CLE Update
Family
Attend Asset Issues for Family Lawyers on February 21, 2000 to learn about real property transactions, trusts, bankruptcy, corporate matters, income tax, conflicts of law, and more family asset matters. Pension Law for Family Lawyers, a half-day course on February 22, 2000 will give an essential update of case law and legislative developments.

Litigation
Back by popular demand--Killer Cross-Examination on January 20, 2000. Plus, NEW this year on January 21, Advanced Cross-Examination Skills: Sequences. Both courses taught by the sought-after teaching team of Roger Dodd and Larry Pozner.

Tax
Tax Update 2000 for non-tax lawyers. This half-day course, January 28, 2000 is designed to reflect a non-technical approach to current tax issues including practical suggestions, identifying pitfalls, and checklists.

Dispute Resolution Curriculum
New CLE courses include Beyond Advanced Civil Mediation: Professional Mediation Skills, February 9–11, 2000 and Power in Mediation, on “power over”, power grabs, dirty tricks and intransigence, February 7 & 8, 2000.

New Publications
Desk Order Divorce – An Annotated Guide
Step-by-step guide to putting together successful desk order divorce applications, and disk including annotations and sample provisions for each document that must be submitted with the application.

British Columbia Court Rules and Forms 1999-2000 on Disk
Includes all court forms from both the Supreme Court and Court of Appeal, the full text of the consolidated rules from both levels of court, and a convenient, up-to-date print consolidation of the rules and forms.

Annotated Guidelines & Family Practice 1999-2000
Current to September 1, 1999, featuring the Child Support Guidelines, case annotations to the Child, Family and Community Service Act. Also included is the full text of the Rules of Court (including Rule 60D), the new Provincial Court (Family) Rules, updated consolidations of the Family Relations Act, the Divorce Act, and over a dozen other statutes, rules, and regulations.

Contact CLE Customer Service at 1.800.663.0437, or visit www.cle.bc.ca.


The Law Foundation of British Columbia
Graduate Fellowships 2000/2001
The Law Foundation of BC awards up to four graduate fellowships of $12,500 each on an annual basis. The next deadline for applications is Wednesday, January 5, 2000 for the 2000/2001 academic year.

To be eligible, an applicant must be pursuing full-time graduate studies in law or a law-related area at a recognized university in Canada, the United States, or abroad. Applicants must be residents of British Columbia, or graduates of a BC law school, or members of the BC Bar. The Law Foundation Graduate Fellowship is not available for the graduate program at UBC as the Law Foundation makes a separate grant to this program.

To receive an application form please contact the Law Foundation at 1340-605 Robson Street, Vancouver, BC V6B 5J3 or call 604.688.2337 or email lfbc@telus.net.

These articles were published in the December 1999 issue of BarTalk. © 1999 The Canadian Bar Association. All rights reserved.