Legal education built for Saudi practice
SBA Academy is the educational arm of the Saudi Bar Association — it designs, evaluates, and delivers the qualifying and training programs of the legal profession in the Kingdom.
The educational arm of the Saudi Bar Association
SBA Academy is the educational arm of the Saudi Bar Association, exercising the powers set out in the Authority’s charter approved by Council of Ministers Decision No. 317 dated 27/04/2015 — which granted the Authority the mandate to design and evaluate the qualifying and training programs of the legal profession, organize courses, and hold and take part in conferences, seminars, meetings, forums, and exhibitions related to the profession, in line with the established procedures. The Academy also delivers its work and a number of its programs in partnership with specialized training and qualification bodies, locally and internationally, to offer the best practices and expertise at a high professional standard.
Vision & mission
Leadership in legal training and research
Leadership in legal training, studies, and research — toward forming a trusted legal practitioner.
Empower, protect, and elevate the profession
Empowering and protecting the profession and maximizing its economics, and raising the professionalism of lawyers and legal practitioners within the regulatory and technical enablers and guarantees.
What we work toward
Empower the sector
Empower the legal-profession and legal-consulting sector and grow its economics.
Develop practitioners
Support, qualify, and develop lawyers and legal practitioners.
Strengthen the Authority
Strengthen the Authority’s enablers and its reference role.
Program advantages
Accredited pass certificate
Earn an accredited pass certificate on successful completion — recognized across the profession.
Rigorous training kits
Rigorously reviewed training materials, vetted by specialists to ensure quality and accuracy.
Curators and instructors
The academy is led by the Saudi Bar Association and run day-to-day by an editorial team that pairs operational expertise with legal review. Subject-matter editors are senior lawyers seconded from member firms; our advisory board brings together judges, regulators, and legal academics.
Counselor Khalid Al-Otaibi
Academy Director
Former partner at a leading Riyadh corporate firm; oversees the academy’s editorial direction and quality standards.
Dr. Mona Al-Rashed
Head of Curriculum
Designs the structured paths and pairs each course with a domain reviewer drawn from the SBA membership.
Counselor Faisal Al-Dossary
Faculty Lead, Labour & Employment
Leads the labour-law track; runs the live workshop programme in Riyadh and Jeddah.
Dr. Yousef Al-Faisal, FCIArb
Advisor, Arbitration & ADR
Chairs the arbitration advisory group; reviews every programme that touches dispute-resolution.
The institutions we work with
Every course we publish has been reviewed by people who use the law in their daily work. That review is only possible because of an active network of partner institutions willing to second their experts, host workshops, and let us draw on real cases for our teaching material.
Saudi Bar Association
The academy is the SBA’s official digital learning platform; member firms second the lawyers who author and review our courses.
Ministry of Justice
Collaboration on practitioner training aligned with the courts’ procedural reforms.
Saudi Center for Commercial Arbitration
Co-designed programmes on commercial arbitration and on-site workshops for accredited arbitrators.
Universities & law schools
Law faculties from King Saud University and Prince Sultan University contribute academic review and host joint research events.
Member law firms
Senior lawyers from the SBA’s member firms author programmes and lead live workshops across the Kingdom.
Regulatory bodies
Working groups with ZATCA, CMA, and other regulators keep our compliance content current.
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