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15 J. Prof. Legal Educ. 169 (1997)
The Need for a Conceptual Framework for Continuing Professional Development for Lawyers

handle is hein.journals/proleged15 and id is 171 raw text is: Journal of Professional Legal Education Vol. 15 No. 2 169 THE NEED FOR A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK FOR CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR LAWYERS Christopher Roper There is a need, and an opportunity, to develop a 'conceptual framework'for continuing professional development (CPD). Such a framework would assist better practice in CPD by making CPD more theory-based and thus more professional and less intuitive. An essential first step is a critical and analytical examination of the literature on CPD, both for lawyers and other professionals, and in a number of areas related to CPD. The literature would be both reviewed and 'mapped'. The review should not simply be descriptive. Rather it should also construct a framework integrating the literature into a structure which identifies linkages, hierarchies and groupings. This framework could provide the common language for further work in the area of CPD for lawyers. The construction of the framework is likely to reveal areas where empirical research programs are needed. The framework might be a basis for the development of standards by which CPD could be judged. CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT: A DEFINITION Continuing professional development can mean two things: all of the learning activities, formal, non-formal and informal', in which a lawyer engages as part of his/her work2, and/or a component of a continuing strategy of a legal professional body to 'develop' the profession, usually through learning activities, thus enabling it to survive, maintain its status and develop. A conceptual framework can be constructed for either, or both, of these meanings. A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK: A DEFINITION A framework is a structure composed of parts framed together (Shorter Oxford English Dictionary). Whilst the parts have an existence in their own right, when brought together in a structured way, they become a framework which has its own

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