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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.