Legal support staff play a critical role in the civil litigation process. Examine civil procedure issues that legal support staff may encounter and identify practical strategies and solutions to address them. Discuss the interplay between the technical requirements of the law of civil procedure and the day-to-day work of legal support staff. These on-demand programs were originally presented on November 22, 2024. The total running time for each presentation ranges between 41 minutes to 1 hour.

Explore the work of legal support staff at the very early stages of a civil matter and provides helpful information to make a legal assistant’s job less stressful. This on-demand program was originally presented as an in-person program titled Civil Procedure for Legal Support Staff on November 22, 2024.  Total running time is 57 minutes.

The Alberta Civil Practice Manual contains comprehensive information vital to your civil litigation practice. Packed with background information and commentary, this manual contains valuable information to get you through a litigation file from start to finish, including topics on commencing an action, questioning, managing litigation, trial, and judgments and orders.

This paper attempts to provide a general perspective regarding the work of legal assistants at the very early stages of a civil matter. The goal is to provide general information to make a legal assistant’s job less stressful. This paper is part of a collection presented at LESA’s Civil Procedure for Legal Support Staff program in Edmonton on November 22, 2024.