CILEX Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
CILEX develops and delivers a range of CPD products for both members and non-members, to broaden your legal knowledge and skills and assure professional competence.
CPD training: your path to career success
In the dynamic legal sector, staying current with technical and practical skills is essential for success. Keeping your knowledge updated not only meets industry demands and regulatory requirements but it also drives significant business impact.
Continued Professional Development (CPD) empowers you to engage in lifelong learning. This enables you to stay ahead of the latest legal developments and insight, and to cultivate the essential skills that will set you apart from other legal professionals.
At CILEX, we have an extensive range of resources to bridge the gaps in your knowledge, ensuring you remain at the forefront of the legal industry and your specialist area.
What can CILEX CPD offer?
Make sure you stay relevant and up to date with key legal practice areas such as Employment law, Civil litigation, Conveyancing and Wills and probate. As well as developing your professionalism, enhancing your skills in areas such as networking, conduct challenging conversation, negotiate and be commercially aware.
Depending on what you want, you can purchase our practice area packages were we’ve conveniently bundled together all the modules you’ll need to meet your CPD requirement for your specialism. Or you can opt to buy modules as you go to fill any gaps you might have.
Explore the varied offering of CILEX CPD, designed to cater your diverse needs, all of which are created, and quality assured by experienced legal and educational practitioners, ensuring a valuable and enriching learning experience.
2024 Development Packages
Conveyancing Packages
Our Conveyancing CPD development packages will bring you up to date with developing areas of conveyancing practice.
Wills & Probate Packages
Our Wills & Probate CPD packages will keep you up to date on all areas of later life planning legal practice.
Civil Litigation Packages
Our Civil Litigation CPD packages will keep you up to date on legislation, cases, and procedures of civil dispute resolution.
Employment Law Packages
Our Employment Law CPD packages will keep you up to date with everything linked to employment law, including family-friendly rights and industrial action.
Professionalism Package
Our Professionalism package has 8 CPD modules enhancing your skills and knowledge in areas employers look for such as networking skills, negotiation, challenging conversations, and commercial awareness.
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If you are an employer and would like a bespoke CPD package developed for your staff, then please use the ‘contact us here’ button below
Other practice areas and modules
In addition to the 2024 Development Packages above, we have a variety of existing CPD modules and practice area packages that are still relevant and available for you, covering a range of topics:
- Business Law
- Criminal Law
- Family Law
- Law of Tort
- Contract Law
Legal Finance
We’ve partnered with the ILFM to bring you professionalism modules that are focused on dealing with financial considerations within the law firm.
- Technology in Legal Finance
- Financial Compliance in Law Firms (Part 1 and Part 2)
- Residual Balances
- Billing in Legal Practice
Ethics and Professional Responsibility Modules
As a CILEX member, or someone working within the legal sector, it’s essential you understand your professional and regulatory responsibility. We offer two purpose-built CPD courses tailored to enhance your understanding and compliance:
Ethics and Professional Responsibility – an introduction
This module introduces you to the regulatory structure, your CILEX Code of Conduct and essential responsibilities around compliance including money-laundering, data protection and client due diligence.
Ethics and Professional Responsibility in Context
This consists of three modules on Ethical Conduct, Regulation, and Professional Practice, exploring the interplay between ethical regulation, professional regulation and legal regulation.
Recording your CPD
As part of the process, you are required to record your CPD via myCILEX portal. You can learn more about your CPD obligations, which includes:
- How to record your CPD
- CPD guide
- Evaluation documents
- Non-compliance