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CPD Requirements for LSA

Legal professionals in Canada require Continuing Professional Development to maintain their professional designation. Browse courses that meet your requirements, even find your Ethics/EDI hours, or choose one of our course packages, specially curated to contain all the hours and credits you need, in one place. The courses on LearnFormula may be counted towards professionally relevant, verifiable learning activities. It is the student's responsibility to validate whether an activity is an eligible educational activity for their professional development requirements based on their own learning needs.

Requirements Overview

Last updatedAug 21, 2026
scheduleCPD Requirement
No minimum requirement
calendar_clockLicense Renewal Period
September 30
cycleRequirements Cycle
Annual

Simplifying Regulations for 2026

Lawyers are required to select at least two competencies from any of the domains contained within the Professional Development Profile (Profile). There are 29 competencies in the Profile that are broadly applicable to all lawyers. As CPD plans are personal to each lawyer, their practice and their learning goals, lawyers may tailor their chosen competencies to their practice through the learning activities they select and add other competencies that are not included in the Profile.

Lawyers are required to select at least one learning activity to help develop or enhance each competency they selected in developing their plan, using either the drop-down menu in the CPD Tool or adding another activity of their choice. Lawyers may select more than one learning activity per competency, based on their practice and what they determine to be effective for their learning goals.

Lawyers can choose up to 20 competencies for their plan. There are no consequences for failing to complete progress on any of the competencies or learning activities added to a lawyer’s CPD plan so lawyers are encouraged to add as many competencies and activities as they think are reasonable, to support their professional development goals.

Alberta lawyers are not required to complete a minimum number of CPD hours. The Law Society does not accredit CPD activities.

LSA does not require CPD providers to be accredited with their organizations in order to offer CPDs to their members. The courses listed on LearnFormula are verifiable for CPD and can be counted towards the annual CPD requirement. It is up to the professional to determine whether the activity qualifies as eligible towards their CPD requirement.

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