A Diverse Range of Professional Development Opportunities
The Society’s CPD program is designed to cater for all levels of legal experience, and consists of a diverse program of standalone seminars, webinars as well as regular practice-area specific, intensive half to full-day conferences.

This program provides legal practitioners and members of the broader legal community with numerous professional development opportunities. Your opportunities include:

• Access a diverse range of seminars presented by experienced and well regarded local, interstate and international members of the legal profession.
• Hearing from experts external to the profession who have considerable offerings in the areas of professional skills, practice management and personal and workplace wellbeing.
• Engaging in interactive skill-building workshops and forums.
• Meeting senior members of the legal profession.
• Networking with members from other professions and communities.
• Further developing skills and interest in specific and/or new areas of law.
• Contributing to the professional development of others.
• Learn, reflect and refresh.

A Mix of Standalone Seminars and Conferences
A mix of lunchtime and late afternoon in-person and livestreamed seminars and webinars are held on days that best suit the legal profession – taking into consideration member feedback. In-person standalone and/or repeat seminars are held in the north and/or north-west of the state based on resources and demand. In-person seminars are generally held at the Law Society of Tasmania in Hobart or at Staffordshire House in Launceston. Venues in Devonport or Burnie may also be used.

In-person, livestreamed and recorded sessions: when a seminar is livestreamed this is considered to be delivered in real time (just as an in-person session) as compared to a recording which is viewed after the event.

Topics are selected to ensure coverage of all major areas of law including but not limited to civil and criminal litigation, property and commercial law, employment law and estate and succession law. Seminars also cover the five core competency / mandatory CPD areas: Equality and Wellbeing (EW), Ethics (E), Professional Skills (PS), Practice Management (PM, and Substantive Law (SL).

Opportunities to Engage In and Enhance Your Learnings
Your active participation in a CPD event makes the world of difference to the experience of others. By asking a question you may subsequently discover it was on the tip of someone else’s tongue, and your constructive comments will help your colleagues. Take the leap whether you are a new or seasoned lawyer.

Registering into CPD activities also helps support the Society and its not-for-profit CPD Program which feeds revenue back into this Program for your ongoing benefit.

Program volunteer presenters, facilitators, committees, content authors and financial sponsors assist the Society to continue to provide its quality CPD Program at affordable rates for you as a Society member.

Encouragement to Provide Feedback – Whether You are an Attendee or Presenter
Your constructive feedback and suggestions about the CPD Program are always welcome. Please take a moment to complete the Post-Event Surveys sent to you at the conclusion of a Society CPD activity. Your feedback informs us develop a CPD program to best suit your professional development requirements.

CPD Program Support
The CPD Program is coordinated by the Society’s CPD Team. Please email your enquiries and feedback to cpd@lst.org.au.