Contact Details
p: +61 2 9514 3765
f: +61 2 9514 3400
Location
Faculty of Law
Cnr Quay St & Ultimo Road
Haymarket NSW 2007
Room# CM05B.02.13
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Mailing Address
UTS:LAW
P.O. Box 123
Broadway NSW 2007
AUSTRALIA
Areas of Expertise
› Legal Education
› Ethics & Professional Responsibility
› Dispute Resolution
› Wills & Estates
› Legal Costs
Current Teaching
75402 Property Transactions
75412 Legal Skills and Professional Awareness
75416 Professional Conduct 2
75413 Advocacy
75403 Commercial and Estate Practice
Academic Profile
Maxine Evers has taught in the Faculty's Practical Legal Training (PLT) program since 1999- initially as a part-time tutor and since 2004 as a full-time staff member.
Maxine was a solicitor in a large suburban firm for 10 years where she practiced in litigation, conveyancing and small business transactions, and wills and estates. She has also worked for a short time as a legal officer in the Attorney-General's Department.
Maxine has a continuing research interest in legal costs and dispute resolution within the profession. She is currently a member of the NSW Law Society's Costs Working Group. Maxine is also academic member of the NSW Bar Associations' Professional Conduct Committee
Current Research Activities
2008 PPF Grant: PLT - A Decade of Change (with Bronwyn Olliffe and Robyn Pettit)
2008 PPF Grant: A History of Legal Ethics
2006 LSF grant: "Professional Misconduct"
2006 LSF grant: "Putting duty to client ahead of Duty to Court"
Recent Publications
"The Ethics of Collaborative Practice", (2008) 19 ADRJ 1
"Legal Costs and the Duty of Disclosure", Precedent, Australian Lawyers Alliance, August 2008
"Children of the 21st Century: Are they skilled in the art of negotiation?" (2005) 16 ADRJ 116
Conference Papers
The Duties of In-House counsel - The Bold, the Bright and the Blurred? ALTA Conference, July 2008 (with Jason Harris)
Changes in legal ethics - from the colony to Cairns, ALTA Conference, July 2008
PLT - A Decade of Change, APLEC Conference, Novemeber 2007 (with Bronwyn Olliffe and Robyn Pettit)
Professional Misconduct - How is it Emerging in the 21st Century? ALTA Conference, July 2006