CLEBC Update
New Book
Collaborative Practice: Deepening The Dialogue is the road map for family lawyers making the journey from traditional litigation to collaborative practice. A leader in the collaborative law movement, Nancy Cameron has written an essential resource for professionals who are practising in or making the change to collaborative family practice. In a thoughtful, humourous, and concise manner, she scrutinizes the landscape of traditional litigation-based family practice, and provides guidance on how to re-think personal and professional values, to develop the new skills required in collaborative practice, and to set up an interdisciplinary collaborative family practice. She also discusses some of the complex issues and challenges faced by collaborative practitioners.

Courses
Trial: From Theory to Verdict, Jan. 14, Vancouver
PPSA 2005: Primer and Workshop, Jan. 27, Vancouver
MBA Concepts for Lawyers, Jan. 28, Vancouver
Medicine for Lawyers, Feb. 3, Vancouver
Rule 18A Applications, Feb. 10, Vancouver (offered live, online and in video repeats)


The Law Foundation of British Columbia
Grants Approved
The Board of Governors of the Law Foundation of BC met on November 20, 2004. Chair Heather Raven is pleased to announce that funding totalling $4,126,200 has been approved for the following continuing programs:

Continuing Programs
$3,272,500 - Legal Services Society (Operating Grant)

$136,900 - B.C. Coalition of People with Disabilities (Advocacy Access Program)

$127,500 - UBC Faculty of Law (Scholarships and Projects)

$121,000 - Greater Vancouver Law Students’ Legal Advice Program (Operating Grant)

$103,300 - Downtown Eastside Residents’ Association (Advocacy Services Program)

$84,000 - UVIC Faculty of Law (Scholarships and Projects)

$65,500 - UBC Faculty of Law (First Nations Clinical Program)

$65,000 - Law Society of B.C. (CANLII Virtual Law Library)

$60,800 - Law Courts Education Society (Northern Public Legal Education Program for First Nations Communities)

$54,600 - Law Foundation Lay Advocacy Education and Training Fund (Education and Training For Law Foundation-Funded Lay Advocates)

$20,800 - B.C. Freedom of Information and Privacy Association (Law Reform/Public Legal Education Program)

$14,300 - Debate and Speech Association of B.C. (Law Foundation Cup Debates)

Funding up to $170,000 was approved for the following new two year project grant:

Project Grant
$170,000 - Pro Bono Law B.C. (Operating Expenses)

These articles were published in the December 2004 issue of BarTalk. © 2004 The Canadian Bar Association. All rights reserved.