2013 was a particularly busy year for CPD Training (UK) Ltd. Among the highlights were;
- 9 fully attended Higher Rights of Audience training courses and assessments were held.
- Clients included large contingents from Cameron McKenna, Dentons and Cleary Gottlieb.
- We ran the first Higher Rights course for a Local Authority.
- The first patent agents who qualified as higher court advocates with IPREG in September were trained and assessed by us.
- Dame Elish Angiolini Q.C. and Fiona Donnelly were approved by the SRA to conduct Higher Rights Assessments.
- We delivered the PSC Advocacy and Communications course twice for newly-merged firm Bond Dickinson.
- Mayer Brown, S.J. Berwyn and Berwyn Leighton Paisner delegates attended two 3 day PSC Advocacy courses.
- Peter Lyons flew to Tasmania to teach the Legal Practice course in June.
- 6 residential weekends were held in Glasgow for the LLM in Advocacy.
- Peter Lyons taught for the Institute of Professional Legal Studies at Queens University.
- We were asked to deliver Negotiation Courses in Belfast, Dublin and Newcastle.
- Peter Lyons taught the NITA programme for the Law Society of Northern Ireland in the first week of September.
- A number of law firms completed CPD Training’s Cost Budgeting Course.
- Peter Lyons was guest speaker at Cameron McKenna’s in-house client seminar on Costs Management.
- We ran 4 days of intensive training in London for Covington and Burling.
- Elish Angiolini and Peter Lyons delivered an advanced advocacy programme for Eversheds in May.
- Peter Lyons delivered a 2 day advocacy course for senior planning lawyers.
- Cleary Gottlieb’s Italian office came to London for a two day course on cross-examining expert witnesses.
- We ran a continuing professional development course on Witness Preparation for O’Melveny & Myers.
- Skadden Arps hired us to train their young lawyers in presentation and advocacy skills.
- The first Daniel Simons Scholarship winner, Mark Haugh, was awarded Higher Rights of Audience by the SRA.