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LESA is thrilled to announce the return of our Annual Intensive Advocacy in 2025!
Develop a confident, professional courtroom presence by exploring every aspect of trial and hearing work. LESA’s Intensive Advocacy course is an intense, learn-by-doing program that offers an incomparable opportunity to develop skills as an advocate. This course couples continual performance with rich performance feedback. With the aid of brief faculty lectures and faculty demonstrations, attendees perform drills and exercises designed to hone critical advocacy skills.
This course focuses on four key competencies designed to help attendees develop and perfect their advocacy skills: case analysis, storytelling, evidence, and courtroom decorum. On the final day of the course, attendees integrate these competencies in a simulated trial or hearing.
Please Note: This program has limited enrolment.
Faculty
Chair
Jennifer L. Ruttan, Ruttan Bates
Team Leaders
Justice Janet Dixon, Alberta Court of Justice
Mona T. Duckett KC, Dawson, Duckett, Garcia & Johnson
Tim Mavko, Reynolds Mirth Richards & Farmer LLP
Hon. Rosemary E. Nation, Retired Justice, Court of King’s Bench of Alberta
William (Bill) W. Shores KC, Shores Jardine LLP
Andrew Wilson KC, JSS Barristers
Alexander Yiu, Ackroyd LLP
Guest Instructors
Elizabeth Aspinall, Bennett Jones LLP
Danielle Collins, Latitude Family Law LLP
Steve Eichler, Field LLP
Gavin Fitch KC, McLennan Ross LLP
Frank Friesacher KC, McCuaig Desrochers LLP
Justice David Gates, Court of King’s Bench of Alberta
Danielle E. Green, Alberta Crown Prosecution Service
Justice Michele H. Hollins, Court of King’s Bench of Alberta
Elizabeth Iredale, Alberta Justice
Michael Kirk KC, Miller Thomson LLP
Linda Maj KC, Department of Justice Canada
Laura Marr, Alberta Court of Justice
Robert D. McDonald KC, Bennett Jones LLP
Justice Karen Molle, Alberta Court of Justice
Thomas O’Leary KC, Blue Rock Law LLP
Kathryn Quinlan, Dawson, Duckett, Garcia & Johnson
Mylène Tiessen, Peacock Linder Halt & Mack LLP
James D. Thomas, Alberta Crown Prosecution Service
Program Details
Date: June 9, 2025 – June 14, 2025
Cost: $3,695
How to Register
Click here for the program registration page.
