Are you a lawyer who practices in the area of family law? Have you considered becoming a registered collaborative professional? LESA offers collaborative law programs on an annual basis. Here’s ...

The 2016/2017 Educational Calendar is now available!   We’ve been hard at work these past few months, developing a brand new list of LESA programming, selecting new Seminars on Demand, ...

  We’ve all had important interviews with influential people, and it is likely that most of us have relied on a tape recorder as back up. That being said, technology ...

  On June 25, 2016, LESA’s summer student’s Katie Moore and Angela Beierbach had the opportunity to attend the Alberta Lawyers’ Assistance Society’s (Assist) peer support training session. This confidential ...

  It’s the beginning of July, which means the start of a new educational year at LESA. Watch your mailbox for the 2016/2017 Educational Calendar, filled with a fresh list ...

The Rules of the Law Society of Alberta (LSA) [the Rules] were recently amended. The changes took effect on February 4, 2016. Key among the changes was the addition of ...

The Alberta Court Interpreters Association (ACIA) is in need of lawyers to participate in mock trials for Summer Training: Interpreters for Legal Settings. This 5-day workshop (August 17 – 21, ...

This year’s 49th Annual Refresher: Real Estate was a huge success! With more than 20 speakers covering topics such as eSignatures, Trust Conditions, Lawyer-to-Lawyer Relations, Foreign Ownership of Land, and ...

In 2015, the Supreme Court of Canada struck down the provisions of the Criminal Code of Canada, which prohibited physician assisted dying (Carter v Canada, 2015 SCC 5, 1 SCR ...

Have you ever thought how very strange it is that in this exact moment 10, 20, 50 years ago, something life changing may have been occurring? In today’s blog, the ...