On-Demand CPD Courses
Learn at your own pace, anytime, from anywhere.
Our on-demand CPD courses are designed for legal professionals navigating a rapidly evolving profession. Delivered by experts from the Centre for the Future of the Legal Profession at UNSW, our programs offer practical insights and strategic guidance across core areas including legal leadership, ethics in innovation, ESG obligations, legal technology, and AI in practice.
Whether you're deepening your understanding of generative AI, exploring leadership pathways in law, or building resilience in a complex regulatory environment, our self-paced courses allow you to learn when and where it suits you.
Courses
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Lawyer wellbeing toolkit: navigating a shifting landscape
CPD units: 1
Knowledge area: Professional Skills
Facilitators: Dr Felicity Bell (Chairperson), Senior Lecturer and Deputy Director of the Centre for the Future of the Legal Profession at UNSW Law and Justice
Brandy Tsang, Director and Managing Legal Counsel at Boston Consulting Group
Associate Professor Susanne Schweizer, School of Psychology, UNSW
David Field, Acting Chair of Minds Count and Chief Legal Counsel, Canon Oceania
Recorded: 17 September 2025
The legal profession has long grappled with the complex issue of wellbeing. While the conversation has grown, the question remains: are we truly moving the needle?
Centre for the Future of the Legal Profession brings together a diverse panel of legal academics, practitioners, and psychology experts to provide a comprehensive look at the state of lawyer wellbeing today.
In this interactive online module, we'll explore the enduring tension between individual resilience and the structural pressures within the profession, and debate whether recent efforts are driving real change. Our discussion will also address the generational shift in the legal workforce, examining how millennials and Gen Z are reshaping expectations for work-life integration and pushing firms to evolve. We will conclude with a practical toolkit offering insights and strategies for both individuals seeking to improve their own wellbeing and organisations striving to cultivate a healthier, more sustainable culture for all.Trigger warning
This webinar may include discussion of sensitive or potentially distressing topics. We encourage you to take care of your wellbeing while participating. Please feel free to step away from the session at any time if you need to. -
Lawfluencers: the ethics of digital marketing for lawyers
CPD units: 1
Knowledge area: Ethics and professional responsibility
Facilitator: Tony Song, Adjunct Fellow, Centre for the Future of the Legal Profession
Recorded: 31 March 2025
From TikTok memes to YouTube streams, live audience Q&As to brand collaborations, today lawyers from all around the world are broadcasting themselves, their firms, and their professional lives on social media platforms. These lawyer-influencers, or so called ‘lawfluencers’ share legal information, analysis, advice, and/or provide entertainment to global audiences, with the most prolific attracting millions of views.
In this interactive module, using various case studies, Tony Song, Adjunct Fellow, Centre for the Future of the Legal Profession, will explore and discuss the impacts this phenomenon is having on the profession, reviving enduring debates around tradition vs. modernity; ethics vs. business; accessibility vs. professionalism. While these tensions are not new, the platforms, context and scale in which they are unfolding are. In this brave new world, lawyers must learn to balance new ethical risks and responsible lawfluencing, with the unique opportunities to democratise legal knowledge and redefine public engagement with the law.
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Keeping it professional: avoiding misconduct in a changing world
CPD units: 1
Knowledge area: Ethics and professional responsibility
Facilitator: Brenda Tronson, Barrister & Senior Lecturer at UNSW
Would the everyday conduct of the lawyers around you withstand scrutiny in a disciplinary complaint?
Examples from around the world of lawyers who have misused generative AI has sparked a discussion about how we fulfil our fundamental duties while keeping up to date with technological and other change.
Join Brenda Tronson, a barrister specialising in professional conduct law and a senior lecturer at UNSW, for an update on some recent cases which inform this discussion, on topics including:
- Ethical (and unethical) use of generative AI
- Maintaining courtesy in modern communications
- Sexual harassment as a professional conduct issue
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Digital-savvy lawyering - harnessing technology for practice excellence
CPD units: 1
Knowledge area: Practice management and business skills
Facilitator: Vicki McNamara, Senior Research Associate, Centre for the Future of the Legal Profession
Recorded: 14 March 2025
Discover why staying relevant and competitive in the evolving Australian legal market requires smart technology use and building your digital literacy. In this interactive module, Vicki McNamara, Senior Research Associate, Centre for the Future of the Legal Profession, provides an overview of essential tools for legal practice, from business productivity software to generative AI. Learn from case studies and hear practical tips for integrating technology, managing your digital transition and preparing for AI’s impact on legal services.
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Why cultural competence matters and how to develop the skill to grow your legal practice
CPD units: 1
Knowledge area: Professional skills
Facilitator: Professor Richard Wu, Associate Professor, The University of Hong Kong
Recorded: 14 March 2025
Do your clients from Australia and overseas have a similar cultural background to yours? Are you mindful of how you communicate with clients from different cultural backgrounds in your legal practice? If not, you may be missing significant opportunities to grow your legal practice.
In this interactive module, Professor Richard Wu an Asian expert on cultural competence and a former large law firm partner in Hong Kong, will explain the growing importance of cultural competence as an essential soft skill for all lawyers around the world, including those in Australia. He will also give practical examples and suggestions to enable lawyers in New South Wales to develop their cultural competence for their local and cross-border legal practice and serve their local and overseas clients with respect and dignity.
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Better than a bot - the need for lawyerly judgement
CPD units: 1
Knowledge area: Ethics and professional responsibility
Facilitator: Professor Michael Legg, Director, Centre for the Future of the Legal Profession (UNSW)
Recorded: 14 March 2025
In the twenty-first century, AI will change the practice of law. Lawyers will need the skills to be able to deploy AI where it can save cost and aid in the delivery of legal services. However, the most sought after and valuable skills will be those that draw on the lawyer’s humanity and ethics, and which AI cannot provide.
This interactive module, presented by Professor Michael Legg, Director, Centre for the Future of the Legal Profession (UNSW), identifies professional or lawyerly judgement as the fundamental lawyering skill which is not replaced by AI and must be developed to attract and retain clients. Development of judgement is a lifelong process and must be taught (formally and informally) throughout the life of the professional. This module explains lawyerly judgement and how it may be developed through the use of self-reflection.