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The CCCA handed out a number of awards at its conference in Calgary earlier this month. There’s a new award from the Pro Bono Committee; the latest winner of the Legal Aid Leader award has been named; and don’t forget the deadline is coming up for the National Sections Council award.

Somewhere between staying in the dark, doing a lot of leg work yourself or being inundated with notifications from an overactive RSS feed there’s a sweet spot – a place to find all the top legal headlines of the day.

Across the country students are preparing for mock trials and debates, lawyers and judges are prepping for information sessions, and a lot of people are training for fun runs – it’s Law Day again!

The marquee event at this year’s CBA Legal Conference in August will give CBA members the chance to witness first-hand the kind of vibrancy and creativity that backstops legal innovation in Canada.

The Canadian Bar Association appeared before the Supreme Court of Canada on April 1, as an internevor in the University of Calgary appeal.

The CBA appeared before the Supreme Court of Canada in Lizotte today on behalf of the CBA, an internevor in the appeal.

The CBA supports the federal government’s financial commitment to access to justice and improvements the justice system contained in the 2016 federal budget. In particular, four areas will benefit from increased funding announced on March 22.

As part of the National Legislative Delegation Project (NLD), a group from the Vietnam Competition Authority and Vietnam Bar Federation met with Canadian officials and CBA members to gain a better understanding of Canada's competition law landscape.

Many of the provincial law societies are currently deliberating on whether (and if so, how) to implement some form of entity regulation in their jurisdictions.

The CBA joins the TRC in encouraging all levels of government, and other public and private institutions in Canada, to carefully consider the calls to action and to take appropriate steps toward reconciliation.