These on-demand programs will enhance your chambers advocacy skills and improve your chances of successful outcomes in chambers. These presentations will:

• Help gain knowledge about approaches and skills that make oral and written chambers advocacy more focused, persuasive, and efficient
• Discuss what judges want and how they approach decision making
• Help learn to simplify chambers evidence by focusing on relevance and admissibility, proper use of hearsay, and when to question on affidavit
• Explore the Court’s mechanisms for scheduling and filing, and how to address atypical applications (including filing concise letters or briefs for morning chambers, arranging for emergency applications, etc)
• Consider how to prepare for and argue costs
• Help understand the benefits of pre-drafting Orders and how to settle the terms of contested Order

 These on-demand programs were originally presented as an in-person program on February 10, 2023 as part of our Effective Chambers Advocacy Program.

The total running time for each presentation ranges between 13 minutes to 2 hours, 12 minutes.

Chairs

Justice Robert W. Armstrong, Court of King’s Bench of Alberta 

Justice Jane A. Fagnan, Court of King’s Bench of Alberta

Justice Kevin Feth, Court of King’s Bench of Alberta 

Justice Debbie A. Yungwirth, Court of King’s Bench of Alberta  

Edmonton Presenters

Frank Friesacher KC, McCuaig Desrochers LLP

Dana Nowak, MLT Aikins LLP

Norm Picard KC, Bruyer & Mackay LLP

Calgary Presenters

Justice Denise Kiss, Court of King’s Bench of Alberta  

Nicole Dechaine, Dunphy Best Blocksom LLP

Brad Mustard, Moe Hannah LLP

Darren J. Reed, Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP