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Law Firm Management and Organization
Examine best practices, procedures, and tips for organizing and managing files from first considering prospective clients to finally closing a file when a matter is resolved.
Discover Code of Conduct and Law Society Rules that affect your filing processes, and discuss strategies for managing and organizing both paper and electronic files. Review file opening tasks (including conflict searches and client verification), how to identify critical time lines in each practice area, limitation systems, errors and omissions, and steps to properly transfer or close a file.
03/2023
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Written Advocacy – Preparing Persuasive Documents (On-Demand)
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Learn how to communicate more effectively by writing accessible, understandable, and persuasive documents. At its core, effective writing requires you to write for your audience, not for yourself. This on-demand program explains what this means and how to do it. The tips and tricks offered in these two online videos and course materials apply to any form of legal writing: drafting affidavits, statements of claim, mediation briefs, client reporting letters, and more.
One sneak preview tip – organization and visual presentation are critical. Use bullets, headings, and charts, to organize your document and to help the reader more quickly and easily follow your argument.
This on-demand program was originally presented as an in-person program in September 2014. Total running time is 2 hours, 30 minutes.
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Eugene Meehan QC, Supreme Advocacy LLP
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Hon. Justice M.B. Bielby, Court of Appeal of Alberta
Everett Bunnell QC, Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP
Jon Faulds QC, Field LLP
03/2023
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Develop a practical understanding of how to handle a Queen’s Bench civil case. Review pre-trial considerations, how to use a proof table to organize your evidence, and how to best introduce evidence at trial. Cover strategy for opening statements, examining a witness in chief and cross, and using expert witnesses.
This program uses a mock case and fact scenario to anchor discussion of the issues and demonstrate the practical application of the points being made. This resource includes written materials that can be downloaded as PDFS, videos of the mock case, and videos of seminar presenters, including interactive demonstrations and Q & A sessions.
03/2023
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Vagueness and Ambiguity in Contracts (On-Demand)
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As your first-year contracts professor surely told you, every solicitor’s nightmare is one in which their drafting earns them a permanent roasting from the bench. To prevent this unenviable result, many lawyers – young lawyers in particular– tend to rely on the safety of precedents, believing that un-litigated products from the past will surely pass further judicial scrutiny. Yet by their very nature, a precedent will be tuned and tweaked for specific situations by each lawyer using it, who will often leave vagueness and ambiguity in their wake for the next lawyer to wade through.
How do we reconcile the ease and relative safety of precedent usage with recent pushes from the bench, legal educators, and an increasing number of clients, towards clear and easy-to-understand language in contracts? This on-demand program points out common examples of the most prevalent pitfalls of using precedents – vagueness and ambiguity – and provides helpful techniques for spotting and correcting archaic and convoluted language, built into precedents over time, that confuses judges, lawyers, and clients alike.
This on-demand program was originally broadcasted as a webinar on May 27, 2020. Total running time is 51 minutes.
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Douglas H. Peterson, Douglas H. Peterson Professional Corporation
03/2023
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To See or Not to See: The Impact of Without Prejudice Offers to Settle on Future Costs Awards (On-Demand)
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At various points in the litigation process, clients often want to try to settle the dispute. Different situations may call for different solutions. Before embarking on a particular settlement path, lawyers should understand and consider the potential downstream effects of these efforts. Explore costs consequences of without prejudice offers to settle and Calderbank offers, as well as consider the possible repercussions of recent amendments to the Rules of Court.
This on-demand program was originally broadcasted as a webinar on November 19, 2020. Total running time is 1 hour.
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Alexander Yiu, Ackroyd LLP
03/2023
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The Expanding Meaning of “Other Cause”: Support Entitlements of Adult Children (On-Demand)
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Child support for adult children was once limited to cases involving ill or disabled children and those attending full-time post-secondary education. Those limits have been steadily eroded over the past two decades. Discuss the case law expanding the entitlement of adult children. You can no longer assume that an adult child who isn’t ill, disabled, or a student has no entitlement to support.
This on-demand program was originally broadcasted as a webinar on June 10, 2020. Total running time is 1 hour, 4 minutes.
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John-Paul E. Boyd QC, John-Paul Boyd Arbitration Chambers
03/2023
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Tax Issues when Buying or Selling a Business (On-Demand)
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When acting for clients who are buying or selling a business, lawyers need to be aware of situations that can result in negative tax consequences for their clients. Explore key considerations and potential pitfalls in this on-demand program.
Topics include assets vs. shares, holding corporations and pre-sale reorganizations, structuring the deal, tax clauses in acquisition agreements, and GST.
This on-demand program was originally broadcasted as a webinar on October 21, 2020. Total running time is 53 minutes.
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Ben Hudson, Hudson Law
03/2023
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Issues to Watch Out for in Residential Real Estate Transactions (On-Demand)
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Explore frequent issues in residential real estate. Discuss how to avoid problems and liabilities in acting for a buyer or seller in residential real estate transactions.
This on-demand program was originally broadcasted as a webinar on May 5, 2020. Total running time is 1 hour, 5 minutes.
Though we do our best to ensure quality, technology is not always 100% reliable. This recording contains a few seconds of minor audio glitches.
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Jeffrey V. Kahane, Kahane Law Office
03/2023
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IP Issues for Non-IP Lawyers: Understanding Your Client’s Intellectual Property and What to Do About It (On-Demand)
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Whether your client is a large energy company actively involved in research and development, a start-up microbrewery, or a small business selling t-shirts online, your client owns intellectual property. Businesses can create value by adopting an IP strategy that includes identifying their IP assets, determining whether to register rights in their IP, creating a plan to commercialize their IP, and monitoring and enforcing their IP rights. It is also important that businesses conduct the necessary inquiries and searches to evaluate the risk of infringing third party IP rights.
This program provides practical information so that you can understand the types of IP owned by your clients and the steps that can be taken to develop and implement an IP strategy. Explore the nature of the IP profession and some of the tools used by IP practitioners to assist their clients.
This on-demand program was originally broadcasted as a webinar on September 16, 2020. Total running time is 1 hour.
Though we do our best to ensure quality, technology is not always 100% reliable. This recording contains a minor audio glitch, we apologize for the inconvenience.
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Christine E. Hicks, Hicks Intellectual Property Law
03/2023
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Independent Legal Advice – Adjusting the Duty of Care to Different Transactions (On-Demand)
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The duty of care fluctuates from transaction to transaction when giving independent legal advice. One size does not fit all. Learn how to identify and set the obligation, and how to fix the commensurate fee. Explore how to sue lawyers who get it wrong.
This on-demand program was originally broadcasted as a webinar on December 7, 2020. Total running time is 1 hour, 22 minutes.
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John E.S. Poyser, The Wealth & Estate Law Group
03/2023
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Benefit and Credit Update (On-Demand)
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Review tax deductions, benefits, amounts, and credits as they relate to family law, with particular focus on support and legal fee deductions, child care expenses, and the Tax Court’s new approach to the Amount for Eligible Dependent.
This on-demand program was originally broadcasted as a webinar on July 28, 2020. Total running time is 1 hour, 38 minutes.
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Ken Proudman, Barr Picard Law
Radhika Gauthier, CPA, CA, Gauthier Professional Corporation
03/2023
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Tax Concepts and Planning (On-Demand)
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Learn about basic tax concepts, how the Income Tax Act classifies different sources of income in order to identify when an asset should be discounted for tax, how to minimize taxes when structuring a transfer of land or business in your family property settlement, the difference between tax credits, benefits, deductions, and amounts, and how changing parenting arrangements during the pandemic could affect their calculation.
This on-demand program was originally broadcasted as a webinar on July 21, 2020. Total running time is 1 hour, 28 minutes.
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Ken Proudman, Barr Picard Law
Darryl R. Antel, Felesky Flynn LLP
03/2023
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