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.
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Jump Start on CPD
Don’t wait until the end of the year to earn your CPD credits. Stay ahead of the curve with our Jump Start rebroadcast series! From March 4 to 8, you can watch rebroadcasts of some of our most popular courses of the past few months
Planning and Development 2024
Planning and development crosses multiple areas of legal practice—municipal, administrative, and real estate. In this course, we will tie all of these aspects together to give you a comprehensive understanding of planning and development.
Securities Litigation 2024
This course is your comprehensive review of current law and practice in the multi-faceted niche of securities litigation, engaging civil, administrative, and criminal law in different forums and often engaging multi-jurisdictional interests.
Advanced Wills and Estates for Paralegals 2024
Complex issues regarding estate planning will be explained, including discussion on inter vivos and testamentary trusts. The course will also look at the contemporary issue of estate planning for blended families, among other topics.
Tax Reporting by Lawyers on Client Trust Accounts
During this course, you will be introduced to the fundamental tax reporting obligations in relation to client trust accounts.
Tax Reporting by Lawyers on Client Trust Accounts (Rebroadcast)
During this course, you will be introduced to the fundamental tax reporting obligations in relation to client trust accounts.
Computer Forensics and Electronic Evidence
This specialized course is designed to provide lawyers with a comprehensive understanding of digital forensics and digital evidence, empowering them to effectively navigate and leverage these critical elements in litigation.
Tax Reporting by Lawyers on Client Trust Accounts (Rebroadcast)
During this course, you will be introduced to the fundamental tax reporting obligations in relation to client trust accounts.
Associate Mentoring Plus (AMP)
This one-year-long program will help you build a solid foundation for a rewarding and sustainable legal career through a fully integrated curriculum that combines monthly educational programs with small-group coaching and one-on-one mentorship.
PST on Legal Services
During this course, you will be introduced to a decision matrix in determining when to levy and collect PST on legal services.
Death is Not the End: Estate Administration Workshop – Session 1 (IN-PERSON)
Join us for this highly interactive workshop on estate administration matters, combining short lectures with group discussion of various resolutions.
Adapt and Thrive: AI and the Future of Law
Join us and an equip yourself with the knowledge and skills to leverage AI for innovative legal solutions and stay ahead in the rapidly evolving legal landscape.
Closing Submissions — It Ain’t Over Till It’s Over
Join CLEBC's team of judges and leading counsel for an intensive day of learning focused on the construction of closing submissions.
Advanced Family Mediation – Dealing with Difficult Issues in Family Mediation
The fourth and final course in CLEBC's Family Law Mediation curriculum, this program will focus on issues such as bias and impartiality, ethical issues in mediation, high-conflict personalities, culture, co-mediation, and multiparty disputes.
Creditors Remedies 2024
Enforcing creditors' rights can be complex. This comprehensive program will show you how to succeed using all the available tools and processes.
Employment Law Conference 2024: Day 1 (IN-PERSON & WEBINAR)
With an agenda curated from your submissions, leading practitioners and your colleagues will explore emerging issues in employment law and update you on the core topics.
Employment Law Conference 2024 (IN-PERSON & WEBINAR)
With an agenda curated from your submissions, leading practitioners and your colleagues will explore emerging issues in employment law and update you on the core topics.
Employment Law Conference 2024: Day 2 (IN-PERSON & WEBINAR)
With an agenda curated from your submissions, leading practitioners and your colleagues will explore emerging issues in employment law and update you on the core topics.
Indigenous Real Estate
This course will explore a broad spectrum of topics within the Indigenous real estate space to provide context, technical knowledge, best and culturally aligned practices for real estate transactions, leasing, development, joint ventures, financing, and more.
Career Navigation for Lawyers
In this 90-minute interactive webinar, lawyer coach Allison Wolf will help you develop a vision for your career, create a plan to get there, and teach you how to navigate your way to a flourishing career.
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.