Women in Law Leadership Education Program

June 16, 2021

Diversity and Inclusion in the Courtroom Webcast

June 14, 2021

National Study of Well-being of Legal Professionals Launched

June 10, 2021

Message from Dr. Nathalie Cadieux, principal investigator and associate professor at Université de Sherbrooke: Dear Colleagues, I am writing to invite you to participate in a unique research study on the mental health and well-being of legal professionals in Canada. The study has been developed by me and my research team at the Université de…

June 2021 Board Recap Video

June 10, 2021

In our June 2021 edition of the Bencher Recap video, Law Society of Alberta President, Darlene Scott, QC, and President-Elect, Ken Warren, QC, discuss: the extension of our virtual hearing pilot project; the approval of the development of a training course for all principals which will establish a baseline for consistency and quality assurance in…

How to be an Effective Ally

June 09, 2021

Statement Regarding the Kamloops Indian Residential School

June 08, 2021

Learning that the unmarked burials of 215 Indigenous children were revealed at the site of a former residential school in Kamloops is devastating. Sadly this news does not come as a shock, as Indigenous people across the country were already well aware of such grave sites. This is another stark reminder that work on the…

Improving the Principal and Articling Student Experience

June 08, 2021

In 2019, we conducted surveys of articling students, new lawyers, principals and mentors to better understand the current state of the articling system. The results raised concerns about the inconsistency of mentorship students receive, with 51 per cent of new lawyers stating they lacked confidence and felt only somewhat prepared or unprepared for entry-level practice….