CPD Webinar - Lost in Translation: Working Across Worlds for Professionals

1 CPD Unit – Practice Management and Business Skills

Normal office culture, behaviour and communication policies commonplace in Australian professional practices may not translate well when dealing with international satellite offices, overseas strategic partnerships or foreign clients. As cross-border matters and multicultural offices become increasingly common in Australian practice, one cultural faux pas can quickly snowball into communication breakdowns, ethical risks, and unintended professional outcomes.

In this presentation, Sasha Lynch from WRP Legal will draw on his experience working as an IP lawyer in Japan to provide some practical insight and strategies for navigating the complexities of working with colleagues and clients from around the world.

This practical webinar will address:

• Simple cultural frameworks to identify and understand cultural patterns of thinking among multinational clients and colleagues;
• How hierarchy, silence, and politeness during a meeting can turn deadly (and how to rescue the meeting before it collapses);
• Approaches to avoid miscommunication and build strong professional rapport across cultural lines; and
• Why cultural styles can turn simple instructions into misunderstandings and how to untangle them gracefully

This session blends real world anecdotes with practical tools to help practitioners and business managers communicate more clearly and manage expectations more confidently while working across cultures.

This not to be missed webinar is suitable for professional advisers, accountants and lawyers and is pitched at an intermediate level.

Continuing Professional Development

Legal CPD:

WA legal practitioners (QA Provider ID 29250)

1 CPD Unit, CPD Obligation Field 1 – Practice Management and Business Skills. To ensure you receive your CPD Units for this event, please provide us with your Legal Practice Board Practitioner ID during registration. Note: CPD Units are only available for participation in the live webinar. At this time, webinar recordings (for those that are registered but unable to attend) are not eligible for WA Legal CPD Units.

Legal practitioners outside of WA

If you consider that this webinar satisfies your individual requirement, or is relevant to your immediate or long-term professional development needs, you may claim 0.5 CPD Units for every 30 minutes of attendance and participation.

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Presenter: Sasha Lynch
Associate, WRP Legal

Sasha Lynch joined WRP Legal in January 2026 as an Associate.

Sasha is responsible for assisting the Intellectual Property team in managing a broad range of matters, including patents, trade marks, copyright, privacy and technology related issues.

Having extensive international experience advising on the registration, compliance, due diligence, procurement, transactions and licensing for trade mark, design and patent matters, Sasha works closely with clients across diverse jurisdictions.

Sasha specialises in intellectual property and technology law, with a strong focus on issues at the intersection of law, innovation and emerging technologies.

In addition, Sasha is involved in drafting and reviewing legal documentation for intellectual property and commercial transactions and supports the ongoing management of complex legal matters within this dynamic practice area.