Family and other dynamics in estate matters can complicate disputes. This programs aims to equip Alberta lawyers with the tools and strategies that they need to successfully advocate for their clients and navigate estate matters through to resolution.

Key Takeaways:

• Understand key statutes, regulations, and rules
• Explore common types of estate disputes and practical considerations when dealing with them
• Identify procedural issues and develop strategies to address them
• Consider how ADR processes can support the resolution of estate disputes
• Examine ethical and professional responsibility obligations that frequently arise in estate disputes

The Law Society is hosting a webinar in partnership with Land Titles and Surveys Alberta on Tuesday, Feb. 17 at noon.

Join Lisa Chen, Executive Director of Land Titles and Surveys, as she shares updates to the land titles submission process and discusses the critical importance of ensuring accuracy in all submissions prior to filing. The Honourable Dale Nally, Minister of Service Alberta and Red Tape Reduction; The Honourable Mickey Amery, Minister of Justice; and Stacy Petriuk, KC, President of the Law Society of Alberta, will also provide opening remarks for the virtual event. There will be a question-and-answer period at the end of the presentation, time permitting.

This presentation is designed to be directly relevant to lawyers by providing practical insight into how land titles submission errors affect registration timelines and client outcomes, and how those risks can be mitigated through improved submission practices. It equips lawyers with up-to-date information on registry process changes, including queue management, refund processing, and Alberta Registries Land Online (ARLO) enhancements, while also outlining the transition toward a more electronic registration system.

Attending will help lawyers anticipate procedural changes, reduce avoidable delays and costs, and better advise clients as the registry continues to modernize.

Event Details

Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2026

Noon – 1 p.m.

Register for the webinar

Want to save hours of tedious work?

In this webinar, you will learn how to:

• Generate an automatic table of authorities with a provided sample appellate brief
• Control the formatting of a table of authorities
• How to fix a mistake in identifying a citation

Key takeaways:

• Learn how to do arguably the hardest task in Microsoft Word – tables of authority
• Easily control the formatting of a table of authorities
• Easily fix any mistake made while tagging citations for a table of authorities
• Learn all of the strange little rules that apply when generating a table of authorities

Do you know how to set up line numbers in pleadings?

In this webinar, you will learn how to:

• Set up line numbers in pleadings using a provided template
• Generate an automatic table of contents
• Control the formatting of a table of contents
• Create multiple tables of contents from different parts of a document

Key takeaways:

• Never manually type a table of contents again
• Easily control the formatting of a table of contents
• Learn the role that styles play in tables of contents

Want to master advanced numbering and cross-referencing in legal documents?

In this webinar, you will learn how to:

• Differentiate between multi-level lists and list styles
• Modify styles and attach paragraph numbers to them
• Create automatic cross references

Key takeaways:

• Learn the best way to set up paragraph numbering schemes, store them, re-use them, and share them with others
• Complete your styles knowledge by learning how to attach automatic paragraph numbers to styles so the paragraph numbering is bullet-proof
• Create cross references that automatically update if the document undergoes additional editing

Want to build reliable, professional numbering systems in your legal documents?

In this webinar, you will learn how to:

• Properly construct and apply different single or multi-level paragraph numbering schemes
• Modify numbering schemes already in a document

Key takeaways:

• Establish any type of single or multi-level automatic paragraph numbering scheme in a new document
• Identify how an existing numbering scheme has been established
• Learn how to impose an automatic numbering scheme on a document when paragraph numbers have been manually typed

Want to unlock the full power of Microsoft Word and take control of your document’s appearance?

In this webinar, you will learn how to:

• Differentiate between direct formatting and styles formatting
• Open and configure the styles pane to easily apply and modify styles
• Customize the default styles
• Understand the Normal style and why it is so important
• Identify and modify the styles that are affecting your document
• Hide irrelevant styles in your document
• Use the navigation pane
• Generate an automatic table of contents
• Import styles in a document

Key takeaways:

• Control the formatting in any document by using styles
• Fix Microsoft Word’s default formatting in new documents
• Navigate even the longest documents easily and quickly

Want to work faster, not harder, by automating tasks in Microsoft Word to save you time and hassle?

In this webinar, you will learn how to:

• Record macros and assign them to buttons and/or speedkeys
• Automate document generation with Microsoft Word’s mail merge function including how to fill in blanks, calculate text like verb conjugation and pronouns, and how to make text conditionally appear based upon your fact pattern

Key takeaways:

• Work efficiently by using macros to automate tedious tasks in Microsoft Word
• Answer a client’s name once and have it automatically show up everywhere else you need it
• Generate complex documents much faster by learning how to use Word’s built-in document automation functionality

Want full control over the organization of your legal documents?

In this webinar, you will learn how to:

• Use section breaks and determine which section breaks are relevant to legal documents
• Establish complex page numbering schemes
• Control headers and footers including how to set them up, make them consistent throughout the document, or make them different at certain points in the document
• Set up, control, and manage columns as well as how to keep them from affecting your whole document
• Change margins and orientation for the entire document, or for only part of the document

Key takeaways:

• Enhanced control over your document’s structure and layout
• Skills to manipulate pagination schemes, columns, margins, and orientation to suit your document

Want to master proper formatting techniques that keep your text aligned no matter what?

In this webinar, you will learn how to:

• Set and manipulate tabs
• Set up signature lines without using underscores or tables
• Set and manipulate four types of indents and learn how they differ from tabs
• Create clause libraries and learn how to insert clauses, phrases, signature blocks, acknowledgments, and other re-usable text into documents
• Insert and customize tables
• Add, manipulate, and format footnotes and endnotes

Key takeaways:

• Get your text to line up correctly, no matter what
• Add any clause or section of text you use often into any document that you’re editing with only 2 clicks (and without copying and pasting)
• Get tables, footnotes, and endnotes to behave with proper formatting
• Create proper signature lines