Legal Technology Certification Course
144 Morrison Street
Edinburgh
EH3 8EX
You'll have the option to attend this CPD training in person
Join this CPD training online at the specified time
From Curious to Confident: Your Legal Tech Journey Begins
Legal tech isn’t just for specialists—it’s for every lawyer who wants to work smarter, connect better with clients, and lead with innovation. Whether you’re looking to boost efficiency, explore new ways of thinking, or simply feel more confident using modern tools, this course is your launchpad. With our new hybrid format and hands-on approach, you'll gain the skills—and the mindset—to use tech to help you as a lawyer every day.
Learn It. Use It. Lead with It.
Whether you're tech-curious or tech-cautious, this course meets you where you are. No jargon. No assumptions. Just a clear, practical roadmap to becoming a more effective, tech-enabled lawyer.
You’ll walk away with:
- Practical tools you can implement immediately—regardless of your firm’s size or budget
- Skills to save time, boost productivity, and exceed client expectations
- The confidence to lead innovation in your practice area
Don't Get Left Behind - Get Certified
Spaces are limited to ensure a highly interactive, tailored experience. If you’re ready to future-proof your career, now is the time.
Course Snapshot
Total: 20+ hours | Fully CPD-compliant | Certification valid for 3 years
- Two concise online modules (4 hours CPD)
- One full-day, in-person workshop with industry experts (6 hours CPD)
- A practical, real-world assignment (4 hours CPD)
- Guided private study (4+ hours)
A Hybrid Experience Built for Busy Lawyers
Flexible online sessions you can complete on your own schedule
A powerful in-person workshop day, packed with hands-on activities and real-world applications
From day one, this course is about action—not theory.
You’ll build an AI agent, sharpen your skills with legal tech tools, and even create your own legal tech team blueprint to take back to your firm. You’ll explore game-changing concepts like legal design thinking and discover smarter ways to communicate with clients using tech.
New Format. New Price. Bigger Impact.
We’ve introduced accessible pricing to make sure no lawyer gets left behind—and to support our mission of making Scottish lawyers among the most tech-fluent in the world.
Course dates
| Date | Location | Webinar |
|---|---|---|
Thursday 18 September |
Online |
How legal tech has evolved and where we are now. What can it do for you and your firm? How to use it effectively. |
Thursday 25 September |
Atria One, Edinburgh |
Workshop led, interactive day led by industry experts where we experiment, design and build tech that you can use every day. |
Thursday 2 October |
Online | Taking tech learnings forward and looking at what lies ahead in a fast changing legal world. |
Course components
Week 1: What tech is around you? What can it do for you and your firm? The changing role of technology in your legal career.
This online primer session will cover:
- An introduction to the course and overview of the UK legal tech scene
- What is legal technology? Definition and opportunities.
- Why does the course exist?
- How did we get to this point? The timeline of tech development in law firms
- How tech is used in different types and sizes of firms
- Your new tech team - how all firms can get tech support
Week 2: Interactive in-person tech workshop.
We all learn more by doing - and it can even be fun! We`ve created a day of interactive workshops where you will actually design and build tech tools, learn practical skills to build teams, stay cyber-secure and more. Remember to bring your laptop!
Week 3: What have we learned and what lies ahead?
- What really is the role of tech? Why it is key to outcomes that may not seem tech related
- Looking to the future …
- Staying up to date and in touch - resources and our growing community
Course Assignment
Details of the final assignment will be released during the course. Successful completion of the course results in certification as a Tech-Informed Lawyer awarded with use of our marque for your website, social channels and e-signature.
What have people said about training with Ally Thomson?
The Legal Technology Certification Course, with Ally Thomson as the trainer, provided me with a greater awareness of the trends and patterns found in the legal-technology sector. The different course components allowed me to identify how technology can be applied more practically, which has fundamentally helped facilitate my growth as a tech-informed trainee solicitor. As a result of the course, I am now better positioned to navigate technology related changes in the legal sector – and how this should be approached in relation to commercial awareness more generally. In short, the course and Ally provided me with the right set of skills to understand the ways in which legal professionals (of varying experiences) will need to adapt in the coming years to new technologies in the workplace!
Fantastic course, with a truly engaging facilitator. Highly recommend to anyone with a desire to improve their understanding of legal tech and better harness their existing capabilities.
The course was a great opportunity to learn about current technological developments and products designed specially for the legal market. However, being able to discuss the opportunities (and struggles!) to promote the effective use of legal technology in our own area of practice, with like minded solicitors from varying legal backgrounds was incredibly useful.
The course content was highly engaging. Ally’s expertise in technology and online projects since 2005 was evident throughout. The material was presented in manageable chunks, allowing me to learn at my own pace. Ally’s practical insights into legal technology were invaluable. From understanding emerging trends to navigating the digital landscape, the course provided real-world applications that I can immediately implement in my practice. In summary, the Legal Technology Certification Course with Ally Thomson is a must for any lawyer looking to stay ahead in the ever-evolving legal tech landscape. Kudos to Ally and the Law Society of Scotland for offering such a valuable learning opportunity!
A really enjoyable and insightful course. Particular highlights were Laura Jeffords Greenberg from Wordsmith, John Craske from CMS and Jane McCance from Thorntons. Great range of speakers and good to see them using their platforms in demos. Ally was good at facilitating the chat and keeping things moving as ever
I've really enjoyed the course. It's been really helpful to take a step back and look at how we can improve efficiencies to help maximise the opportunities of so much tech change. Some excellent speakers and all very well co-ordinated by Ally who kept us engaged throughout. Its been a varied course and we've explored some areas such as AI developments in real depth. I feel far less daunted and much better informed on how best to go about embracing legal tech changes within both my own personal development and my firms. Overall a very worthwhile course.
The course was really informative and I came away with lots of practical tips which I shall be sharing with my team and putting into practice. It was also really useful to also learn about what other legal practices are doing in terms of tech and learning about their challenges but also the solutions that they'd found. I look forward to putting what I've learned into practice and feel more confident in trying it the technologies we discussed and explored during the course.
Ally has been an insightful & engaging communicator bringing to life in an effective and really practical way the challenges faced in navigating Legal Tech. And then he shows or gives you waypoints as to where the solutions might lie. The participants were from a diverse range of practice sizes and sectors and I think all will have gone away learning something and invigorated about the real wins for our clients, our staff and firm as a whole that can be gained from embracing Legal Tech in how we do our business.
A highly engaging, informative and useful course to help guide you through the ever changing tech jungle, highly recommended!
Having watched Ally on Hey Legal I knew the course would be interesting given his involvement in the sector and the tech and it was something out of the normal day job that was of interest to me - I have learned a lot of information about what is out there and met some new colleagues who share the same interest in adopting Legal Tech. Really enjoyed the course and the knowledge sharing will continue on.
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