UTS Faculty of Law Forum: 'Surviving the Downturn: Planning for the Recovery'

The effects of the global financial crisis have been keenly felt by law firms and other professions. UTS: Law is aware of the impact on employment opportunities for our graduates but, more immediately, the faculty is concerned for our stakeholders. In response, we are hosting a breakfast forum to discuss the topic, ‘Surviving the Downturn: Planning for Recovery.’ The forum will feature a panel of experts including Professor Jim Bright, a Partner of Bright and Associates; Cindy Carpenter, Executive Director of Human Resources and Marketing at Corrs Chambers Westgarth; and Chris Merritt, Legal Affairs Editor of The Australian.

Breakfast will be served at 7:30am for a 8:00am forum start.

The forum will be followed by a Q&A session.

Click here to register your attendance online. Please RSVP by 31 July 2009.

PRESENTERS:

Jim Bright is the Managing Partner of Bright and Associates. He has an international reputation as a career development professional based on his award winning innovative career development research, best-selling career development books and his entertaining and informative speaking and training. Jim has over 20 years of experience in psychology and career development. He is a BA(hons) and has a PhD in psychology. He has published over 225 books, chapters journal and newspaper articles, tests and reports. He is a fellow of both the Australian psychological society and the career development association of Australia and is a past national chairperson of the college of organisational psychologists. He holds Australia's first specifically-named professorial appointment in career development at ACU national. Jim writes the ladder column every week for the Sydney Morning Herald and the Melbourne Age newspapers.

Cindy Carpenter is the Executive Director of Human Resources and Marketing at Corrs Chambers Westgarth. She is also the Program Director for the firm’s organisation-wide change program, Corrs 2010. Cindy joined Corrs from The Boston Consulting Group where she was a principal before taking internal leadership roles and progressing to General Manager of the Australia and New Zealand offices. Cindy has an MBA from the Australian Graduate School of Management and Wharton School in the University of Pennsylvania. Cindy is also a member of the Council of Governing Members of The Smith Family.

Chris Merritt is legal affairs editor of The Australian and has been responsible for the paper’s Friday legal affairs section since its inception in 2005. Before that he edited The Australian Financial Review’s legal affairs section from its launch in 1997. He is a former chief of staff of the Financial Review and was business editor and then news editor of the one-time Fairfax broadsheet The Times on Sunday. He graduated from the UTS law school in 1994.