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What is Ethical Decision-Making? (Junior Lawyers)

Understanding and adhering to ethical principles is crucial to your professional success and the integrity of the legal profession. However, ethical dilemmas are not always easy to spot. When faced with a challenging situation, you may be unsure how to identify the ethical dilemma. Because of this uncertainty, it is important that you have a framework for how to make decisions ethically and put ethical principles into practice.  

Written by Ben Cattaneo, founder of the Decision-Making Studio, this online microlearning training module will explain the core principles of ethics and ethical decision-making, and provide you with a strategy for how to deal with ethical dilemmas.  

Through videos, realistic scenarios and knowledge checks, this module harnesses AI and avatars to keep you engaged and aid information retention.  

To further your learning on this topic, please see our other microlearning modules, which are also available as a bundle: 

Have a look at our full course on Professional Ethics to learn about the subject in more depth.

Learning outcomes

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

  • understand why ethical decision-making matters  
  • explain what ethical decision-making is and use the Stop-Reflect-Act framework to help you make ethical decisions  
How you will learn

Our microlearning offer has been designed to deliver learning that can be easily integrated into your daily schedule.   

The benefits of microlearning modules are that they’re short, flexible, and can be completed on-the-go or at the moment of need. Each module takes less than 10 minutes to complete, and these short bursts of focused learning help to ensure the knowledge sticks and can be applied effectively.    

The modules are multimodal, incorporating videos, scenarios, and knowledge check questions to keep you engaged and help you to better retain the information.  

The content itself has been written by our subject matter experts, but we have harnessed AI to enhance the learning experience and improve outcomes.   

No. of items Discount
11 – 19 15%
20 – 29 20%
30 – 39 30%
40 + 40%
£38.59 ex VAT
Type of training
CPD
Format
Microlearning
Level
Introduction
Who is this for?
Junior lawyers
Course length
10 minutes
SRA Competence
A1

The experts

Ben Cattaneo

Expert
Facilitator

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