CPLED Update: PREP Pilot Launches, More Coming Soon
The Canadian Centre for Professional Legal Education (CPLED) has launched the first pilot for the new Bar admission course, the Practice Readiness Education Program (PREP). CPLED welcomed 27 Alberta students to the PREP orientation workshop on August 1.
Built on best practices around the world, CPLED’s PREP delivers practical skills and competencies in an integrated approach combining interactive, transactional learning and simulation. The program includes online modules, face-to-face workshops and something really unique – an interactive virtual law firm where students work as lawyers, managing cases in business law, criminal law, family law and real estate. Finally, students participate in a final capstone case and reflection before being called to the Bar.
A second pilot will take place in January of 2020 in Manitoba. Third-year law students or applicants who have received a certificate of qualification from the Federation of Law Societies of Canada and are interested in participating in the Manitoba PREP pilot can fill out this form to express interest.
To read more on the PREP pilot, visit CPLED’s website.
CPLED is now on LinkedIn and Facebook!
CPLED encourages you to follow them on LinkedIn and like them on Facebook. They are working to create online communities for the legal profession that will extend beyond the Bar admission course and foster discussions on legal education.
CPLED will also be launching an e-newsletter in the coming weeks, featuring the latest news on the PREP pilot and recruitment opportunities for legal professionals beginning in 2020. To stay up-to-date on all CPLED related news, sign up on their website.