How to Choose the Best Legal CPD Provider
Choosing the right legal CPD provider means looking beyond the number of programmes available. Relevant legal content, presenter expertise, practice-area coverage and flexible learning formats all matter.
Lawyers should compare legal CPD providers based on practice-area relevance, the quality and experience of presenters, current subject matter, practical learning and access to different learning formats.
Legalwise Seminars provides legal CPD across face-to-face, online and interactive on-demand formats, with programmes covering a broad range of legal practice areas.
Professional development is most valuable when it is relevant to the work a lawyer actually performs. A practitioner working in family law may have very different learning priorities from someone working in property, employment, criminal, commercial or succession law.
Learning preferences matter too. Some practitioners value scheduled face-to-face learning, while others need the flexibility of online or interactive on-demand professional development. For law firms, there may also be a need to manage CPD activity across multiple team members.
When comparing legal CPD options, consider whether the provider can deliver professional development that is relevant, practical and flexible enough to work alongside legal practice.
No single learning format will be the best choice for every lawyer. Face-to-face, online and interactive on-demand CPD each provide different benefits, so the right format depends on the practitioner, subject matter, location and workload.
Face-to-face CPD provides a scheduled in-person learning environment. Legalwise offers face-to-face professional development as part of its legal CPD programmes.
Online CPD gives lawyers access to professional development without requiring travel, providing more flexibility for practitioners in different locations.
Legalwise interactive on-demand CPD recordings provide self-paced learning and are interactive. Legalwise states that recordings are available for 30 days from receipt and can be viewed unlimited times during that period.
The right CPD format depends on how, where and when you prefer to learn. Access to multiple formats gives practitioners more choice throughout the professional development year.
Legalwise offers professional development across a broad range of practice areas. The programme available at any particular time will vary, but Legalwise's site includes areas such as:
Legalwise Seminars provides continuing professional development for lawyers and legal practitioners across face-to-face, online and on-demand formats.
- Multiple learning formats: Legalwise offers face-to-face, online and interactive on-demand professional development.
- Broad practice-area coverage: Legalwise provides programmes across a range of legal practice areas.
- Upcoming programmes: practitioners can select professional development from the current Legalwise programmes.
- Interactive on-demand recordings: Legalwise offers self-paced recorded professional development.
- Firm-wide CPD management: Legalwise also provides corporate CPD packages for firms managing professional development across multiple lawyers.
Yes. Legalwise Corporate CPD Packages are available for firms managing professional development across multiple team members.
Yes. Legalwise Seminars provides continuing professional development for lawyers and legal practitioners, with face-to-face, online and interactive on-demand learning options.
Yes. Online is one of the learning formats available through Legalwise, alongside face-to-face and on-demand professional development.
Yes. Legalwise offers interactive on-demand CPD recordings. Recordings are available for 30 days from the day they are received and can be viewed unlimited times during that period.
Yes. Legalwise Corporate CPD Packages and the Legalwise CPD Management Platform are designed to help firms, practice managers and compliance teams monitor CPD requirements across multiple team members.
Yes. Legalwise states that learning completed outside Legalwise can be added to the CPD Management Platform and tracked alongside Legalwise activity.
Compare the relevance of the provider's programmes to your practice, presenter expertise, current subject matter, learning formats and practical value. Law firms may also want to compare firm-wide CPD management and reporting options.
The right legal CPD provider will depend on your area of practice, professional development priorities and preferred way of learning. Legalwise gives practitioners access to professional development across multiple practice areas and face-to-face, online and on-demand formats.
Explore Legalwise professional development across legal practice areas and choose from face-to-face, online and interactive on-demand learning options.
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