As a Family Section member you will get the following membership benefits:
- Four FREE CPD accredited webinars worth £140. Topics for 2013*:
- Drafting Position Statements - 20 March 2013
- Instructing Experts in the Family Court - 3 July 2013
- Forced Marriage - date TBC
- Financial Provisions - date TBC
- Access to all 2012 Advocacy Section webinars via the CPD Centre
*Webinar topics and dates can be subject to change
- Family Update - a quarterly email providing all the latest news and exclusive commentary and features on family and children law
- Networking opportunities
- New features to be added to the Family Section web site during 2013, delivering an online community that will
- include an ‘ask the expert' forum, member directory and online networking opportunities.
- Discounted training on advocacy skills and practice from the Law Society's Advocacy Section.
Saving you money
Benefits also include discounts across other Law Society products and services including:
- 20 per cent off related Law Society Publishing titles - see back page for more details and some of the titles available
- Discounts on related Law Society events including the Section's Annual Family Law Conference
- Save the date, 27 June 2013 at The Law Society, London
- 20 per cent off related Law Society webinars.
Family advocacy training
Find out what family advocacy really entails. Our Family Advocacy Training offers a way to further your skills and career and is discounted for members of the Family Section. Family Advocacy Training is a foundation course that takes you from the basics to presenting a case and hearing. A case study exercise at the end of the course helps you to put your learning into practice.
Expert tutors will be on hand to give you valuable and constructive feedback. Family Advocacy Training is ideal for both newly qualified solicitors and experienced solicitors who are new to undertaking advocacy. This course is accredited for 3.5 hours CPD. Dates for 2013 are coming soon.
For further information email zara.douglas@lawsociety.org.uk