This page gives information on organisations providing CPD and training courses for Lawyers.
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This page gives information on organisations providing CPD and training courses for Lawyers.
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Kaplan Altior (formerly (formerly Lawyers Planning Services)
is a leading UK provider of management consulting services and skills training courses for lawyers.
Each year they tutor thousands of professionals in the UK and abroad as well as advising a large number
of firms on a consulting basis. All courses are accredited for CPD purposes by The Law Society,
The Bar Council and The Institute of Legal Executives. Courses include Advocacy, Civil Litigation,
Legal Aid, Clinical Negligence, LSC Contract Compliance & Management Audits, Commercial, Crime,
Management Course Stage 1, Management Course Stage 2, Employment, Practice Management, Family, Professional
Skills Course, Higher Rights of Audience and Property. Together with their sister companies Kaplan Law School
and Kaplan Hawksmere, they offer legal training for all stages of a legal career.
Kate Shepherd Associates is a training company
specialising in employment law training in the Midlands. Kate is a qualified solicitor and worked at a senior level
within private practice before setting up the company. She has brought together a team of experts in
employment law, HR, management development, health and safety, communication, cultural and behavioural
change, diversity, workplace mediation and psychology.
Katherine Long Associates is a Law Society approved provider
of CPD credited coaching to solicitors, operating from the West Midlands.
She provides One to One Coaching, CPD Credited Coaching for Solicitors, Team Coaching, Coaching for
Intercultural Competencies and In-house Coach Support.
1 King's Bench Walk hold eight CPD
accredited conferences per year, to assist solicitors to keep their knowledge up-to-date and
at the forefront of family and criminal law. Four of our conferences are dedicated to Criminal Law,
these are held in March, October, November and January. Our Family Law conferences cover
Finance & Divorce (April), Child Law (May & October) and Child Abduction (January). See the site
for more details of all these courses. 1KBW specialise in family law and criminal law and are consistently
among the top ranked sets in the leading law directories.
Kintish have helped thousands of people become confident and
effective networkers by offering business networking tips, techniques and training.
They provide CPD courses for lawyers in business networking and business development.
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Law Skills as a training consultancy was set up by Gill Steel in 2000.
Since then she has become known as the ‘Guru of all things Private Client’ both as a consultant and lecturer.
She has over 25 years specialist experience and has helped over 400 firms of all sizes.
She has spoken at over 750 events to approx 20,000 practitioners and she has
written the Trust Practitioners Handbook published by The Law Society.
Gill is a compelling seminar and conference speaker both in-house and at public events with a strong gift
for making Wills, Probate, Trusts and Tax practical, engaging, authoritative and informative.
She has an MBA in Legal Practice Management and is currently a Consultant to Blake Lapthorn.
Law South provides a wide range courses for lawyers and
support staff at all levels. The portfolio includes introductions to the major legal topics for support
staff and para-legals, courses on new legislation aimed at more senior fee-earners and a variety of
personal and management skills courses for everyone from receptionists to senior partners. All courses
are accredited for Law Society and ILEX CPD and take place in London and central locations in the south
east. All skills courses can be adapted to run in-house and to suit individual firms' own
environments and protocols.
Lawyers in Business is
dedicated to developing, coaching and supporting
in-house lawyers. They run workshops accredited for Law Society and Bar Council
CPD on how to orchestrate legal services, manage legal departments and deal
with transactions and situations with which in-house lawyers are confronted.
The workshops and seminars are listed
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Lawyers Online offer Online CPD,
a way of earning up to 75% of of your annual CPD requirement via distance learning by studying
material on their web site and answering a set of questions. It has the major
benefit that you can take the CPD approved course before you spend any money (Try before you Buy).
All you have to do is read the course material on this web site (listed under Courses in the menu).
Then fill out the Questionnaire. Once completed it will tell you how many CPD Points you are entitled to.
The Law Society provides
various CPD seminars, listed on this site.
Legal Action Group provides a
programme of continuing professional development courses which are
designed to meet the needs of legal aid
practitioners, advisers and voluntary sector professionals.
Legal Aid Practitioners Group
represents over 800 firms of High Street Solicitors, committed to legal aid work.
They offer a comprehensive programme of reasonably priced CPD courses.
Legal Finance Professionals offer CPD accredited courses on a range of
Regulatory and Compliance topics. Subjects include the Solicitors' Accounts Rules 1998, Code of Conduct 2007,
Money Laundering Regulations 2007, Residential Conveyancing: Regulatory and Compliance Issues, VAT for Solicitors
and Bookkeeping for Solicitors. They also deliver bespoke courses tailored to meet a firm's precise training needs in these important subject areas.
Legal Training is an accredited online CPD provider for barristers,
solicitors and legal executives. The website offers reasonably priced, instant access, online CPD courses covering
a range of practice areas and subjects; family law, criminal law, civil law, practice management and IT skills.
Costs are £15 per CPD point with a range of courses from 1 to 3 CPD points, and a multi-buy discount offer of 12 CPD
points for the price of 9. There is also a no quibble money-back guarantee. Established by Amanda Millmore a barrister
(currently non-practising) and an IT professional, the courses offer interesting, informative ways of obtaining
CPD. The whole process is completed online.
Legaltraining.tv Ltd
is an innovative publisher of online legal training (including CPD) and news for qualified and
student lawyers in the UK and Internationally. There are many courses available and prices are very reasonable.
LGG is the Local Government Group, comprising all solicitors employed by
local authorities in England and Wales. They work in close association with
ACSeS - the Association of Council Secretaries and Solicitors and organise
100 legal training events each year, focussed on the training needs of
public law/local government practitioners. They provide legal updates, basics
and advanced courses, management courses, skills training and tailor made
courses. Since 1987 they have provided training for over 50,000 delegates
attending over 2000 training events. The Law Society, The Bar Council, ILEX
and many organisations for CPD purposes, accredits LGG.
Liverpool Law Society was
founded in 1827 and now has 1,600 members in practice within the Merseyside area.
It is one of the largest law societies in England and Wales.
Membership is broad and varies from practitioners engaged in high value commercial
work to complex charity work; from Maritime law to legal aid.
There is a major law library which is one of the largest outside London and the Society
runs its own CPD courses and arranges special events and exhibitions. There are over 200 legal and
non-legal courses annually throughout the North West. Rates are competitive and members of
the Liverpool Law Society receive additional discounts. All courses are accredited by the
Law Society, Bar Council and ILEX.
London Legal Training was established
in May 2000 by solicitor and lecturer Nigel Lipton to provide both in house and public courses and conferences
for solicitors, barristers and other professionals. Speakers at the
courses and conferences are acknowledged leaders in their field. As well as
providing courses and conferences on general practice areas, London
Legal Training also runs more specialist courses and conferences such as
conferences on Media, Entertainment & Intellectual Property Law and Sports
Law.
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For legal secretaries
Pitman Training Centres in Ireland is the largest independent training
network in Ireland. The company provides computer courses and office skills computer training to businesses
and individuals alike and offers the Legal Secretary Diploma.
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MBL Seminars was established in July 2003 to meet the
training and development requirements of the professional service firm sector. Producing the highest
quality seminars on Management, Business and Law-related topics, they only use speakers who are leaders
in their fields of expertise. You can opt in to receive emails about new courses as they are available.
Mentor Online Lectures
cover a wide range of subjects, particularly in commercial and insolvency law.
Lectures are accredited
by the Law Society, Bar Council and Institute of Legal Executives, and recognised for
CPD purposes by all the major accountancy bodies.
The lectures are filmed and presented using the latest video and audio technology
together with streaming to ensure fast access. They can be accessed anytime and
anywhere in the world. Each lecture is a practical and informative guide,
tackling head on the latest law and insolvency issues in this exciting new medium.
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Netlaw Media is a U.K based conference and events organisation which
delivers high quality strategic law events, conferences and training programmes to the U.K and European legal sectors.
They specialise in producing highly informative programs that deliver cutting edge presentations conducted by renowned U.K,
European and Internationally acclaimed speakers. Events integrate a formulated blend of strategies, case studies and
interactive discussions and workshops to enable law firms and their staff to gain a leading edge in a constantly evolving
and demanding marketplace.
New Law Training is an online based provider of CPD seminars and
lectures for barristers, solicitors and members of ILEX.
The CPD seminars / lectures are designed to be informative, educational and affordable.
All seminars / lectures are delivered in Birmingham.
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Practical Law Company
provides a range of events, conferences and training courses in association with various third parties
such as The College of Law and MacIntyre Hudson. Courses cater for lawyers both in private practice and
in-house and cover a wide range of topics. They hold the successful annual PLC Law Department Forum
for senior in-house counsel as well as ad-hoc conferences on hot topics and current issues.
Practical Law Tutors provide professional courses
for criminal defence solicitors, court clerks and prosecutors at UK-wide venues. They are CPD-accredited
so each course will count towards your CPD hours. Courses are held at unique locations throughout the
country and are run by two highly experienced, practising solicitors. Course fees are extremely
competitive and detailed notes are provided to all delegates.
Price Professional Development
is a new company specialising in skills (non-legal) training for Lawyers at all levels. Their
training and coaching programmes are accredited by the Law Society and ILEX for CPD. Their philosophy
is to inspire people to create a compelling future and grow as a result. Their programmes are fun,
practical and the skills people develop will last a lifetime.
Professional Solutions is a training and consultancy company
in areas of professional development, HR training, professional solutions, and consultancy.
Bringing together leading barristers chambers and expert
speakers from the wider legal field, training events provide maximum benefit from a continuous professional
development legal training programme suitable for lawyers, solicitors and barristers.
All Professional Solutions training is CPD accredited by the Law Society and the Bar Council.
Progressive Legal Training
provide regional training nationwide at over 30 locations. They plan over
1,000 courses each CPD year. You can search for courses online either by
town, title or geographical or subject area. They offer a membership scheme
and provide in house training courses at set prices.
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SCL (The Society for Computers and Law) offers a range of CPD
accredited courses on IT law, e-commerce, data protection and allied topics. The SCL Web site offers news
and articles and access to recordings of meetings and seminars. SCL is an educational charity and its
seminars, group meetings and conferences provide cost-effective training for those able to attend in
person; all qualify for CPD. Discounted rates for attendance apply to SCL members. Membership costs £95 pa
and members get free access to online courses based on podcasts of meetings and the SCL magazine content which
enable them to gain 75% of their CPD requirement online.
Sheffield Law Society run a training programme
on a wide variety of topics, available to both members & non-members.
Socrates Training provides know
how materials for law firms, including CPD accredited training on audio CDs and cassettes.
They offer a pack on money laundering, comprising a compliance manual, forms and precedents,
and up to 2 hours training on CDs and tapes. Launched in January 2004, the pack offers
firms all they need to comply with the new money laundering regulations, in force 1 March 2004.
The people behind Socrates are former Director of the London College of Law,
Bernard George, and Frances Owen, former head of Business Law at the London College of Law.
Solicitors in Local Government Limited is a professional
association which represents the 4,000 local government solicitors and trainees in England and Wales.
It runs a network of 9 regional branches which provide networking and training opportunities through
branch meetings and Special Interest Groups.
Providing over 100 courses a year, LGG Training offers the local government lawyer all the
practice updates, professional skills and practice management training they will need.
Standing Conference of Mediation Advocates
(SCMA) provides in-house and open training in mediation representation and advocacy for lawyers and others,
negotiation skills, and mediation awareness. It is an accredited provider of advocacy courses to the Bar
Standards Board, ILEX and RICS-DRS Life Long Learning.
Stubb Legal is an accredited distance
learning course provider, supplying audio cassettes to solicitors
which recount all the latest legal developments.
An audio recording is brought out in each of six different areas, every other month,
summarising all the legal developments which have occurred.
Areas covered include Civil Litigation,
Commercial, Family, Property/Probate, Criminal and General Practice.
Each audio recording is approximately 1 hour long, and therefore worth 1 CPD point.
A free sample audio cassette can be obtained on request.
Sweet and Maxwell
offers a series of CPD accredited conferences and events covering a wide
range of subjects - from criminal law and human rights to planning, personal
injury and professional negligence. Speakers are frequently leading figures
in the legal profession or authors of the company's major legal texts.
Take the link to Conferences.
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The Law Report is a new service available from
Russell Jones & Walker
providing a series of 30 minute podcast interviews with key legal, political and business figures.
As well as covering core legal matters, it is intended that these will enable legal professionals to enhance
their knowledge of the wider issues affecting law businesses.
Initial episodes include interviews with Peter Williamson, chair of the Solicitors Regulation Authority and
Lord Whitty, chair of the National Consumer Council, and a discussion on the latest developments in discrimination law.
CPD accreditation will shortly be available for these podcasts.
The Solicitors Coach is a company set up by
Kate Tingey (Solicitor), to provide Law Society and ILEX Accredited Training and Coaching for Solicitors
and Legal Executives, in Milton Keynes & Surrounding Areas. Topics covered include how to increase Fee Income,
mprove overall performance and market the Firm more effectively.
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Web4law are a specialist risk and quality consultancy that have recently
succeeded in gaining the Law Society training contract for training in the
new Lexcel scheme. The company has also prepared the forthcoming revision
to the Law Society's office procedures manual due out in April. The company's money laundering
training consists of a two hour session for fee earners with a shorter equivalent for support staff.
The training is accompanied by a CD PowerPoint programme for use in future induction
meetings and for those who miss the session. A team of five presenters are
available to deliver the course.
Wiki Mental Health now provides a CPD scheme
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Xpl Professional Skills Training provides bespoke in-house advocacy,
procedural and professional and management skills training for lawyers. It specialises in written advocacy,
effective persuasion and negotiation, mediation and other ADR, appellate and tribunal advocacy, time-management,
client relations, delegation and appraisal. Clients include Herbert Smith, Norton Rose, Lovells and Burges Salmon;
and through Mitchell LC, Allen & Overy.
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