This timely book explains how to plan, manage and evaluate the effectiveness of your firm's training programme. Designed to help your firm meet the continuing competence requirements, it provides a suite of tools to help with every aspect of the training process. It includes policies and tools for recording training and development plans in key areas such as: strategic planning trainees and the period of recognised training designing training delivering training organising training continuing competence. Expert commentary is included on how to use each of the tools, and the documents are provided on the book's accompanying CD-ROM, enabling them to be customised as needed.

The law is a 'knowledge' business. The success of any law firm depends on the expertise and skills of the people who work in it. The Legal Training Handbook is a guide for anyone who has responsibility for any level of training in a firm or an in-house legal department. This concise handbook includes: what would-be employers can expect their prospective trainees to have been taught what is expected of 'supervisors' of trainees the standards trainees must achieve what training obligations qualified solicitors have to satisfy. A new addition to the Law Society's range of practical handbooks, this guide is fully up-to-date covering: the recent recommendations of the Legal Education and Training Review (LETR) the recommendations' initial implementation by the frontline regulators including the SRA the revised SRA Training Regulations and the new Code. This timely and user-friendly publication discusses why your firm should invest in training and how to measure the results. It analyses both the commercial and the regulatory aspects of training. Legal Education and Training Handbook is thorough and primarily suitable for medium to large size law firms in England and Wales.It would also be of interest to other legal professionals, such as barristers, licensed conveyancers and IP practitioners.