On-Demand Catalogue
Diversity on Tribunals 2025: Building your Application
Learn how to draw upon your experience, knowledge, and skills to become a tribunal member and how best to convey these in your application.
Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Series: People, Position & Power
Attend this session to uncover the impact your experience has on the people around you and how this understanding of yourself and others can help you build more effective client relationships.
Diversity on the Bench 2025: Building your Application
Learn about the day-to-day activities of a judge in Provincial and Supreme Courts, the skills and knowledge required, what to consider when applying to the Bench, and how applications are evaluated.
Adopt new tools from this workshop to maintain your well-being and continue to thrive in your career.
Opening Up About Mental Health
Open conversations about mental well-being are often hindered by stigma, misconceptions and the fear of judgment. To break down these barriers, leading lawyers share insights into their unique mental health journeys with the hope you can embark on your own path to well-being.
Your articles are just around the corner! Discover the secrets to standing out, managing your workload like a pro, and becoming the go-to person in your firm. With expert advice and insider stories, learn how to make a lasting impact early in your career.
Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Series: Practicing Law, Living Religion
Religious identity can have a significant influence on how lawyers do their jobs. Learn more about these experiences and the ways their unique perspectives can benefit the profession.
Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Series: Trans-inclusivity in Practice
This session delves into the unique challenges faced by transgender people and the pivotal role that lawyers can play from inclusive language to the simple changes we can make to improve a more equitable environment for this community.
Bridging the Justice Gap: Hackathons as Catalysts for Change
In this session, our speakers will share how hackathons contribute to user-centered and multi-disciplinary approaches that generate novel tools, strategies, and partnerships.
Access to Justice in the AI Era: Innovation vs. Risk
Separate hype from reality in this examination of the intersection of AI and access to justice. Participants will explore practical use cases and opportunities as well as risks and regulatory considerations for using AI.
Reimagining Justice Through User-Centered Principles
Learn from leading experts about the principles of user-centered design and how it can be applied to address real-world barriers, increase access to justice, and advance reconciliation.
Advancing Reconciliation: Integrating Indigenous Practices in Board Governance
Kwakwaka’wakw and Tlingit lawyer, Halie Kwanxwa’logwa Bruce, explores how to apply a reconciliation lens to engagement, project management, trust-building and conflict resolution.
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Revamp Conflict Resolution with Restorative Justice
Restorative justice is a transformative approach to conflict that aims to repair harm among individuals and the community. Expert speakers share considerations for restorative justice in both criminal and civil cases and offer specific scenarios where restorative justice has been applied.
Lawyering Skills
Considering a Career as a Judicial Justice?
Learn about the day-to-day activities of a Judicial Justice in Provincial Court, the skills and knowledge required, what to consider when applying, and how applications are evaluated.
Practice & Business Management
Advancing Reconciliation: Legal Impacts of False Claims to Indigenous Identity
Continue your reconciliation journey this Fall with the return of Dr. Darryl Leroux and Kirsten Barnes. In this session, speakers reveal the emerging issues facing lawyers and the courts in this area, including an analysis of the key factors and reasons used by the courts to approve or deny these claims in different contexts.
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Live Rebroadcast: Advancing Reconciliation 2024
In this rebroadcast, learn the basics of UNDRIP and the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act, and how this impacts your practice, whether you are a family law lawyer or involved with land development, or another practice area. This session will also explore the fundamentals of Indigenous identity, key issues related to false claims and what non-Indigenous and Indigenous lawyers can do to appropriately protect against this.
Northern BC Law Talks 2024 (On-Demand)
This On-Demand conference takes a deeper look into ethical and professional considerations for using AI in your practice, succession planning, and contemplated changes to the Federation’s Model Code.
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Diversity on Tribunals 2024: Building your Application (Webinar Repeat)
Considering a decision-making role in your legal career? This session offers guidance to build a successful set of skills and knowledge to be a tribunal member and how to convey that in the application. The case for increasing diversity on our tribunals is strong.
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Diversity on The Bench 2024: Building your Application (Webinar Repeat)
An effective justice system requires judges who reflect the diversity of our province. Are you thinking of applying now or in the future? Learn about the day-to-day activities of a judge in Provincial and Supreme Courts, the skills and knowledge required, what to consider when applying to the Bench, and how applications are evaluated. Our panelists of judges share their experiences to help you take your next steps.
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To my daughter: Resilience in the Face of Injustice (Webinar Repeat)
Join Rumana Monzur, counsel with the Department of Justice, and author, Denise Chong, for a conversation about the book, "Out of Darkness: Rumana Monzur's Journey through Betrayal, Tyranny and Abuse" (on sale April 23, 2024) which chronicles Monzur's coming back from a brutal domestic assault that left her blind. In sharing a story that spotlights the global issue of intimate partner violence, this session prompts a meaningful dialogue about the systems, values and institutions that enable and perpetuate violence and how to address the problem.
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Lawyer Well-Being: Concrete Strategies for Positive Change (Webinar Repeat)
We are happiest, healthiest, and most successful when we adopt healthy lifestyles and work habits. Long hours, demanding managers, bosses and clients, complex files, and difficult opposing counsel can be occupational hazards in the legal profession. Understanding how you respond to these challenges, and learning coping strategies to manage stress and anxiety, will help you build a flourishing career.
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Wills, Estates & Trusts Conference 2024 (On-Demand)
Seasoned experts explored critical topics such as such as managing inter vivos trusts, advanced tax issues, key case law developments and more.
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Town Hall with the Attorney General: The New Legal Professions Act (Webinar Repeat)
Hear directly from the Attorney General about the new Legal Professions Act and plans for a new regulator of lawyers, notaries, paralegals and others.
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Managing Risk for Lawyers and Law Firms: Cyber and Business Considerations (Webinar Repeat)
Join experts in legal business development as they explore trends in cyber and business risks. Learn how to develop risk management strategies and meet ever-evolving compliance requirements. Panelists review funds transfer fraud and how BC law firms can stay protected against FTF attacks. Gain the tools and resources you need to help mitigate events and exposure.
Through the Looking Glass: Independence & Regulation in BC Today (Webinar Repeat)
Lawyers, judges and the legal system have recently been under criticism. Elected officials are expressing their views about the outcome of court cases and the conduct of counsel through the media. Meanwhile, the provincial government has proposed significant changes to how the profession is regulated. And, the law society has been increasingly clear that their mandate is the protection of the public interest not the protection of lawyers' interests.
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Overcoming Thought Barriers in Practice - A Fireside Chat with Dr. Lisa Gunderson (Webinar Repeat)
Do you hesitate, get stuck or just avoid challenging conversations that can disrupt or dismantle inequity with clients or colleagues? Do you avoid prioritizing centering people from minoritized groups because you are afraid to perpetuate harm, or you are not sure what to do? Join this session and overcome your thought barriers.
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Technology & Practice Innovation: Future Proof Your Practice (Webinar Repeat)
In today's legal landscape, using multiple, disconnected software systems hold law firms back from being efficient and profitable. In this session, attendees learn how to harness the power of cloud technologies to become a productive and paperless office. David Brown will also share how they’ve used this technology to increase productivity and revenue in their firm.
Practice & Business Management
Practical Strategies for Powerful Writing (Webinar Repeat)
Want to learn simple ways of making your writing clearer and giving it better flow? Eager to harness sentence and paragraph structure to create emphasis, convey logic, and persuade effectively? Join Dr Lisa Surridge for this workshop and gain practical advice on how to improve your writing and refine your proofreading skills. All examples are anonymized samples drawn from legal documents.
Lawyering Skills
Youth Legal Needs and the Current Youth-Service Landscape in BC (Webinar Repeat)
Join Pro Bono Students Canada and Access to Justice BC to learn about post-COVID child and youth legal needs, how they are currently being met by youth services across the province, and how they could be addressed through systems change that supports child and youth meaningful participation, particularly in family and child protection matters.
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Gendered Aspects of Legal Aid (Webinar Repeat)
Learn about how empirical research has found that legal aid eligibility thresholds lead to disproportionate ineligibility of single women who are in poverty, compared to other specific groups, as well as about the application of Canada’s legal framework for equality and what both suggest in terms of program design and population-based access to justice.
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Bridging the Gap: Facilitating A2J by Van and Boat (Webinar Repeat)
Person-centred justice includes meeting people and populations where they are – literally! In rural and remote locations, access to a professional who can provide situation-specific legal information and advice can be difficult to come by and often leads to the development, continuation and exacerbation of legal and law related problems. Based on their outreach and understanding of local needs, two organizations have taken a mobile approach in different geographies and communities. Join this session to hear first hand about the creation and impact of the WellCoMs Mobile Van initiative in Guelph and Wellington County, Ontario, and the Making Waves initiative in and around Bella Coola, BC.
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Finding Justice: Challenges and Opportunities in BC's Legal Aid Landscape(Webinar Repeat)
Many British Columbians continue to face barriers to accessing legal aid, especially in family law. Our panelists discussed the current challenges and opportunities in family and civil legal aid in BC. As part of Access to Justice Week BC, this informative session highlighted what needs to be done to achieve positive change.
Professional Responsibility & Ethics
Lawyers as Employers: Lessons Learned and Best Practices (Webinar Repeat)
Managing your role as practicing lawyer and employer is no easy task in today’s legal workplace. Regardless of your law firm size, or how many law office professionals you employ, a key to the success of your practice depends on knowing how to create and maintain solid employment relationships. This 90-minute session explores the ins and outs of the ‘lawyer as employer’ role throughout the Employee Lifecyle.
Practice & Business Management
Privacy Law Conference 2024 (On-Demand)
The privacy landscape is constantly changing. The use of generative AI, forensic genealogy and aggregated data have introduced new privacy concerns. The Anti-Racism Data Act raises questions on how to meaningfully implement equity, diversity and inclusion with privacy in mind. This on-demand conference delivers key updates and invaluable knowledge from accomplished speakers to keep you ahead in your practice. Make the most of seven educational sessions led by leaders in privacy law, with a keynote presentation by Michael McEvoy, BC’s Information and Privacy Commissioner.
Beyond the ABC's: Trust Accounting for New Lawyers (Webinar Repeat)
Ask any lawyer and they will tell you that the one cardinal rule of trust accounting is this—it’s not your money! Success as an early career lawyer requires a solid understanding of how the rules and principles of trust accounting apply in practice.
Practice & Business Management
Restorative Justice in the Legal Landscape (Webinar Repeat)
Our speakers, Clare Jennings and Gillian Lindquist, discuss restorative justice in the context of the legal landscape. They will explain how to identify the right cases to achieve restorative justice and how to seek beneficial resolutions for clients such as criminal defendants and their victims.
Professional Responsibility & Ethics
Financial Planning for Early Career Lawyers (Webinar Repeat)
This workshop tackles two major financial worries for early career lawyers: should I pay off debt or invest in my future? You can do both. We’ll show you how.
Practice & Business Management
Taking the Nightmare Out of Networking (Webinar Repeat)
Now that you have found the job and are beginning to explore different practice areas of interest, your next step is to foster relationships within your legal community. And knowing how to set up and apply a framework to your networking approach is critical to making meaningful, long-lasting practice connections.
Practice & Business Management
Respecting and Preserving Indigenous Identities (Webinar Repeat)
Through a facilitated question and answer session, our esteemed panelists will address the changing dynamics of white identities (why do so many white people want to be Indigenous?), self-indigenization and settler colonial logics (how does self-indigenization fit into understandings of settler colonialism?) and the pushback (what can be done to stop self-indigenization?).
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Meeting Everyday Legal Needs: A View from British Columbia (Webinar Repeat)
This panel discussion will examine recent efforts in British Columbia to improve access to justice and meet everyday legal needs (Justice Development Goal #2). Among other things, this panel will discuss efforts to address legal services gaps, foster innovation, and expand the scope of legal aid in British Columbia.
Practice & Business Management
This panel will showcase the research of BC Access to Justice Centre for Excellence scholars, Rob Lapper, K.C., Michelle Lawrence & Michael Litchfield. They will share preliminary findings from their study on the application of the open court principle to virtual hearing processes in the administrative tribunal context. They will evaluate artificial intelligence as a tool for legal research and increasing access to justice, and they will identify opportunities for justice system actors to improve the potential of this tool through contributions to open access legal content.
Practice & Business Management
UNDRIP in your Practice (Webinar Repeat)
In this session, learn the basics of UNDRIP and the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act, and how this impacts your practice, whether you are a family law lawyer or involved with land development, or another practice area.
Professional Responsibility & Ethics
Diversity on Tribunals 2023 (Webinar Repeat)
Considering a decision-making role in your legal career? This virtual event offers first-hand experiences from tribunal members, and teaches you how to navigate the application process. The case for increasing diversity on our tribunals is strong.
Diversity on the Bench 2023 (Webinar Repeat)
Diversity benefits decision-making, prioritizes a wide range of experience and enhances public confidence in the judicial system as a whole. Learn about the day-to-day activities of a judge in Provincial and Supreme Courts, what to consider when applying to the Bench, and how applications are evaluated
The National Study on Wellness in the Legal Profession in Canada validated what many know to be true: lawyers in Canada face health challenges due to the structure of our profession. Following a brief review of the Report, Ms. Simmons will highlight recommendations to improve the circumstances in our profession.
Your Health, Your Practice: Lawyer Wellbeing in a Changing World (Webinar Repeat)
Prioritizing health and wellbeing is a significant issue for lawyers, law students and employers. The recent comprehensive National Study on Wellness in the Legal Profession sounds the alarm about the profession’s impact on mental health, and the urgency to respond in workplaces and the justice and legal systems themselves.
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EDI Series Part 3: Pathways to Lawyer Well-Being: Inclusive Environments Matter (Webinar Repeat)
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EDI Series Part 3: Pathways to Lawyer Well-Being: Inclusive Environments Matter (Webinar Repeat)
This session explored how the practice of law can have a disproportionate impact on professionals with visible and invisible disabilities, 2SLGBTQSI+ lawyers, and IBPOC lawyers, and how to establish more inclusive workspaces.
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EDI Series Part 2: Unconscious Bias in the Workplace (Webinar Repeat)
Unconscious bias can be detrimental to growing a diverse and innovative workforce. If everyone is the same, everyone will have the same ideas and come to the same conclusions. And that’s not how great businesses are built. In this session, we cover unconscious bias in the workplace – what it is, when it happens, and what strategies can be used to challenge the behaviour.
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Talent Management Series
What Lawyers Want: How to Recruit and Retain the Next Generation
Legal employers and lawyers each have expectations about their working relationship and this impacts how employers to recruit and retain legal talent. In this session, our speakers discussed how to develop a recruitment strategy that fits today’s market and how to retain lawyers for the long-term.
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EDI Series Part 1: Including Lawyers with Disabilities (Webinar Repeat)
More can be done to help legal employers and law firms include lawyers with disabilities and pave the way for a more diverse legal team and client service model. In this session, panelists share their experiences, insights and best practices.
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Knowing how to work collaboratively with a paralegal is critical to enhance the productivity and profitability of your firm. Paralegals bring experience and expertise in building client relationships and process management and can combine their knowledge of legal concepts with new and innovative legal technology tools.
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Innovating to Create Market-Based Solutions (Webinar Repeat)
Globalization is disrupting traditional legal roles and organizational structures and technology is reconfiguring how almost all services are delivered. Recognizing these trends, many legal practitioners and access to justice advocates have decided to innovate and implement market-based solutions to meet unmet legal needs in BC and Canada, in a sustainable way.
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Neurodiversity in Law (Webinar Repeat)
Access to Justice Centre for Excellence and CBABC hosted a panel discussion covering the competitive advantage of neurodivergent legal professionals, the practical challenges that neurodiversity presents in law school and law firm environments, and best practices for supporting thought diversity in law.
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Access to Justice: Whose Job is it Anyway? (Webinar Repeat)
What role do lawyers, notaries and paralegals have to play? The provincial government’s Intentions Paper on the regulation of lawyers and other legal service providers suggests that regulation changes are part of the solution.
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Access to Justice: Whose Job is it Anyway? (Webinar Repeat)
CBABC Professional Development Webinar Repeat
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Talent Management Series Part 1: Becoming an Articling Principal (Webinar Repeat)
Thinking about becoming an articling principal, but are not sure what’s involved? Our panelists go beyond the LSBC Articling Guidelines to help you uncover the knowledge, skills and practical experience needed to successfully supervise, train and mentor the next generation of lawyers.
Lawyering Skills
Career Starter Series Part 3: Demystifying the Partnership Track(Webinar Repeat)
Becoming a partner at a law firm is an exciting prospect for some associates. Others may be undecided on whether making partner is right for them. This session uncovers what it means to become a partner in various firm settings.
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Career Starter Series Part 2: Charting Your Career Path (Webinar Repeat)
Whether you have clear career goals, or on a windier path, this session is for you. This session will offer you support and guidance to chart a path forward to success, whether you are in private practice, in-house, at a government agency or even if you are considering leaving legal practice behind.
Lawyering Skills
Data, Drugs & Disorientation: Access to Justice Research from the Edge (Webinar Repeat)
Join the Access to Justice Centre for Excellence for a panel covering topics such as the use of data science to diagnose unmet legal need, law reform lessons from Canada’s shifting drug policy landscape, and the struggles of individuals navigating the justice sector’s online information labyrinth.
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Truth & Reconciliation Series Part 3: Building Business Relationships (Webinar Repeat)
This session explores how to identify and understand the governance structure that applies to the Indigenous community you are working with, including how to work effectively with Bands, Band Councils and Hereditary Chiefs. Through a case study approach, panelists talk about different decision-making processes and share practice advice and strategies.
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Career Starter Series Part 1: Building Your Professional Reputation (Webinar Repeat)
Your professional reputation is a significant factor in your success as a lawyer. Our speakers will help you navigate what professionalism looks like in practice. Learn how to develop business and practice-specific relationships so that you can build and maintain a strong professional network
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Working towards truth and reconciliation in practice means transforming Indigenous intercultural awareness training into new ways of working with Indigenous clients and communities. Our panelists explore some of the challenges with the current practice methods, in practice areas like family and criminal law, to help lawyers explore new approaches to practice and work effectively towards reconciliation.
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Truth & Reconciliation Series Part 1: Indigenous Laws in Practice (Webinar Repeat)
Our ability to work meaningfully and effectively with Indigenous clients and communities begins with a solid understanding of how Indigenous laws, legal orders, and principles intersect with the everyday practice of law. Our speakers will teach attendees how to identify and work with key resources and community networks to shift knowledge into practice to enhance a lawyer’s ability to work effectively towards reconciliation with their clients.
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Supreme Court of British Columbia Masters Chambers Pilot (Webinar Repeat)
"On August 15, 2022, the Supreme Court of British Columbia will launch the Masters Chambers Pilot to allow electronic submission of application records through Court Services Online for regular chambers. In the first phase, the Pilot will be available for matters 30 minutes or less at Vancouver Island registries.
In this webinar, Master Muir of the Supreme Court and members of Court Services Branch will talk about document standards, demonstrate use of the CSO platform for filing application records, and answer your questions."
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