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From good to great: The CPD Digital Subscription that actually helps you grow

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24 Feb 2025
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From good to great: The CPD Digital Subscription that actually helps you grow

Most lawyers see CPD as a box to tick. The best lawyers see it as an opportunity.

If you’re only doing CPD to stay compliant, you’re missing out. The real power of professional development is about building the skills, confidence, and expertise that make you stand out (along with staying up-to-date of course).

Imagine CPD that helps you negotiate better deals, lead with confidence, or work smarter with legal tech.

That’s the difference with the CPD Digital Subscription. Our goal is help you grow into the lawyer you want to be – with courses covering essential skills that go beyond the black-letter law.

 

Build the Skills That Set You Apart

In a competitive industry, clients assume (for the most part) you have the legal skillset. But what can set you apart in the industry is nurturing your skills in leadership, strategy, communication, and business acumen—giving yourself an edge over your peers.

With our CPD Digital Subscription, you can access courses that improve your expertise across multiple disciplines, equipping you with the skills to compliment your legal knowledge.

1. Soft Skills: The art of connection

Great lawyers understand both the law and the people they serve and work with. Your ability to communicate, influence, and build relationships can be the difference between a good lawyer and a truly exceptional one.

These courses in the Digital Subscription aim to help you master the art of persuasion, develop and refine your emotional intelligence and improve communication:

  • Strategic networking
  • The supervision relationship and how to be the best delegate
  • Giving presentations – a one hour guide
  • Mindfulness for managing triggers
  • Communicating effectively with clients
  • Cultural competence, communication and negotiation

2. Professional Skills: Sharpen your skillset

Technical legal knowledge is just the starting point. To succeed, you need to be precise, efficient, and always one step ahead.

These courses aim to improve your legal writing, stay ethical and compliant, and hone your research skills.

  • How to prepare effective filenotes
  • Practical tips for drafting commercial agreements
  • Working on the go – ethical challenges and dilemmas
  • Trauma informed practice
  • Matter management – risk management in practice
  • Cybersecurity 101 for lawyers

3. Business Skills: Work smarter, not harder

Law is both a profession and a business. Whether you work in a firm or run your own practice, understanding how to operate efficiently and profitably is key.

These courses look at mastering time management, relationship management, marketing and financial management. All essential to running and maintaining a successful practice. Effective client management

  • Build your profile and practice – marketing foundations for lawyer
  • Small and large firms – business planning, marketing and client development
  • Law practice trust accounts – fundamentals and pitfalls
  • Big profits, empty pockets
  • How to start a law firm from scratch

4. Career Skills: Take Control of Your Future

Your career won’t grow on its own. The most successful lawyers actively invest in their development—seeking out opportunities to lead, specialise, and stand out.

These courses put you in the driver seat, where your career outcomes are the focal point.

  • Pay negotiation
  • Criticism and conflict: overcoming loss of confidence
  • How to use EQ to build personal resilience
  • The delegation formula: reclaiming your time
  • Managing performance anxiety: strategies to deliver an outstanding presentation
  • Steve Covey’s quadrant for lawyers

 

Smarter CPD, Stronger Career

With the CPD Digital Subscription, you get access to 120+  high-quality, practical courses designed for career advancing impact. Learn what you need, when you need it—without the stress of last-minute CPD scrambling.

The CPD Subscription is just $499 per year with pricing options available for your organisation.

  • 5 user pack – Pay $1,399/year with code FLEX5at checkout
  • 10 user pack – Pay $1,799/year with code FLEX10at checkout
  • For teams of 11+ – Contact us for pricing options

Are you ready to level up?

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