Law CPD
The legal landscape is evolving at unprecedented speed. From regulatory reform and technological disruption to new client expectations and increasingly complex commercial environments, today’s organisations need people who can work confidently with legal concepts, whether they are qualified legal professionals or business leaders navigating legal issues in their roles.
Our Law portfolio brings together practical insight, up‑to‑date legal knowledge and essential professional skills to support two key audiences:
1. Legal professionals, trainees and apprentices building the technical capability, skills and judgement required for effective practice
2. Business professionals, managers and HR or people teams who regularly encounter legal issues and need clarity and confidence without formal legal training
Across our portfolio, learners gain both the deep legal expertise and the wider professional skills needed to excel in today’s legal and commercial environments.
Whether you are progressing through a legal career or working in a business or people‑focused role, our courses provide the knowledge, insight and practical application needed to make informed decisions, manage risk and deliver high‑quality outcomes.
Law CPD categories
Tailored CPD courses that fit your business needs
You know what skills your business needs – and we know how to help you develop them. We work with you to identify knowledge and skills gaps and create engaging training programmes, tailored to your specific requirements, timescales and budget. Contact our Training Solutions Team for more information.
Legal Essentials for non-lawyers
Legal Essentials for non-lawyers equips managers, HR and business teams to work confidently with legal obligations. Our courses demystify the law, cut jargon, and build practical skills to manage risk, support decisions, communicate with legal teams and apply sound legal thinking in everyday workplace situations.
Commercial Awareness and Legal Sector Insight
Commercial Awareness & Legal Sector Insight helps you understand how the legal sector operates within a commercial, financial and regulatory landscape. These courses build the commercial mindset needed to recognise industry drivers, respond to regulatory and tech change, align legal work with organisational goals and contribute to strategic success.
Legal Skills Development
Legal Skills Development courses build the practical capabilities behind high‑quality legal work, from clear legal writing and research to evidence gathering, drafting, advocacy and negotiation. These courses help professionals at all stages sharpen precision, structure, communication and strategic thinking in daily legal tasks.
Dispute Resolution
Our Dispute Resolution category covers civil, criminal and family litigation, combining procedural knowledge with practical tactics. Courses span CPR, ADR/mediation, personal injury, interim applications, commercial litigation strategy and judicial review, helping practitioners progress cases effectively and with confidence.
Real Estate
Real Estate courses provide a strong grounding in commercial and residential property practice. Covering conveyancing, leases, leasehold structures, transactions, construction and security over property, this category supports practitioners at all levels and builds confidence in the legal and commercial aspects of real estate work.
Corporate Services
Corporate Services courses support lawyers advising on company law, governance and transactions. Covering directors' duties, shareholder arrangements, corporate finance, restructurings and private company deals, this category builds technical confidence and commercial judgment across the corporate lifecycle.
Employment
Employment courses support practitioners advising employers and employees across the employment relationship. Covering contracts, workplace rights, discrimination, disciplinaries, redundancy and triunal practice, this category builds practical, up-to-date expertise for managing risk and resolving workplace disputes.
Family
Family courses support practitioners working on relationship breakdown and family arranghements. Covering divorce, financial remedies, children matters and cohabitation, this category builds confident, sensitive and effective practice grounded in procedure, advocacy and client care.
Criminal Practice
Criminal Practice courses build confidence in criminal law and procedure at every stage of a case. Covering core principles, police powers, bail, advocacy, trial preparation, sentencing and mitigation, this supports effective representation and clear tactical judgment at every stage of a criminal case.
Private Client
Private Client & Personal Services courses support practitioners working with individuals and families on estate and succession planning. Covering wills, trusts, probate, estate administration and Court of Protection work, this category builds technical confidence alongside the judgmenbt and sensitivity required in private client practice.
Professional ethics, regulation and compliance
Professional ethics, regulation and compliance underpin legal practice. These courses explore duties, professional responsibilities, regulatory expectations and emerging risks, including digital and data‑driven challenges, helping you strengthen the standards that protect clients, organisations and the profession.
Workplace Success Skills
BPP's global research highlights a core set of 9 transferable skills which are essential for success in the modern workplace. These workplace success skills represent the core human capabilities that drive career progression and personal effectiveness.
Unlike technical or job-specific abilities, these transferable competencies are relevant at all levels and across diverse industries.
BPP's CPD training courses will...
Continuously improve employee competency and efficiency
Retain talent by demonstrating your investment in their development
Tailor courses to fit your specific requirements, including in-house training
Develop leaders with established skill sets across multiple disciplines including leadership, finance, data and more
Attract talent by offering tangible learning and development opportunities
Encourage a culture of lifelong learning and skills development
Fulfil regulatory requirements for evidenced CPD
Keep their technical skills and regulatory qualifications up to date
Fill important knowledge gaps and build new, effective skills
Improve their ability to deal with ever-evolving issues confidently and efficiently
Stay informed on current topics and industry changes
Keep their professional approach up to date with changes in the market
“BPP has become a valued training and development resource to us. It creates professional training programmes according to our specifications and offers advice when needed. BPP also makes it easy for us to deploy the same training in different regions because it is culturally aware and sensitive to the differences required by each region round the globe.”
Global credit card company
Delivered by industry leading experts
Vicky Walden - Head of Law Programmes
After eight years as an employment lawyer at DAC Beachcroft where she advised public and private clients on complex legal matters, Vicky transitioned into legal training in 2014. Vicky focuses on the training and development of trainees, professionals and future leaders, creating high-impact training initiatives for all career stages.
Mike Hackett - Professional Law Trainer
Mike has been a qualified lawyer for over 40 years, training at Kingsley Napley and practicing as a higher rights qualified civil litigator. Mike has taught advocacy skills to lawyers at every level, including a number of judges and senior barristers. He has a wide range of experience developing courses in higher rights advocacy, amongst other legal knowledge areas and skills.
Michelle Mayoh - BTT Programme Manager
Michelle spent 15 years practicing on the Northern circuit, specialising in commercial dispute resolution with an emphasis on contractual disputes, banking litigation and disputes regarding the sale and supply of goods and services. She also has extensive experience in insolvency, complex company law disputes and sports law contractual disputes. Since 2023, Michelle has been part of BPP's Professional Development team, managing the Bar Transfer Test and the new Bar Training Resit Programme.
Shahnaz Saleem - Law and Insolvency Tutor
Shahnaz is a qualified solicitor and experienced trainer with over 24 years' experience in the insolvency and business law sectors. She spent 11 years at international law firm DLA Piper, specialising in insolvency law and working on high-profile administrations and liquidations. Since 2023, Shahnaz has worked in BPP's Professional Development team, combining deep technical knowledge with real-world examples to make complex insolvency concepts understandable and relevant.Trusted by leading organisations
More CPD Courses delivered by BPP
BPP offers over 100 legal CPD courses, with everything from technical updates to knowledge refreshers, covering all aspects of law – including both solicitor CPD courses and barrister CPD courses. Spanning everything from commercial and family law to management and leadership, we have the training to equip your teams with the in-depth skills they need to thrive in their chosen field and manage the ever-changing legal landscape.
