LawPro: Managing Risk

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Credits

Substantive: 0.5

30 minutes

Published

2025

Presenter(s)

Yvonne Bernstein

Andrea Camacho

Source

County of Carleton Law Association (CCLA)

Provider

CPDOnline.ca

Language

English

Length

30 minutes

Price

$139.00 plus tax

CCLA 34th Annual Institute of Family Law Conference

The presentation focuses on empowering family law lawyers with foundational risk management tools, including comprehensive client screening and fit assessment, drafting precise written retainers that define scope and financial terms, implementing financial control measures and asserting solicitor’s liens for unpaid accounts, documenting and enforcing settlement agreements with cooling‑off periods, establishing rigorous communication safeguards and email verification protocols, developing mandatory contingency plans in compliance with Law Society of Ontario requirements and adhering to LAWPRO reporting obligations, all to reduce malpractice exposure and strengthen practice resilience.

Presenters

Yvonne Bernstein

Yvonne Bernstein is a graduate of McGill University. She practiced family law and civil litigation prior to joining LawPro. Yvonne has continued her specialty in family law both in the area of claims as well as in the development of risk management tools for family law lawyers. In affiliation with DIVORCEmate Software, Yvonne worked on the development of Precedents+, a document creation program that utilizes a checklist format to create a customized and comprehensive domestic contract. Yvonne is a frequent speaker at programs on family law, risk management and professional responsibility. She was an instructor in both the Family Law Section and the Professional Responsibility Section of the Bar Admission Course for more than 10 years. She has authored numerous articles on family law and risk management issues.

Andrea Camacho

Andrea Camacho has practiced Family Law exclusively since she was called to the Bar in 1987. She was a partner at a national law firm in Ottawa for 14 years prior to establishing Warren Camacho LLP with her husband, Ian Warren. Andrea has extensive experience in all areas of Family Law, including, separation agreements, marriage contracts, cohabitation agreements, divorce, custody, child and spousal support and complex property matters. Andrea enjoys teaching Family Law and has been an instructor in the Bar Admission Course and a guest lecturer at the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Law.