Continuing Professional Development

Our flagship conferences, with highly relevant and thoughtprovoking content, continue to go from strength to strength, attracting excellent speakers and large audiences, at Cradle to Grave™ in Auckland and Christchurch, and at our Property Law Half-Day and SCA (NZ) Half-Day conferences.

We continued to focus on workshops and travelled around the country delivering the AML/CFT and Leading Your Career workshops in Hamilton, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin as well as Auckland.

We offered practitioners further opportunities to develop important skills with our Personal Effectiveness workshops, the fundamentals of effective communication in our Art of Communication workshops, as well as assisting practitioners to improve the efficiency and profitability of their practices with the Your Legal Business series. We launched a new CPD series – the Civil Litigation Series, to run along with our other popular series, the Commercial Law Series.

This year we were pleased to welcome a number of international speakers, including Professor Mansfield Mela, Psychiatry Clinical Professor and Professor Glen Luther of the College of Law both at University of Saskatchewan and renowned experts on the psycho-legal aspects of forensic mental health, with specific expertise in the area of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD). Our SCA (NZ) Half-Day Conference featured two speakers from Australia –Julie McLean, a Consultant with Body Corporate Consulting and Tim Graham, Partner, HWL Ebsworth Lawyers.

We have, again, witnessed the growth in our livestream audiences, as more practitioners opt to participate in ADLS CPD from the comfort of their offices. Our Continuing Professional Development Plan and Record service is a popular and convenient way to record and track CPD hours, as is our On Demand CPD, particularly towards the end of the CPD year, where those needing the odd hour or two are sure to find something interesting and relevant to meet their CPD obligations.