Explore key topics for legal support staff through this comprehensive program, including family property spreadsheets, understanding ADR processes, trial preparation (including summary and expedited trials), mental health strategies, effective communication, and a guide for legal support staff on reviews of lawyers’ charges. Tailored to equip legal support professionals with strategies to effectively support both lawyers and clients, these programs also consider best practices and tools to maintain digital file organization. These on-demand programs were originally presented on June 6, 2024. The total running time for each presentation ranges between 35 minutes to 1 hour, 17 minutes.

Family law can be tough for all involved, from clients to lawyers and legal support staff. Explore strategies to help legal support staff better manage and prioritize their workload, avoid potential burnout, mitigate risks for compassion fatigue, and provide mental health support mechanisms. This on-demand program was originally presented as an in-person program titled Family Law for Legal Support Staff on June 6, 2024.  Total running time is 58 minutes.

Family law can be tough for all involved, from clients to lawyers and legal support staff. This paper explores strategies to help legal support staff better manage and prioritize their workload, avoid potential burnout, mitigate risks for compassion fatigue, and provide mental health support mechanisms. This paper is part of a collection presented at LESA’s Family Law for Legal Support Staff program in Edmonton on June 6, 2024.

This paper discusses the types of interventions conducted by a parenting expert, which are classified as either evaluative interventions or therapeutic interventions. It provides an overview of the following types of evaluative interventions: informal and formal triage, views of the child, parent psychological evaluation, child/adolescent psychological evaluation, focused assessments, and arbitration. It also examines the following therapeutic interventions: educational sessions, mediation, parent counselling, divorce counselling, child counselling, family counselling, and remedial facilitated access. This paper is part of a collection presented at LESA’s Custody and Access 2018 program in Edmonton on March 6, 2018 and in Calgary on March 13, 2018.  

This paper presents information on how psychologists can fulfill expert roles in the areas of separation, divorce, custody, family violence, and child abuse. Additionally, this paper also provides a list of key ethical guidelines that should be understood and followed by psychologists as well as a list of the typical components of a retainer agreement. This paper was presented at LESA’s Family Law – Getting the Most Out of Your Experts program on April 27, 2013.