Stay up-to-date on upcoming legal events and programs. Today’s blog shares our program dates and early bird deadlines for the upcoming month.
February Programs
Drafting, Pleadings, Affidavits, and Orders: The Pleading Edge
Register online to attend in Edmonton (February 9) or Calgary (February 17).
- Discover best practices, review current case law, and explore the role that pleadings play in framing your case.
- Read the blog with seminar chair James Kindrake to learn what you’ll gain from this seminar that brings together a broad range of perspectives (from the civil litigator and family law practitioner to a Queen’s Bench Justice).
Advanced Child Support
Register online to attend in Edmonton (February 10) or Calgary (February 23).
- Explore what’s at play in high income cases, responsibility for post-secondary expenses, section 7 and section 18 considerations, and other complicated child support issues.
- Read the blog with seminar chair Pam Bell to hear why experienced practitioners should attend this program to gain insight into issues from one end of the child support spectrum to the other.
Search Warrants
Register online to attend in Edmonton (February 19) or Calgary (February 26).
- Recognize different types of warrants and how to utilize them. Discuss Garofoli Applications, constitutional challenges, privacy expectations, delay in access to counsel, and more.
- Read the blog with seminar co-chair Karen Molle to discover more about the cutting edge topics discussed in this program targeted to both Crown and Defence counsel.
Registration Savings
Register now to take advantage of special early bird pricing for the following upcoming programs:
ENDING February 2
Family Law 25
Register online to attend in Edmonton (March 3) or Calgary (March 8).
- Review the top 5 cases relevant to 5 family law issues: child support, spousal support, matrimonial property, parenting, and unjust enrichment. Also discover tax tips related to each of these areas.
- Read the blog with seminar chair Marla Miller QC for her top 5 reasons why you’ll benefit from this program, from the valuable information you’ll gain to understanding current court perspectives.
ENDING February 16
49th Annual Refresher: Real Estate
Register online to attend in Lake Louise (April 24–26).
- Focus on common practice, thorny issues, and new methods in real estate. Engage in 6 half-day sessions geared towards all practitioners who want to keep current in the practice of real estate law.
- Read the blog to find out what you can expect from this year’s 2016 Refresher program.
If you’re coming to Lake Louise for the 49th Annual Refresher: Real Estate, why not also register for the add-on program: Alberta Land Titles Online?
- Read the blog with Curtis Woollard, from Land Titles North, to learn more about what you’ll gain from this add-on program and how the upcoming changes to implement digital signatures in land titles transactions will affect your practice.
- Register online for Alberta Land Titles Online in Lake Louise on April 23.
CPLED Modules
Interviewing and Advising
This mandatory CPLED module runs in Calgary or Edmonton (February 8–12).
- Interact in a face-to-face environment that includes instruction in and testing competence for interviewing and advising skills.
- If you are a current CPLED student and have any questions about this module, please contact the LESA Student Coordinator Ashley Iachetta at [email protected] or 780.969.3557.
Events in the Legal Community
Western Canada Class Actions Conference
Register online to attend the live program in Vancouver or the live webinar (February 26).
- Explore the implications of the latest case law on critical and topical issues.
- Read the blog to learn more about the course objectives for this program that LESA is offering in collaboration with the Continuing Legal Education Society of British Columbia (CLEBC).
If you want LESA’s help to raise awareness about an upcoming event relevant to the Alberta legal community, contact Renee Vander Meulen, Communications Coordinator.
780.969.0553 or [email protected]
