About our Workshops

Michalsons’ in-person and online workshops and executive briefings are designed to develop your knowledge and understanding of a topic while sharing practical insights into organisational impact. 

We offer live practical legal training in three formats:

Private Workshops

Private in-house workshops are tailored to your needs, are held online, and on a day that suits you, for an unlimited number of delegates.

Public Workshops

Public workshops are held online and cover a variety of interesting topics. To learn more visit our events page.

Executive Briefings

Executive briefings are accurate, high-level views on a topic. These briefings can be held online.

Data protection training

The Data protection practical essentials workshop will raise your awareness, teach you the impact of data protection (including the impact of POPI and the GDPR) on your organisation, and outline the practical ‘next steps’ to take when managing data protection in your organisation. 

The GDPR Workshop will raise your awareness about the GDPR; help you understand the impact of the GDPR on your organisation, and teach you how to comply with and implement the GDPR in your organisation.

Our  Information Security Regulation workshops focus specifically on the legal obligations placed on organisations to secure the integrity and confidentiality of the information they process.

If you’d like to attend this public workshop but the dates or location don’t suit you, send us an email and we’ll get back to you about workshops in your area.

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Data protection is a complex subject and if you’re not sure which training is appropriate for you. Complete our impact assessment questionnaire and we’ll hop on a call with you.

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We’ve had rave reviews from our attendees and hope to add your recommendation to the ones below.

Attending the seminar really helped me to identify the start to complying with POPI. Thanks for a really helpful session, much appreciated!

Entrepreneur, Online business
Just perfect!
Journalist, Large media group
“The presentation and training content was extremely helpful. Assisted in laying a good foundation for POPI implementation”

Legal and Compliance Officer, Major Insurance Company
It was very useful to have POPI explained in simple terms.
HR professional, Leading alcohol distributor
The facilitator was engaging, knowledgeable and informed. Thank you.
Marketing manager, Media broadcaster
We will be implementing POPI compliance projects straight away – the workshop was perfect!
Information and records manager, Multi-national pharmaceutical company
It was interesting to hear from other attendees at the workshop,
Actuarial assitant, Financial advisory firm
Concise, informative and well-presented.
Editor, National publication
“I thought the seminar was very interesting and the information was presented very well by John Giles.”
CEO, Technology based services

Information, Communication, and Technology Law Training

Empower yourself with knowledge on IT governance, risk and compliance by attending our practical IT GRC workshop.

Empower yourself with a methodology and get tools to help you transition from King III to King IV simply and effectively by attending our Transition from King III to King IV Workshop.

Access to information law affects all organisations, especially in South Africa because both public and private bodies must give access to information if requested. Our Access to Information Law Workshop is designed for people who receive requests (information or data protection officers) and who request access. In other words, information holders and requesters.

Our half day Cybercrime Law Workshop will provide insight into how the Cybercrimes Act may affect you and your organisation.

If you’d like to attend this private workshop, send us an email and we’ll get back to you.

Is it your responsibility to draft, negotiate, sign and manage the commercial IT contracts for your organisation (whether IT vendor or user of IT)? Our IT Contracts Workshop will help you practically and effectively draft, negotiate, sign and manage IT Contracts.

Electronic signatures can speed up paper-based processes by making them completely electronic. The potential time and cost savings are huge. We provide detailed training on the legalities around using electronic signatures.

We all use social media every day, but are we aware of the risks and the legals that apply to our online activities. Our workshops are designed to be highly interactive with the audience, with QR codes embedded into the presentation to allow students to have access to source material during the presentation. One of our workshops is called Online Awareness for Learners.

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Our Other Focus Area Legal Training

The Drone Law Webinar will help get you up-to-speed with knowing how to fly your drone in accordance with the law and, understanding the requirements for flying your drone.

We offer workshops, seminars and executive briefings on why you should use Plain Legal Language as well as practical training on how to use it. Our current focus for intensive workshops is plain language in financial services, insurance, and healthcare related documents.

Legal Language: Plain and Simple

Do your customers understand your documents? Simple language in many contracts and legal documents has become a consumer right and a competitive advantage. Poor legal drafting has become a liability. We run a Legal Language: Plain and Simple workshop to explain why plain legal language is so important, to start you on the journey from legal jargon to clear communications and get you bitten by the plain language bug.

iLEXplain: Plain Legal Language

We take this journey a step further and invite you to attend our public iLEXplain: Plain legal language workshops. You will learn to identify unnecessarily complex language in a legal and business context and learn practical techniques for drafting or editing legal documents in plain language.

Our Managing the Relationship between Shareholders Workshops are designed to provide a general overview of the documents and agreements that regulate the relationship between shareholders. It also provides a forum to discuss the important aspects of the relationship and record them in a good Memorandum of Incorporation (MOI) and a Shareholders Agreement.

Our Practical Consumer Protection Act Workshop will help you comply with the Consumer Protection Act (CPA) and provide you with a good understanding of the practical impact on organisations.

Our Disciplinary Hearings Workshop will provide you with a quick and simple way to listen to what employees have to say in response to alleged misconduct or incapability.

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If you’re looking for online training, you may also be interested in our series of legal webinars and programmes. These allow you to learn from the comfort of your desk.

Please complete our impact assessment questionnaire. It will take you about 4 minutes and there is no charge to you, and we’ll get back to you with suggestions of a way forward so that you can make an informed choice.