart
Facilitator, Legal Practice Management Course, The College of Law, WA
Cathryn Urguhart studied Law at the University of Western Australia and was admitted in WA in 1988.
She has had a diverse career working for national law firms mainly in Insurance and Construction litigation, as well as time spent as a Claims Solicitor at Law Mutual, the professional indemnity insurance section of the Law Society of WA. She has lectured and tutored at universities in WA.
Currently, Cathryn is the Facilitator of the Legal Practice Management Course at the College of Law in WA. She also has her own business and works for a range of law firms and other businesses as a Professional Skills Trainer and Coach.
