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Fundamentals of Judicial Review 2024 (IN-PERSON & WEBINAR)
Whether you are a junior lawyer starting out or you have limited experience with judicial review, this is the course for you! We will take you through a judicial review application from beginning through drafting to presentation.
Advanced Securities 2024: Day 1
Day 1 of this two-part series will find leading securities practitioners curating only the most important big transactions, trends, and hot topics to discuss with you. This will be your efficient solution to learning all about the latest developments.
Family Law Basics for Paralegals and Legal Support Staff
This course covers everything legal support staff and junior paralegals need to know to begin a successful career in a family law office. You will learn about preparing and managing documents, opening and organizing a file, working with difficult clients, and more!
Torts Update
This comprehensive course is CLEBC's review of current developments and emerging trends in tort law.
Death is Not the End: Estate Administration Workshop – Session 2 (IN-PERSON)
Join us for this highly interactive workshop on estate administration matters, combining short lectures with group discussion of various resolutions.
Children and Youth Interview Skills Workshop (SOLD OUT)
At this interview training, you will learn how to adapt your practice to ensure that you are creating safety, respecting boundaries, and providing meaningful participation when interviewing young people involved in the legal system.
Engaging Conflict in the Moment: Using Curiosity to Turn Conflict into Cooperation
In this one-day workshop, you will learn and practice how strategic curiosity, aimed at discovering the "why" behind conflict behaviour, can help you change conflict dynamics and achieve results.
The Powerful Performance: Effective Advocacy Skills for Lawyers (COURSE FULL)
Designed to teach lawyers how to be more natural, believable, and self-possessed and to implement simple, concrete techniques that will maximize your performance at trial, in mediation, at arbitration, and in any legal argument.
Advanced Securities 2024: Day 2
Day 2 of this two-part series will find leading securities practitioners curating only the most important big transactions, trends, and hot topics to discuss with you. This will be your efficient solution to learning all about the latest developments.
Estate Planning for Blended Families 2024
This course addresses the interplay between family law and estate planning, including the often conflicting obligations presented by these two areas of law.
Family Violence Screening Training for Litigators and DR Professionals (IN-PERSON)
This highly interactive two-day workshop is the only comprehensive family violence training available in BC. Featuring real case studies, personal stories, role-playing, coaching, and review of current literature, research, and statistics, this is a must-attend event for family dispute resolution professionals looking to meet their training requirements under the FLA.
Self-Governing Professions 2024
At this one-day course, you will learn about the latest developments and the most critical and complex issues facing self-regulating bodies.
Winning Advocacy Skills Workshop 2024 (SOLD OUT)
Have you ever wanted to receive honest, personalized feedback from senior counsel and judges to take your advocacy skills to the next level? This is your chance to practice on your feet in a real courtroom.
Estate Litigation Basics 2024 (IN-PERSON & WEBINAR)
This basics course will provide you with the fundamental building blocks to litigate a wills and estates case, plus build a practice in this area.
Indigenous Legal Orders Conference 2024: Language, Culture and Transforming Legal Institutions (IN-PERSON & WEBINAR)
At this conference, you will learn from scholars and practitioners of Indigenous law about the legal principles and concepts underlying Indigenous legal orders, as well as about the importance of Indigenous legal processes and institutions.
Current Issues in Social Media and Copyright Law
This panel of media lawyers/scholars will discuss various challenging legal questions that have recently emerged on the social media landscape in the sphere of copyright law.
Tendering Fundamentals
This one-hour session complements the full-day course Tendering Update 2024 and will provide you with a review of the fundamentals involved in the process.
Tendering Update
This course will identify key legal issues that arise in the myriad ways tendering is used in business and provide insight into their identification, clarification, and management throughout the bid and award stages. Our expert faculty will tackle emerging issues such as supply chain constraints, price escalation clauses, and new equity, diversity, and inclusion requirements.
Introduction to Financial Statements for Legal Professionals
At this introductory workshop, Chartered Professional Accountants experienced in working with lawyers will teach you basic accounting concepts, along with what financial statements reveal about a company's performance and viability.
How to Get the Most Out of Your Mentorship as a Mentor or Mentee
In this one hour session, mentors and mentees alike will learn strategies and tools they can use to get the most out of their mentoring relationships.
Insurance Law Basics
This program is an introduction for solicitors and litigators to what they really need to know to navigate insurance contracts and insurance law generally.
Sentencing 2024
This comprehensive course will look at a broad array of hot topics, in sentencing, both established and emerging.
Shareholders’ Agreements
This program will provide you with a solid foundation for drafting shareholders' agreements, and you will walk away with a model shareholders' agreement.
Advanced Conveyancing Topics for Paralegals and Legal Support Staff
In this course, our senior faculty will focus on a variety of advanced issues faced by conveyancers every day, including many hot topics.
Cross-Examination of Witnesses Through Interpreters
In this two-hour session, our panelists will provide their insight into the legal, ethical, and practical challenges and considerations on how to effectively collect and test evidence through the use of interpreters.
Robert’s Rules of Order – Demystified (COURSE FULL)
We will discuss the application of parliamentary procedure and Robert's Rules of Order in meetings. You will gain an understanding of rules and the principles that they are intended to uphold.
Workplace Fatality Cases
This comprehensive half-day program will examine the investigations by WorkSafeBC and the RCMP when a workplace fatality occurs, illuminating the differences and nuances of the two processes and how various factors will dictate the best course of action for counsel.
Summary Trials
This course is a comprehensive review of the principles and strategic and tactical considerations that go into assessing and framing (or challenging) a matter that is under consideration as a summary trial.
Gladue in Practice (FREE! IN-PERSON & WEBINAR)
This free course is designed as a practical guide to every stage of the Gladue report lifecycle. We will examine current best practices for report writing on a provincial and national level and welcome collaboration on future endeavours for enhancing the effectiveness of Gladue in practice.
Summer Series Rebroadcasts
Why wait until the last minute to complete your CPD requirements? Join our Summer Series and watch rebroadcasts of our most popular and in-demand courses from the past few months. Enroll now and make your summer count!
Summer Series Rebroadcasts
Why wait until the last minute to complete your CPD requirements? Join our Summer Series and watch rebroadcasts of our most popular and in-demand courses from the past few months. Enroll now and make your summer count!
Managing Associates for Better Outcomes
Take back control of your firm by better managing your associates. In this session, we'll look at everything from hires and onboarding to training, mentoring, compensation, and potential partnership.
Introduction to Family Dispute Resolution
This course is essential for new family mediators and those attending mediations as counsel. It will introduce participants to the theory and practice of negotiation and mediation.
How to Be a Great Litigation Junior (IN-PERSON & WEBINAR)
Join us for the fourth edition of our rave-reviewed course featuring a comprehensive review of the key elements of what it takes to excel as a junior litigator.
Improving Efficiency and Productivity in Your Practice
Feeling overwhelmed by your workload? Struggling to balance productivity with time for life outside the office? This course is designed to help you implement effective time management strategies that enhance efficiency and reduce stress.
Adapt and Thrive: AI and the Future of Law (IN-PERSON & WEBINAR)
Join us for an approachable dive into artificial intelligence and the future of legal practice. Equip yourself with the knowledge and skills to leverage AI for innovative legal solutions and stay ahead in the rapidly evolving legal landscape.
Robert’s Rules of Order – Demystified (COURSE FULL)
We will discuss the application of parliamentary procedure and Robert's Rules of Order in meetings. You will gain an understanding of rules and the principles that they are intended to uphold.
Family Violence Screening Training for Litigators and DR Professionals (COURSE FULL)
This highly interactive two-day workshop is the only comprehensive family violence training available in BC. Featuring real case studies, personal stories, role-playing, coaching, and review of current literature, research, and statistics, this is a must-attend event for family dispute resolution professionals looking to meet their training requirements under the FLA.
Regulatory Offences and Criminal Prosecution
This course will examine regulatory processes, their operation, and their implications for counsel. The regulated industries covered will include securities, forestry, mining, environmental protection, taxation, and workplace safety, among others.
Dealing with High Conflict Behaviours (SOLD OUT)
Learn the theory of high conflict behaviour, and explore skills and techniques to manage high conflict disputes. You will draw from your own experiences, refine your existing skillset, and practice new strategies, so that you can leave this course with insight and confidence when dealing with high conflict behaviour. Space is limited!
Construction Law 2024
At your update on construction law this year, solicitors and litigators team up to tell you how to try to avoid problems at the outset and how to deal with problems if they arise.
Real Estate Fundamentals
Here is your one-stop shop for a comprehensive overview of the fundamentals of real estate practice in BC! The expert faculty will take you through the essential issues and show you how to build a strong foundation in real estate law.
The New Money Judgment Enforcement Act: A Preview
This course will prepare you for the incoming Money Judgment Enforcement Act and the Money Judgment Enforcement Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions Act.
Estate Planning Update (Wills, Estates and Trusts Conference Day 1 — IN-PERSON & WEBINAR)
Join us as experienced faculty explore important estate planning topics of the day and provide you with tools so you can ensure that your clients' estates are distributed in an orderly fashion without controversy. You will leave this course up to date and confident in your ability to create practical plans for your clients' assets.
Wills, Estates and Trusts Conference 2024 (IN-PERSON & WEBINAR)
Join us for the two-day Wills, Estates and Trusts Conference 2024, featuring Estate Planning Update on Day 1 and Estate Litigation Update on Day 2. Join us and be the advisor your clients deserve today!
Estate Litigation Update (Wills, Estates and Trusts Conference Day 2 — IN-PERSON & WEBINAR)
Our experienced faculty will share their academic knowledge of the law surrounding estate litigation and their practice experience to further your skills as a litigator to handle all types of trust and estate-related issues. You will leave this course better equipped both in your knowledge and skills in estate litigation proceedings.
Labour Relations 2024 (IN-PERSON & WEBINAR)
This conference will provide you with a balanced approach towards key developments and issues in labour law, getting you up to date on the latest Charter, privacy, human rights, arbitration, Labour Relations Board, and judicial review issues — all in one day.
Advanced Financial Issues in Family Law (IN-PERSON & WEBINAR)
In this course, hear from experienced family law practitioners and financial experts on tips, information, and advice to resolve the complex financial issues that can come with family law files.
Your Numbers, Your Career: Business of Law Fundamentals for Associates
This course will explore the financial role associates play — specifically how their work contributes to billing clients and generating revenue — and how this can be highly beneficial to your firm's success.