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25 March 2011 / Roger Smith
Issue: 7458 / Categories: Opinion
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Having a problem accumulating your continuing professional development time? Give thanks to irreverent website Roll on Friday for picking up the story of CPDAdventures...

Having a problem accumulating your continuing professional development time? Give thanks to irreverent website Roll on Friday for picking up the story of CPDAdventures. For a mere £1800, CPDAdventures will give you a long weekend in Zell Am See, Austria and 16 hours continuing professional development. This Sunday, 27 March, the first day of the course, seems particularly arduous. It begins with breakfast and a lecture by the course leader (“CPD theory session”); two ski lessons (“CPD practical sessions”) and an extra “CPD theory session followed by dinner”. The organisers claim full accreditation with the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) of a course “designed to combine seminars with a lot of fun”. The subject matter is “personal motivation and performance”.

CPDAdventures was incorporated last year and is yet to file accounts. It is the brainchild of divorce solicitor, Mark Betteridge with whose firm it shares offices in Hertford. CPDAdventures does not actually show up

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Birketts—four appointments

Birketts—four appointments

Firm expands partnership with four lateral hires across key practice areas

Harper James—Lottie Hugo

Harper James—Lottie Hugo

Commercial law firm announces appointment of corporate partner

Carey Olsen—Patrick Ormond

Carey Olsen—Patrick Ormond

Partner joins corporate and finance practice in British Virgin Islands

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