Starting your articling year can feel like a leap into the unknown. If you’re an Alberta law student or upcoming articling student that is looking for some guidance on how to navigate your articling year, check out the free online LESA course, Articling 101.
How to Find Success in Your Articling Year and Beyond
The course is designed to provide students with the foundational skills they need for a successful legal practice. The following lessons will be outlined throughout the course:
- Practice Management
- Introduction to Litigation Matters
- Introduction to Solicitor Matters
- Transitioning from Student to Lawyer
You’ll learn essential skills for building a sustaining law practice, including time, file, and client management, how to effectively managing disputes, and how to start and manage solicitor files. This course will also provide helpful tips as you transition from student to lawyer, including how to find clients, how to market your brand, how to effectively delegate, how to deliver advice and report errors, and more.
After each lesson, you will be provided with a list of recommended on-demand programs and papers to accompany the lesson materials.
Student Discounts
Articling students can take 25% off on-demand programs when they use the code student25, and can access a one-year single-user subscription to the complete LESA Library for only $195 with the code studentlibrary.
Want More Free CLE Resources?
As a LESA.org account holder you get automatic access to 11 free online courses. If you don’t yet have a LESA.org account, you can create one here. Free online courses include:
- A Lawyer’s Guide to Effective Networking
- Anti-Racism Education for Legal Professionals
- Articling 101
- Client Identification and Verification
- How to Make it Past the First Cut: What Recruiters and Employers are Looking for
- Indigenous Law Conference
- Introduction to the Code of Conduct
- LESA’s Refresher 2022: Wills and Estates Keynote Address
- Notarizing and Commissioning Documents
- Opening Your Own Shop: What You Need To Know Before Hanging Your Shingle
- Trust Accounting 1: Fundamentals
- Trust Accounting 2: Responsible Lawyers
That’s not all that LESA has for free. Did you know that you can subscribe to the complimentary Practice Management collection on the LESA Library to access practice management papers and precedents to support your law practice? To find out more, click here.
Note that if you are a paid subscriber of the library, you already get access to this collection, and our Specialized Areas of Law collection, as part of your annual subscription.
How to Access Articling 101
Click here to create your LESA.org account. Once created, this course and more will automatically appear in your Classroom acount. If you already have a LESA.org account you can access Articling 101 here.
