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Essential skills for practice – Wellbeing for solicitors

Looking after your well-being as a solicitor is essential. Failure to do so can negatively impact both your personal and work life. This module introduces you to the concept of well-being, explains its importance for solicitors and provides you with hints and tips for maintaining good well-being, particularly under pressure.

Through easy-to-understand chapters, this course written by Emma Jones a senior lecturer in law at the University of Sheffield, who began her career as a solicitor in private practice includes realistic scenarios and knowledge checks that give you the opportunity to reflect upon your own well-being and how you can put in place healthy habits to help you not just survive, but also thrive, within legal practice.

This course, aimed at newly qualified and aspiring solicitors is part of our essential skills for practice programme. The programme will run throughout 2025 and is designed to give you all the skills, knowledge and attributes needed to flourish in your early career, irrespective of where or how you practice. Sign up here to stay informed about how the programme is developing.

Trainee, paralegal and student rate available, please contact us.

What this will cover

In this course, you will:

  • understand the meaning of wellbeing and the importance to solicitors
  • explore tools to help you manage your well-being in the workplace
  • learn how to tackle well-being challenges and develop a healthy work life balance
  • be provided with the tools to develop your personal well-being toolkit
Learning outcomes

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

  • define well-being and identify key aspects of well-being relevant to solicitors.
  • analyse the importance of well-being within legal practice.
  • identify ways to maintain good levels of well-being, particularly under pressure.
  • analyse and evaluate well-being strategies to apply in practice.
How you will learn

This online course consists of the following elements:

  • Easy to understand chapters
  • Realistic scenarios
  • Knowledge checks to aid information retention
  • MCQs

Our courses conform to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1. However, some members may require an alternative version for accessibility purposes. This is available upon request via our contact us form.

Assessment

An end-of-course assessment consisting on 10 questions. In order to pass the assessment, you must achieve a pass mark of 70%.

Length 

The bitesize course is 30 minutes.

No. of items Discount
11 – 19 15%
20 – 29 20%
30 – 39 25%
40 + 30%
£36.75 ex VAT
Type of training
CPD
Format
Bitesize
Level
Introduction
Who is this for?
Junior lawyers
Paralegals
Students / Trainees
Course length
30 minutes
Assessment type
MCQs (Multiple Choice Questions).
SRA Competence
C1
C2
C3

The experts

Emma Jones

Expert
Facilitator

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