The Legal Research and Writing module is the first online module for CPLED students in the 2013/14 educational year. The session begins on September 5. Thanks to our Learning Group Facilitators, students will have experienced lawyers to guide them through the assignments and help prepare them for their competency evaluations.
One of our Learning Group Facilitators is Carrie Styczen. She was called to the Alberta bar in 1998, and practiced at Thornborough Smeltz Gillis (now Thornborough Smeltz LLP) before taking time off to be a stay-at-home mom. While practicing law, Carrie focused on civil and matrimonial litigation, real estate, and wills and estates work.
Carrie, who has been a Learning Group Facilitator since 2005, believes the Legal Research and Writing module will likely look more familiar to the students than other modules because they are used to conducting legal research from their years in law school.
“What I like about this module is that it acts as a bridge between the academic focus of law school research and the practical aspect of real world legal research,” explains Carrie. “Law school research assignments are designed to foster creative legal thinking and to develop and test the students’ knowledge of the subject matter. In practice, a lawyer conducts research for a specific purpose – to address a client’s specific issue and to assist the lawyer in providing informed and practical recommendations tailored to the client’s circumstance and needs.”
This module, and the CPLED Program in general, helps the students in this transition of melding the academic and the practical, which is necessary to succeed in a career as a practicing lawyer.
Thanks to Carrie Styczen and all the Learning Group Facilitators for their commitment and support of CPLED students.
Questions about the CPLED experience? Contact Student Coordinator Amanda Properzi at 780-969-0551 or visit www.lesa.org.
