Want your legal documents to look polished, consistent, and professionally formatted?

In this webinar, you will learn how to:

• Understand the differences between font, paragraph, and section formatting
• Use the format painter
• Insert symbols and create shortcut keys for the ones you use most
• Add non-breaking spaces and hyphens as well as understand when they’re appropriate in legal documents
• Modify paragraph alignment and line spacing and utilize automatic paragraph spacing
• Automatically hold titles and paragraphs together on a page to avoid page breaks occurring in unwanted locations
• Hold the lines of a paragraph (or footnote) together
• Create better page breaks and avoid an unwanted blank page in the middle of a document

Key takeaways:

• Easily fix rogue formatting in your legal documents
• Understand how to prevent awkward page breaks or blank pages from happening
• Skills to add symbols to your documents faster by using buttons or shortcut keys

Want to draft and revise legal documents faster and more accurately?

In this webinar, you will learn how to:

• Use Microsoft Word’s functions for reviewing documents on screen (split & new window, focus & immersive reader, and read aloud)
• Optimize how the Microsoft Word interface appears on your screen by modifying display settings
• Select text in new ways with advanced techniques
• Use the bookmark feature when drafting legal documents
• Use Microsoft Word’s advanced features for cut, copy, and paste (without creating a formatting disaster)
• Enable Microsoft Word’s multiple (24) clipboards
• Use sophisticated search techniques to find and/or replace text
• Customize the editor tool for enhanced spellcheck, auto correct, grammar check, and thesaurus

Key takeaways:

• Master Microsoft Word’s tools for reviewing documents without printing them so you can quickly and easily navigate long, complex documents
• Copy up to 24 different pieces of text and paste any of them in without re-copying anything
• Enhanced skills with editor tools (so you can stop converting (c) to © as well as add your own words to a list of commonly misspelled words)

Ever wonder how legal professionals can work securely and effectively in Microsoft Word?

In this webinar, you will learn how to:

• Meet your obligations under Code of Conduct rule 3.3-1
• Navigate security issues with metadata, encryption, and compatibility mode
• Use track changes to indicate your proposed changes to a document
• Add, resolve, hide, and delete comments in your document
• Run a comparison between any two versions of the same document to identify the differences between them
• Choose between a Microsoft Word and a PDF file (pros and cons of each)
• Add, manipulate, and remove watermarks in documents

Key takeaways:

•  Clarity and confidence regarding document security (and that you aren’t unwittingly sending damaging information to opposing counsel in your documents)
• Skills to effectively utilize tools such as track changes, compare documents, comments, and encryption

• Strategies for negotiating documents electronically to identify how another party (like opposing counsel) has edited your document

Want to know how to personalize Microsoft Word’s defaults and get the tools you need in just one click?

In this webinar, you will learn how to:

• Customize the interface for a legal user
• Change default formatting in new documents
• Fix default formatting in existing documents
• Customize Microsoft Word’s default template (Normal.dotm)
• Change Microsoft Word’s programmatical default settings

Key takeaways:

• Configure Microsoft Word’s interface and programmatical settings to suit legal users
• Easily identify and solve formatting issues

Legal Aid Alberta is hosting a free online session for the public, lawyers, immigration service providers and anyone helping someone with an immigration appeal.

This session will provide helpful tips on:

• When and how to contact Legal Aid Alberta
• How to prepare for your immigration appeal
• Best practices to work effectively with your lawyer

Whether you’re preparing for an appeal or supporting a client through one, this session will give you practical tools and insights to navigate the process with confidence.

When beneficiaries cannot be located, estate administration becomes significantly more complex. This webinar equips legal professionals with the tools needed to navigate these challenges effectively, with topics including practical strategies to locate beneficiaries, an overview of the applicable court procedures, and how to handle unclaimed property in Alberta.

Event Details

Time: 12 p.m.
Cost: $95

Learn more and register to attend. 

In criminal law practice, it is imperative that lawyers stay up to speed on law and procedures. Join esteemed faculty from the bench and bar to discuss relevant topics including:

• Section 276/278 applications
• Charter applications
• Voir dires
• Challenges for cause at jury selection
• Pre-trial conferences and how to make them more effective
• Criminal case management (Criminal Code s 551.1)
• KBAC/CAC

Event Details

Time: 9 a.m.
Cost: $545

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Gain practical insights into effective resolution discussions with the Crown. This webinar by the Legal Education Society of Alberta (LESA) will explore strategies for approaching negotiations, understanding the Crown’s perspective and advocating for fair and appropriate outcomes for your clients, with topics including:

• An overview of the role of negotiation in criminal practice and common matters that can be negotiated
• Tactical considerations as to when to enter into negotiations
• Preparing for negotiations (e.g. tools for understanding your matter and assessing when to approach the Crown)
• Strategies for effective advocacy in negotiations
• Common pitfalls and how to avoid them (e.g. avoiding misrepresentations or undue pressure, and confidentiality and disclosure issues)

Event Details

Time: Noon
Cost: $95

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Public Safety Canada is hosting a webinar to build awareness and share knowledge among criminal justice professionals, civil society organizations and other relevant multidisciplinary stakeholders on emerging threats for children online, as well as new technology in combatting this crime.

Presentations will include:

• The OCSE/Violent Extremism Nexus in Canada – Marc-André Argentino, PhD, Canada Centre for Community Engagement and Prevention of Violence, Public Safety Canada
• Extreme Sexual Violence Against Children Online: An Analysis – Alexandra Catanese, Manager, Cybertip.ca Operations, The Canadian Centre for Child Protection
• A Practitioner Perspective on Nihilistic Violent Extremism – Hana Hadzifejzovic, Project ReSet & T4C, Team Lead, John Howard Society of Ottawa
• Project Athena: Leveraging AI to detect unknown CSAM – Frances McAuley, Director of Product – Trust and Safety

Event Details

Time: 11:30 a.m. MST
Cost: None

Family Mediation Canada is hosting an upcoming session on key findings from the Department of Justice Canada’s 2025 National Family Law Survey, with a focus on how recent amendments to the Divorce Act are affecting family justice professionals across Canada. Participants will gain insight into the survey results, develop greater awareness of Justice Canada research and publications, and engage in discussion to interpret what these findings may mean for practice, policy and future areas of exploration.

Presenter

Bianca Stumpf
Research and Statistics Division, Department of Justice Canada

Event Details

Time: 11 a.m. MST
Cost: None