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Welcome to Legal Education and Development
With 30 years of experience, LEAD understands the needs of a modern-day law firm. A wide range of top-quality seminars and courses give attorneys the knowledge and skills to manage and grow their firms successfully.
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Well trained staff are the foundation of every successful practice.
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Online Courses
LEAD's online courses through its e-LEADer platform save time and money by allowing professionals to gain valuable education in the time available to them so as to increase their skills and improve their working lives.
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Candidate legal practitioners
We provide law graduates with the opportunity to acquire and develop the practical legal skills to become effective practitioners.
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Postgraduate, distance-education (Corporate Law & Deceased Estate Practice)
The LSSA joined forces with the UNISA Centre for Business Law (CBL) to offer two accredited postgraduate, distance-education “Short Learning Programmes” to legal practitioners.
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PRACTICE MANAGEMENT TRAINING
Section 85(1)(b) of the LPA provides that every legal practitioner (an attorney/advocate taking direct instructions from the public) who is obliged to be in possession of a Fidelity Fund certificate and who, for the first time, practices as such, must complete a legal practice management course approved by the Legal Practice Council (LPC) Read More. -
CANDIDATE ATTORNEYS
Contracts for articles of clerkship must be registered with the relevant provincial law society. Read more here. Registration for the Admission Exam is also with your provincial law society. Read more here. -
SEMINARS AND WORKSHOPS
LEAD's seminars, courses and workshops are designed to update your skills in existing practice areas, to introduce new areas to you and assist you to practise effectively. View our training events for practitioners here.
SEMINARS/COURSES FOR LEGAL PRACTITIONERS
Bookkeeping for Legal Practitioners [course]
Cape Town: 07-09 February | Durban: 14-16 February | Bloemfontein: 14-16 February | East London: 14-16 February | Johannesburg: 14-16 February | Pretoria: 14-16 February... Read more.. download registration form
This course is primarily aimed at providing advocates with the necessary basic skills and to assist them to prepare for the legal practitioners’ (bookkeeping examination). This is for conversion of enrolment in terms of section 32 of the Legal Practice Act 28 of 2014 (LPA).
More Training events ...
Conveyancing 2019 (Update) [Seminar] - Pretoria, 14 January, Johannesburg, 18 January Read More
Civil Mediation [Course] - Pretoria: 24 - 26 & 28-29 January,
Durban: 24-26 & 28-29 January 2019 - Read more
Divorce Mediation [Course] - Cape Town: 14 - 18 January 2019 - Read more
Business Rescue Practice [Advanced Short Course] (distance, months) - Registration close 28 February 2019 Read More
Consumer Protection Act[Seminar] - Durban, 01 February 2019 | Cape Town, 07 February 2019 - Read more
Legal Costs [Course] - Midrand, 28 February 2019 - Read more
Write an opinion [Seminar] - Durban, 9 March | Bloemfontein, 15 March - Read more
Medical Law [Online Course] - 11 March - 10 May 2019 - Read more
Office Admin and Client Care [Online] 25 March - 3 May 2019 - Read more
Legal Bookkeeping [Online Course] 15 April to 28 June 2019 - Read more
Risk Management [Online Course] 17 June to 19 July 2019 - Read more
View our training events for practitioners here.
FOR SUPPORT STAFF
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ONLINE COURSES
Introduction to Medical Law for Legal Practioners
Learn basic principles of medical law and specifically on medical negligence. Increasingly, more Legal Practitioners are pursuing these types of claims without having received training in this sui generis type of delict - the principles of which differ from other delicts. 11 March to 10 May 2019 (Registration Closes: 1 March 2019) Read more here.
Legal Bookkeeping Online Course
This course is essential for all legal practitioners who intend to open their own practice and all legal support staff. It will also benefit practitioners who are currently practicing in their own firms. The course will impart a sound understanding of the basic business principles that will assist a practitioner to conduct a successful and profitable legal practice. 14 January to 28 February 2019 (Registration closes: 08 January 2019) Read more here.
ATTENDANCE
LEAD's ACT division provides a range of training courses aimed at upskilling legal practitioners and law firm support staff.
Legal Costs [Course] - 28 February 2019, Midrand (This course is aimed for Legal Practitioners and Support Staff... Gain the necassary skills in drawing and opposing bills of cost & ethical background ... Read more
Who is responsible for accounting records?
More often than not, legal practitioners outsource their accounting duties to qualified accountants or bookkeepers. Reasons for the outsourcing will, for obvious reasons, differ from one legal practitioner to another. Reasons range from an inability to prepare and/or balance books, to the need by the legal practitioner to focus on their area of expertise. In this article, the Practitioner Support Unit of the Attorneys Fidelity Fund seeks to clarify who is responsible for accounting records, and what should happen to the accounting records at any given point. Read more.
Our Compulsory Course for candidate legal practitioners : The objective of this course is to supplement the training provided by law firms in the knowledge, skills and attitudes required of a competent candidate attorney. The LEAD course is practice-orientated and an important facet of preparation for the profession’s Admission Examination. The course is in compliance with the Legal Practice Act. Read more.
Admission examination 2019: Refer to the Law Society website. www.LSSA.org.za
SCHOOL FOR LEGAL PRACTICE
2019 School for Legal Practice Brochure now availible!!
Our nine residential centres and a distance training option provide vocational training for candidate attorneys to acquire the practical skills to become effective practitioners.
School attendance centres: East London | Johannesburg | Polokwane | Port Elizabeth | Potchefstroom | Pretoria
1st Intake dates: Read more..
Day School: 04/01/2018 – 06/07/2018
Night School: 09/01/2018 – 01/06/2018
Closing date for applications: 15/10/2018 (Download application form)
LSSA-UNISA Distance Learning School:
Intake 1: 09/01/2019 - 08/07/2019 - Read more
Closing date for applications: 22 October 2018 (Download application form)
