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Winning Advocacy Skills Workshop 2024 (IN-PERSON)

Have you ever wanted to receive honest, personalized feedback from senior counsel and judges to take your advocacy skills to the next level? This is your chance to practice on your feet in a real courtroom.

Tendering Update (IN-PERSON & WEBINAR)

This course will identify key legal issues that arise in the myriad ways tendering is used in business and provide insight into their identification, clarification, and management throughout the bid and award stages. Our expert faculty will tackle emerging issues such as supply chain constraints, price escalation clauses, and new equity, diversity, and inclusion requirements.

Introduction to Financial Statements for Legal Professionals

At this introductory workshop, Chartered Professional Accountants experienced in working with lawyers will teach you basic accounting concepts, along with what financial statements reveal about a company's performance and viability.

Insurance Law Basics

This program is an introduction for solicitors and litigators to what they really need to know to navigate insurance contracts and insurance law generally. 

Sentencing 2024

This comprehensive course will look at a broad array of hot topics, in sentencing, both established and emerging.

Shareholders’ Agreements

This program will provide you with a solid foundation for drafting shareholders' agreements, and you will walk away with a model shareholders' agreement.

Cross-Examination of Witnesses Through Interpreters

In this two-hour session, our panelists will provide their insight into the legal, ethical, and practical challenges and considerations on how to effectively collect and test evidence through the use of interpreters.

Workplace Fatality Cases

This comprehensive half-day program will examine the investigations by WorkSafeBC and the RCMP when a workplace fatality occurs, illuminating the differences and nuances of the two processes and how various factors will dictate the best course of action for counsel.

Summary Trials

This course is a comprehensive review of the principles and strategic and tactical considerations that go into assessing and framing (or challenging) a matter that is under consideration as a summary trial.

Gladue in Practice (IN-PERSON & WEBINAR)

This course is designed as a practical guide to every stage of the Gladue report lifecycle. We will examine current best practices for report writing on a provincial and national level and welcome collaboration on future endeavours for enhancing the effectiveness of Gladue in practice.

Summer Series Rebroadcasts

Why wait until the last minute to complete your CPD requirements? Join our Summer Series and watch rebroadcasts of our most popular and in-demand courses from the past few months. Enroll now and make your summer count!

Summer Series Rebroadcasts

Why wait until the last minute to complete your CPD requirements? Join our Summer Series and watch rebroadcasts of our most popular and in-demand courses from the past few months. Enroll now and make your summer count!

Introduction to Family Dispute Resolution

This course is essential for new family mediators and those attending mediations as counsel. It will introduce participants to the theory and practice of negotiation and mediation.

Robert’s Rules of Order – Demystified

We will discuss the application of parliamentary procedure and Robert's Rules of Order in meetings. You will gain an understanding of rules and the principles that they are intended to uphold.

Family Violence Screening Training for Litigators and DR Professionals

This highly interactive two-day workshop is the only comprehensive family violence training available in BC. Featuring real case studies, personal stories, role-playing, coaching, and review of current literature, research, and statistics, this is a must-attend event for family dispute resolution professionals looking to meet their training requirements under the FLA.

Administrative Law Conference 2024 (IN-PERSON & WEBINAR)

It can be difficult to stay on top of all the changes happening in administrative law. This annual conference is your efficient solution to learning about recent decisions, legislative updates, and current trends in this complex practice area.

Family Law Mediation Fundamentals

The second course in CLEBC's Family Law Mediation curriculum, this program will give you a better understanding of the nature and source of conflict in the context of family dispute resolution and the role and objectives of a mediator.

Intermediate Family Law Mediation

The third course in CLEBC's Family Law Mediation curriculum, this program will give you a better understanding of family dynamics and power in mediation.