Dates: October 25-30, 2021

Venue: Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT)  

Price: $2,995 + GST

Develop a confident, professional courtroom presence by exploring every aspect of trial and hearing work. LESA’s Intensive Advocacy course is an intense, learn-by-doing program that offers an incomparable opportunity to develop skills as an advocate. The course couples continual performance with rich performance feedback. With the aid of brief faculty lectures and faculty demonstrations, attendees perform drills and exercises designed to hone critical advocacy skills. The course focuses on four key competencies designed to help attendees develop and perfect their advocacy skills: case analysis, storytelling, evidence, and courtroom decorum. On the final day of the course, attendees integrate these competencies in a simulated trial or administrative hearing.

This program has limited enrollment and is sold out.

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*Please Note: Program formats and dates are subject to change depending on the COVID-19 situation at the time of a program running. We are committed to ensuring the health and safety of all attendees, volunteers, and staff (and their families) and will follow all provincial and local public health regulations. We have instituted a mandatory COVID vaccination policy for this program. For more information, visit LESA.org/covid19 

Chair

Judge S.L. Corbett, Provincial Court of Alberta 

Team Leaders

Judge J.L. Dixon, Provincial Court of Alberta 

Mona T. Duckett QC, Dawson, Duckett, Garcia & Johnson 

Tim Mavko, Reynolds Mirth Richards & Farmer LLP

Justice R.E. Nation, Court of Queen’s Bench of Alberta 

Judge S.E. Pepper, Provincial Court of Alberta 

William W. Shores QC, Shores Jardine LLP 

Guest Instructors (Monday/Tuesday)

Rodney C. Fong, Alberta Ombudsman and Office of the Public Interest Commissioner 

Danielle E. Green, Crown Prosecutors’ Office 

Tom McCartney, Alberta Securities Commission 

Rob D. McDonald QC, Bennett Jones LLP 

Brent W. Mielke, MLT Aikins LLP 

Ryan K. O’Fee, O’Fee Law 

Jon P. Rossall QC, McLennan Ross LLP 

Andrew P. Wilson, Jensen Shawa Solomon Duguid Hawkes LLP 

Guest Instructors (Wednesday/Thursday)

Judge E.J. Tolppanen, Provincial Court of Alberta 

Paul M. Bourassa, Bourassa Law & Strategic Services 

Melissa N. Burkett, Alberta Justice and Solicitor General 

Kate L. Hurlburt QC, Emery Jamieson LLP 

Elizabeth Iredale, Alberta Justice – Social Enhancement Legal Team

Linda A. Maj, Department of Justice Canada 

Thomas P. O’Leary, Dentons Canada LLP 

Darren J. Reed, Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP 

Roger Smith, Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP 

Alexander Yiu, Ackroyd LLP 

Guest Instructors (Friday)

Paul M. Bourassa, Bourassa Law & Strategic Services 

Tom McCartney, Alberta Securities Commission 

Ryan K. O’Fee, O’Fee Law 

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LESA wishes to also thank the guest judges and guest administrative panel members assisting with the moot trials and hearings on Saturday: 

Justice Anne Kirker; Justice David A. Labrenz; Justice Bryan E. Mahoney; Justice E. Jane Sidnell; Justice W.P. Sullivan; Judge A.J. Brown; Judge P.J. Mason; Judge K.R. McLeod; Judge J.J. Ogle; Judge G.D.M. Stirling; Grace Brittain; Susan E. Fisher; Anne Michaud; Robert J. Mueller; Peter A. Verschoote 

LESA has secured a special rate for attendees of the 38^th Annual Intensive Advocacy program at the Holiday Inn Express & Suites Calgary NW (2373 Banff Trail NW).

A special rate of $114.99 plus taxes per night for a “One King Bed Suite” is being offered until September 24, 2021 or until the room block has been sold out. This room rate includes parking, Wi-Fi, and breakfast. This property is less than a five minute drive from SAIT and is also on the C-Train line which stops at SAIT.

Please click here to contact the hotel directly to make your room reservation or call 587.390.6100 and mention the group name “Intensive Advocacy”.

Hotel reservation does not constitute registration in the program. Guests will be responsible for all room charges. Cancellation charges will apply after 6:00 PM five days prior to arrival.