CPD Points
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Event Access & Pricing Options
The event is designed to fulfil your Continuing Professional Development (CPD) requirements.
A total of 20 CPD points are needed to meet these requirements.
The event offers flexibility in how you earn your points:
- 15 of these points can be acquired through virtual sessions.
- The remaining 5 points must be earned through in-person attendance, providing an opportunity for networking.
Your ticket gives you comprehensive access: a single ticket purchase grants you access to all the online content available over the 3-day event.
You have the freedom to choose your preferred day for in-person attendance, making it easier to fit the event into your schedule.
To secure the 5 points allocated for in-person participation, you are required to attend the event for at least one day. This ensures that you benefit from the interactive sessions and direct engagement with experts in the field.
The cost varies depending on your participation method and affiliation:
- Online participation costs €495 per lawyer and covers 20 hours, 15 of which are CPD accredited.
- In-person attendance is €695 for members of the Law Society of Ireland and the Irish Bar.
- Foreign lawyers are charged €1,000 for the full event or €500 per day.
CPD Requirements 2023
The Law Society has confirmed the CPD requirements for 2023 as follows.
- In 2023, operations will be guided by the 2017 Solicitors (Continuing Professional Development) Regulations, which require a minimum of 20 hours of CPD. This includes at least 3 hours focused on management and professional development skills and a minimum of 2 hours on regulatory issues. For those serving as a sole practitioner, compliance partner, and/or anti-money laundering compliance partner, the regulatory requirement is extended to 3 hours, including 2 hours on accounting and anti-money laundering compliance. |
- Anyone who can demonstrate to the CPD Scheme Unit that by the date of the update (25 April 2023) on which the CPD Regime for 2023 was announced, they had completed 25 hours on the basis of the expected regime for 2023, shall be permitted to carry forward five hours toward their 2024 CPD requirement. |
- All dispensations (including newly admitted, senior practitioners, maternity leave and carers leave) are to continue as in preceding years.
- Solicitor who is NOT a sole practitioner or a compliance partner and/or an anti-money laundering compliance partner: the CPD requirement for the 2023 cycle is 20 hours, to include a minimum of 3 hours management and professional development skills and a minimum of 2 hours regulatory matters. |
- Solicitor who IS a sole practitioner or a compliance partner and/or an anti-money laundering compliance partner: the CPD requirement for the 2023 cycle is 20 hours, to include a minimum of 3 hours management and professional development skills and a minimum of 3 hours regulatory matters, of which at least 2 hours shall be accounting and anti-money laundering compliance. |
- There is a maximum limit of 7 hours CPD which may be completed within a single day. Solicitors should also note a maximum of 75% of a solicitor’s minimum CPD requirement (modified or otherwise) may be claimed for time spent in relevant eLearning and a maximum of 50% of a solicitor’s minimum CPD requirement (modified or otherwise) may be claimed for time spent writing relevant material that is published in any one CPD cycle.