Program Category Training Objectives
Professional Practice 1. Ground legal professionals in the basics of core practice areas and professional skills so they continue to uphold the highest standards of professionalism.
2. Update legal professionals on developments in core practice areas.
3. Identify and provide training in growing or emerging areas of law to retool legal professionals, restructure law practices and adequately meet growing or emerging client needs.
Practice Management 1. Communicate the requirements of the Legal Profession Act and the relevant Rules to equip practitioners for continued compliance.
2. Equip practitioners with specific knowledge, skills and attitudes required in effective law practice management, including in areas such a professional standards, ethics, law practice accounting, risk management and legal technology.
Business & Management 1. Provide legal professionals with cross-disciplinary business, management and technical skills to better manage their law practices and to understand the industry or commercial environment in which they practice.
2. Update legal professionals on developments, trends and best practices in business and management that may be distilled and applied to the business of law.
3. Provide inter-professional networking opportunities.
Personal Development Address the broader intellectual, emotional and psychological needs of legal professionals so as to improve their general quality of life.