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Is your Section having a conference this fall? Read on to see our list of upcoming conferences.

The CBA National office has one bricks-and-mortar address, but there are also a host of other places to find us online. Let us draw you a map of the high points.

The CBA, in cooperation with the Association of Legal Aid Plans of Canada, has developed six aspirational legal aid benchmarks aimed at providing guiding principles to achieve the goal of a national system of public legal assistance. So what comes next?

We urge the government of Canada to immediately cease the immigration detention of unaccompanied minors, children, and families, in order to halt the significant harm to children. Children should neither be detained, nor separated from their parents as a result of the detention of their parents. Community-based alternatives to immigration detention should be implemented immediately to protect the best interests of children and children’s right to liberty and family life.

The CBA brought together a team of lawyers with experience in the judicial discipline process and other professional discipline matters, including the chair of the Ethics Committee, to comment on the proposals. Their letter builds on a 2014 submission to the Canadian Judicial Council on the topic.

The CBA is saddened by the passing of Paule Gauthier, P.C., O.C., O.Q., Q.C on September 21. She served the Canadian legal profession, her country, and our Association well during her long and distinguished career.

What began as a PD session on dealing with unpleasant people has turned into the Solutions Series, an eight-webinar program offering lawyers practical tools for everyday problems – how to schmooze, how to negotiate successfully, even how to turn off that part of your brain that demands perfectionism in everything you do – and thus keeps you from ever completing a project.

From Vietnam to East Africa, from the Young Lawyers International Program to promoting the importance of the rule of law in sustainable development, the CBA International Initiatives is staying very busy.

The online self-learning course launched last year to help people in the legal profession identify mental health issues and find the resources they need has had more than 1,500 participants in its first year. The next step is to get the word out to law students and young lawyers.

The first issue of the Canadian Bar Review to be edited by our new co-editors from the University of Windsor is now online. The issue bridges academia and legal practice by shedding light on matters of importance to legal practitioners.