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Family law lawyers are frequently tasked with drafting, negotiating, or challenging agreements. Through the lens of common family law agreements, this program will address the following:

• The law relating to family law agreements
• Negotiation considerations
• Renegotiation considerations
• Enforcement of agreements
• Common clauses
• Tax implications
• Potential liability for lawyers and ethical considerations
• Differences between agreements made before marriage/cohabitation and agreements made after separation
• ADR considerations

Event Details

Time: 9 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Cost: $525

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Ploughshares Calgary Society invites you to join them on the evening of Nov 12th at 6:30 p.m. MST online via Zoom to learn the fundamentals, current issues and the obstacles of the ICC. This event will include a presentation, discussion, and audience Q&A.

Professor Mark Kersten of the University of Fraser Valley will provide an overview of the ICC including:

• its achievements and challenges;
• the Israel-Palestine conflict;
• US Sanctions;
• the Canadian position on the ICC and how Canada can support the ICC in its pursuit of justice; and
• what Canada can needs to do to help save it.

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If you are a legal professional who finds yourself missing opportunities to rest and not getting enough sleep, this workshop is for you. Please join KK Pinkowski and Michael Kahn, for this one hour dynamic presentation. This workshop is a collaboration of LAPBC, Alberta Lawyers’ Assistance Society and Lawyer Strong, Manitoba.

As members of the legal community have high standards and perfectionistic tendencies, they often find themselves billing long hours each day. This drastically impacts sleep and restoration time. This interactive workshop will explore ways to improve both rest and sleep.

Event Details

Time: noon
Price: no cost

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The Law Society of Nunavut is hosting an event for the launch of the Access to Justice Edmonton Resource Handbook.

The Resource Handbook is a tool to connect Nunavummiut to supportive resources in the Edmonton area while away from home. Similar Resource Handbooks have been created for other southern hub destinations, including Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal, Winnipeg and Yellowknife. A Nunavut Resource Handbook has also been developed to include resources available for all of Nunavut’s communities. These community-specific Resource Handbooks will be distributed within the network of organizations across the country that are assisting, or could assist, Nunavummiut travelling from the Territory to any one of the southern hubs mentioned above.

The Resource Handbook is an outcome of the LSN’s Access to Justice for Family Violence Prevention Project (2018-2022). Developed with support from the Government of Nunavut, the Resource Handbook is a community-based resource that contains easy-to-access, relevant and up-to-date information for front-line and community-level service providers who support Nunavummiut when away from home, including when dealing with situations of family or intimate-partner violence.

Event Details:

Date: Oct. 20, 2025
Time: 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Location: Arctic Journey Gallery – Telus World of Science 11211 – 142 St NW, Edmonton

The evening will include welcome refreshments and appetizers, dinner and arctic-focused event programming.

To attend, please RSVP through this web-invite by 12 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 17, 2025. Attendees are also welcome to bring a guest.

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This program will support lawyers in navigating civil litigation matters and will cover topics including: Pleadings Chambers Advocacy Less Frequently Used Rules of Court Strategic Questioning and Use of Answers Strategic Issues in Major File Litigation Overcoming Litigation Delay ADR Considerations This program may be beneficial throughout any stage of a law career. Lawyers seeking to develop excellence in the first five to seven years of their civil litigation practice will find this content especially beneficial. $ 485.00 CAD

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Additional information will be added when available.

 

$ 485.00 CAD

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Join us for a special memorial event honouring the life and legacy of Linda McKay-Panos, alumna and former professor at UCalgary Law.

The event will feature a conversation with Chief Justice Ritu Khullar, who represented Linda in a landmark disability rights case on accessible air travel. Additional reflections will be shared by friends and colleagues who knew Linda through her impactful work and advocacy.

Tuesday, October 14 | 12 – 2 p.m.
Bennett Jones Lecture Theatre
Murray Fraser Hall 2370

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Questioning is not just a formality; it’s a critical opportunity for you to uncover key evidence and lay the foundation for a strong case at trial.

This event is hosted by the Advocates’ Society. Designed for Alberta advocates, by Alberta advocates, this program will help you get the most out of the questioning process for your clients.

Learn how to utilize the questioning process to your advantage. Gain tips and strategies directly from judges and leading practitioners on gathering information, obtaining admissions, testing theories and assessing witness credibility.

Register for the morning only, featuring presentations and demonstrations by noted faculty. Or, stay for the afternoon hands-on skills workshop where you will get the unique opportunity to conduct a questioning examination in a safe learning environment and receive constructive feedback from skilled faculty.

Event Details

Time: 9 a.m.
Cost: $284.25 CAD

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Players de Novo is looking for members of the legal community, with or without improv experience, to audition for a new, original show. The show will be partially scripted and partially improvised, blending the wit and nuance of a written piece with the spontaneity and creativity of improv.

The “audition” will be a fun, group experience where you’ll play some of Rapid Fire Theatre’s favourite improv games. No prior improv experience is required – they’re looking for quick-witted, positive people who are willing to look a little silly. If you’re looking to grow your skills of taking risks, collaboration, listening, acceptance and positivity, this may be a good opportunity.

Selected performers will perform in the annual “Lawyer Play”, a fundraiser for Victoria School for the Arts and Rapid Fire Theatre. The cast will rehearse an original new semi-scripted play while also receiving a months-long improv training course based on Rapid Fire Theatre’s core curriculum. You’ll get a crash course in everything from the fundamentals of improv to the most advanced techniques.

Upcoming auditions are happening on Sunday, Oct. 5 at 2 p.m. at Rapid Fire Theatre. There is no cost associated with this event.

Email amy.lind@gov.ab.ca if you’re interested in auditioning, and include your year of call and place of employment.

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The Saint Thomas More Lawyers’ Guild of Calgary is pleased to invite all judges, lawyers, paralegals, assistants, clerks, and other members of the legal profession and related professions, as well as family and friends, to Calgary’s annual Red Mass, to be held on Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025, at St. Mary’s Cathedral. Bishop William McGrattan will preside, with a reception to follow in the St. Mary’s Cathedral Hall.

The featured guest speaker for the reception will be His Eminence Cardinal Thomas Collins. Cardinal Collins served as the Metropolitan Archbishop of Toronto from 2007 to 2023, the Archbishop of Edmonton from 1999 to 2006, and the Bishop of St Paul from 1997 to 1999. He was elevated to the rank of Cardinal by Pope Benedict XVI on Feb. 18, 2012, and served as a cardinal elector in the papal conclaves that elected Pope Francis and Pope Leo XIV.

Cardinal Collins will be speaking about lessons from the life and thought of St. Thomas More.

Event Schedule

• 4:30 p.m. Gowning of judges and lawyers (Note: gowning is not necessary to attend or join the procession)
• 5 p.m. Mass (open to all)
• 6–8 p.m. Catered reception featuring His Eminence Cardinal Thomas Collins
  The Red Mass is a Mass celebrated in honour of the legal profession as a vocation in the service of justice and the common good. It is an occasion for people employed in the administration of justice as judges, lawyers, paralegals, assistants, civic leaders, and law students of all faiths to celebrate the beginning of the new judicial term and ask for blessing, strength, and enlightenment in the pursuit of justice for all.

The tradition of the Red Mass began in the Cathedral of Paris in 1245. The Red Mass was first celebrated in England around 1310, where it is still celebrated annually at Westminster Cathedral. The Red Mass was first celebrated in Canada in 1896, and was re-instituted in Calgary in 2015.

The Mass is free and open to all to attend, including the general public. However, a ticket is required for those members and invited guests who want to attend the catered reception following the Mass. Each ticket to the reception comes with one complimentary drink ticket.

If you have any questions about the event, or require financial assistance to purchase a ticket to the reception, please contact the Saint Thomas More Lawyers’ Guild of Calgary through the event registration page or by sending us an email at calgary.stmlg@gmail.com.