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  • 62613.01

    Running Your First Real Estate File: Purchases

    $65.00
    This paper explores the lifecycle of a residential real estate purchase file when acting for the buyer. It provides a broad overview with a focus on the pragmatic to help guide on issue spotting rather than addressing any particular issue. These materials were presented at LESA’s Running Your First Real Estate File: Purchases webinar on August 26, 2026.
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  • 62627.01

    Practical Tips for a Successful Litigation Practice

    $65.00
    This paper provides practical tips that newer lawyers and students-at-law can employ and integrate in the early years of their litigation practice to ensure success as they grow in their legal career. The tips are intended to apply whether your litigation practice is before the courts of Alberta or before regulatory and administrative tribunals and boards. These materials were presented at LESA’s Practical Tips for a Successful Litigation Practice webinar on August 18, 2026.
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  • 62625.01

    Corporate Law: Top Questions Asked by Clients

    $35.00
    What do corporate clients most often ask their lawyers, and what are they really trying to understand? These materials are designed for articling students and lawyers in their first five years looking to gain insight into common corporate law client questions, from incorporations and governance to financings and transactions. These materials were presented at LESA’s Corporate Law: Top Questions Asked by Clients webinar on August 12, 2026.
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  • 62598.01

    Agricultural Lending

    $65.00
    This paper is broken into 3 parts: crops and livestock – security under the Bank Act and Provincial Personal Property Security Legislation; land-related security – surface rights and supplemental security considerations; and enforcement – the farm debt mediation act and exemption laws. These materials are part of a collection presented at LESA’s Commercial Lending program in Edmonton on June 18, 2026.
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  • 62598.02

    General Review of Insurance for Commercial Lending

    $65.00
    One of the most overlooked and neglected areas in commercial lending is the requirement that counsel acting for commercial lenders are required to ensure that proper insurance coverage is in place prior to any funding taking place notwithstanding the nature and scope of any security. This paper explores common types of insurance coverage and requirements for any sort of funding involving the placement of security on a borrower’s or guarantor’s assets in support of the funding that is to take place. These materials are part of a collection presented at LESA’s Commercial Lending program in Edmonton on June 18, 2026.
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  • 62598.03

    Commercial Lending: Security Interests in Personal Property

    $65.00
    The paper explores the main types of security documents used in commercial lending, including general security agreements, mortgages, assignments, share pledges, and guarantees. Key considerations with respect to taking personal property security, including enforceability of security interests, perfection, conflict of laws, and priority rules. These materials are part of a collection presented at LESA’s Commercial Lending program in Edmonton on June 18, 2026.
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  • 62598.04

    Acting for the Borrower on a Secured Lending Transaction

    $65.00
    This paper explores the types of transactions most solicitors will encounter in a general commercial practice, while also touching on less common but increasingly relevant transaction structures such as club deals, syndicated facilities and lease financings. It outlines the usual course of events and the steps a borrower’s solicitor should follow from the moment the file arrives to closing, while also highlighting some of the unusual issues, steps, and procedures that may arise along the way, including where, practically speaking, they tend to occur. These materials are part of a collection presented at LESA’s Commercial Lending program in Edmonton on June 18, 2026.
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  • 62598.05

    Not So Fast: How Insolvency Impacts Debt Security

    $65.00
    Insolvency proceedings can significantly alter the effectiveness and priority of loan security through various mechanisms including statutory stays, Court ordered priming charges, and the reordering of creditor claims. This paper explores what happens to lender security once formal insolvency proceedings begin. It will illustrate how secured creditor priority can be altered by the restructuring processes, regulatory impacts, and judicial discretion. These materials are part of a collection presented at LESA’s Commercial Lending program in Edmonton on June 18, 2026.
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  • 62598.07

    Multi-Lender Situations in Commercial Lending

    $35.00
    This paper provides an introductory overview of two categories of multi lender/secured party scenarios: (1) co-lenders where the parties involved are sharing security and have a shared interest in the same financing and (2) separate situations where the lenders or secured parties involved have overlapping but different security or, in some limited cases, shared security but with different rights under the security and separate debt. In co-lending situations, it explores four main categories: participations, securitizations, clubs, and syndications. In situations with multiple lenders, the paper examines inter-lender agreements, postponements, subordinations, priority and standstill agreements, and inter-creditor agreements. These materials are part of a collection presented at LESA’s Commercial Lending program in Edmonton on June 18, 2026.
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  • 62589.01

    Intestate Estates in Alberta: What Every Alberta Lawyer Should Know

    $65.00
    As a lawyer in Alberta, it is important to know the implications of intestacy and how the law will apply in different scenarios. There are also practical and procedural considerations that must be accounted for if you are advising clients on intestacy matters. This paper explores the governing law, before discussing the three main ways that intestacy can arise, how the relevant law applies in those scenarios, as well as practical and procedural considerations for any lawyer that is advising on intestate estate matters. These materials were presented at LESA’s Intestate Estates: What Every Lawyer Should Know webinar on Juen 9, 2026.
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  • 62590.01

    “Hot Topics”: An Annotated Bibliography for Common and Emergent Issues in Estate Disputes

    $35.00
    These materials provide initial resources for both emerging and certain longstanding issues in estate disputes. The summaries touch on issues with accessing a deceased individual’s digital assets and accounts, a surviving partner’s claim against estates, transfers and gifts by the deceased, and the increasing use of artificial intelligence by parties and lawyers in litigation. These materials are part of a collection presented at LESA’s Estate Disputes program in Edmonton on June 4, 2026.
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  • 62590.02

    Common Types of Estate Litigation Disputes

    $35.00
    When preparing an estate plan, it is important to carefully consider how assets are structured, that one’s estate planning documents are up to date, easy to locate and were created without any uncertainty. This paper explores the common types of estate litigation disputes including will challenges; personal representative’s conduct and disclosure; support and maintenance claims; joint assets and resulting trusts; and enforceability of domestic contracts. These materials are part of a collection presented at LESA’s Estate Disputes program in Edmonton on June 4, 2026.
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