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The Legal Education Society of Alberta (LESA) is hosting a number of programs in May.

Register for a program below, or view the full events calendar.

Date:	Topic:
May 4 – 7, 2023	LESA’s Refresher 2023: Family Law (Jasper)
May 12, 2023, 9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.	Practice Fundamentals: Questioning (Edmonton, in-person or live stream)
May 30, 2023, 9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.	Advising Tech-Enabled Startup Companies (Edmonton, in-person or live stream)
May 31, 2023, 9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.	Personal Injury and Insurance Update (Edmonton, in-person or live stream)

Visit the LESA website for more information.

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The Legal Education Society of Alberta (LESA) is hosting a number of programs in March.

Register for a program below, or view the full events calendar.

Date:	Topic:
March 9, 2023, 9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.	Practice Foundations: Wills (Edmonton, in-person or virtual live stream)
March 15, 2023, 9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.	Bankruptcy and Insolvency Essentials (Edmonton, In-person or virtual live stream)
March 16, 2023, 9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.	Municipal Law (Edmonton)

 

Visit the LESA website for more information.

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The Legal Education Society of Alberta (LESA) is hosting a number of programs in February.

Register for a program below, or view the full events calendar.

Date:	Topic:
Feb. 9, 2023, from 9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. (MT)	Commercial and Corporate Transactions for Legal Support Staff (Edmonton)
Feb. 10, 2023, from 9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. (MT)	Effective Chambers Advocacy (Edmonton)
Feb. 23, 2023, from 9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. (MT)	Commercial and Corporate Transactions for Legal Support Staff (Calgary)
Feb. 24, 2023, from 9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. (MT)	Effective Chambers Advocacy (Calgary)

Visit the LESA website for more information.

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More and more cases rely on digital evidence. How can lawyers recover digital information from computers, mobile devices, and cloud sources in ways that will be accepted by the courts? How can they certify that the data is authentic? Collecting digital evidence in a secure manner, using sound forensic methodologies, is key.

Join the Legal Education Society of Alberta (LESA) and a digital forensic expert on Nov. 28, 2022, from 12 p.m. – 1 p.m. (MT), to gain a greater understanding of how this resource can support your cases and develop strategies to unlock digital evidence.

Price: 

•  $95 + GST

Register to attend this webinar.

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Join the Legal Education Society of Alberta (LESA) and experienced faculty on Nov. 25, 2022, from 9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. (MT), as they answer questions and engage in thoughtful discussions about how to address family violence in chambers.

Topics include:

• Obtaining and providing evidence
• Relevant legal tests and principles
• Issues related to parent-child contact resistance
• Appropriate parenting outcomes in cases of family violence

Price: 

• $445 + GST

Register for the in-person session or virtual live stream option.

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Access to civil justice is in a state of emergency. The legal needs of Canadians remain largely unmet, despite efforts by the legal profession and governments to address the issue. In response to this crisis, both lawyers and non-lawyers are innovating to provide legal services in more accessible and affordable ways. However, their initiatives are sometimes stopped in their tracks by the rules governing the legal profession.

Law societies in various jurisdictions have recently implemented Innovation Sandboxes, which allow for some of these rules to be temporarily lifted to encourage the development of innovative pilot projects. These initiatives echo a recent CBA Resolution that called for law societies to permit regulatory innovations that have the potential to improve accessibility, affordability, and quality of civil legal services.

This webinar will provide a deep dive into these new sandboxes. It will explore the reasons for which they were established, the parameters along which they analyze and approve projects, the safeguards they implement to protect the public, and some of the early results they have generated in their first months or years of operation. We will also discuss some of the differences between these sandboxes and the prospective regulatory changes they may yield in the future.

Sandboxes: What’s the Buzz? Tell Me What’s Happening
Presented by the CBA Access to Justice Subcomittee
Thursday December 8, 2022
10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. MT

 

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The Canadian Bar Association is hosting their annual Family Youth Provincial Court Town Hall Meeting on Monday, Nov. 14 from 12:15 p.m. – 1:45 p.m. (MT).

Registration fee: 

• CBA Full Subscribers: No charge
• CBA Webcast Subscribers: No charge
• On-Demand Subscribers: $15
• Non-Section Subscribers: $15
• CBA Law Student Members: No charge

Register by 12 p.m. on Nov. 13, 2022, to attend.

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Legal Aid Alberta has assembled an expert panel of speakers to cover a variety of topics relating to mental health and the criminal code on Nov. 22, 2022, from 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. (MT).

Topics include:

• Forensic psychiatry for lawyers – A crash course in terminology and key concepts
• Understanding (and challenging) risk assessments
• Forensic psychiatry and sex offenders: What lawyers need to know (risk, treatment, etc.)
• The law of fitness and NCRMD (i.e. what comes before the Review Board)
• Introduction to practice at the Alberta Review Board
• Introduction to the Mental Health Act and Mental Health Review Panel process
• Mental Health Court & practice tips for working with mentally ill clients
• Trauma informed practice

Speakers:

• Judge Michelle Collinson, Provincial Court of Alberta
• Dr. Raheed Syed, MD, FRCPC, Forensic Psychiatrist, Alberta Health Services
• Alexandra Seaman, Defence Counsel, DDSG Criminal Law
• Amna Qureshi, Staff Lawyer, Legal Aid Alberta
• Andrew Holko, Staff Lawyer, Legal Aid Alberta

Register to attend this free event online.

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University of Alberta, Law Students for Human Rights Club and the Canadian Red Cross present the 2022 International Humanitarian Law (IHL) academic conference, to be held on Thursday, Nov. 3, 2022, from 12-2 p.m. (MT). 

This conference will bring together experts from the field, including academics and representatives from the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement, to discuss Climate Change and Armed Conflict.

Alberta lawyers may consider including this conference as a CPD learning activity in the annual Continuing Professional Development Plan.

Register to attend this free event.

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As part of Access to Justice Week, Legal Aid Alberta will be hosting a webinar on Oct. 25, from 12-1 p.m. (MT), for lawyers and law students interested in finding out what it takes to become duty counsel in Alberta. Attendees will also learn about the different services duty counsel provides, the objectives and expectations of the role, and tips for dealing with common challenges.

Speakers: 

• Danny Lynn – Senior Advisory Counsel, Adult Criminal Law, Legal Aid Alberta
• Katie Clarey – Advisory Counsel, Legal Aid Alberta

There is no cost associated with the event or deadline to register.