Explore different perspectives, ideas and resources relevant to you and your practice, while connecting with colleagues.

Select one Connection Workshop when registering. Places are limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis

1. Connecting Purpose and Practice: An Introduction to eConveyancing

   In keeping with this year's theme of moving from resilience to adaptability, this 30-minute taster session introduces the Law Society's online eConveyancing platform as a practical example of adaptability in action. It offers a brief look at how digital tools such as identity verification (IDV), qualified electronic signatures (QES) and accessibility features can streamline the conveyancing process and reduce administrative strain. The session considers how embracing these tools supports a more efficient, adaptable approach to practice, reconnecting practitioners with the purpose of their work.

2. Regulatory Support Services – Your Roadmap to Success

   Join the Regulation team for an interactive workshop on navigating challenges, building resilience, and developing efficient, best-practice procedures to meet your professional obligations in a changing regulatory landscape.

3. More Ways In: Rethinking Solicitor Training

   The pathways into the solicitors’ profession are evolving. This interactive session explores new and flexible routes to qualification, from the Professional Solicitor Apprenticeship to PPC Modular and PPC Hybrid, alongside supports designed to widen access to the profession. Discover what these developments mean for aspiring solicitors, firms and the future of solicitor education and training.

4. Can You Spot a Legal Desert? Exploring the Future of Legal Services in Ireland

   Are legal deserts emerging in Ireland, and what can the profession do about them? Join the Centre for Justice and Law Reform for an interactive workshop combining live challenges, audience polling, and collaborative problem solving. Test your assumptions about access to legal services across Ireland, explore the factors driving gaps in provision, and work with colleagues to develop practical solutions that could help shape the future of access to justice.

5. What’s in the Cards? A Fresh Approach to Career, Practice & Wellbeing

   What might the cards reveal about your career, practice and professional life? Join the Career & Practice Development team for a short, interactive session using cards, curveballs and conversation to explore some of the choices and opportunities shaping legal careers. Share perspectives with colleagues and consider themes such as career and practice development, wellbeing, leadership, and the future of legal practice. Leave with fresh perspectives, relevant resources, and new possibilities to consider.

6. Mind, Body & Soul: Restorative Yoga

   Step out of the working day and into a gentle relaxation experience designed to bring you out of your head and into your body. Through accessible yoga movements, stretching, breathwork and guided relaxation, release tension, slow things down and create space to reset before the festival evening. Come as you are in comfortable workwear.