Digital signing webinar

Property Law Section Deputy Chair, Kristine King will host presenters Gene Turner, Managing Director - LawHawk and Robert Metcalf, Deputy Registrar-General of Land - Toitū Te Whenua LINZ, as they take us through a real-life digital signing scenario in a property transaction.

Kristine “the practitioner” will be guided by Gene “the tech guru”, with Robert “the regulator” to ensure compliance with LINZ’s identity verification requirements and the Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017. There will be an interactive role play, with a practical and visual depiction of the process. They will also explain how the requirement for non-repudiation is met.

This webinar is a follow up to the Updated A & I Requirements for E-dealing Standard and Guideline 2024 webinar, held in November last year.

Learning aims:

• understand how digital signing works in a property transaction
• learn what is compliant when signing digitally, and what’s not
• gain an awareness of different digital signing products
• learn how to tag documents to make signing easier for clients
• learn how to help clients prepare for and navigate the “digital signing” meeting, disclosure versus the signing process.

Who should attend:

• property lawyers
• registered legal executives and property support staff
• managing partners, practice managers, decision-makers considering whether to make an investment in digital signing technology.

About the presenters:

Kristine King is the Deputy Chair of the Law Society’s Property Law Section, and a director of DK Law, a specialist property practice in Auckland. Kristine is co-convenor of the PLS Property Law Reform Panel and a tribunal member of the New Zealand Lawyers & Conveyancers Disciplinary Tribunal. She is a regular presenter at seminars for the legal profession and industry.

Gene Turner leads legal automation firm LawHawk, which helps lawyers and businesses improve and automate their processes. He was a corporate & finance partner at Buddle Findlay before founding LawHawk in 2015. He is a Fellow of World Commerce & Contracting, is on the Advisory Board of the Centre for Legal Innovation and holds an MBA (Distinction) from Victoria University.  With a focus on outcomes, LawHawk projects have won World Commerce & Contracting Awards for Operational Improvement in 2019 and 2021.

Robert Metcalf is the Deputy Registrar-General of Land at Toitū Te Whenua LINZ.  He has been working in property law since 2005. Prior to this appointment, he was a director at Tripe Matthews Feist in Wellington.

This webinar will be recorded and sent to all who register.