2023

The CBA’s essay contests can help you build your profile within the legal community, connect with senior members of the bar, and hone your research and writing skills. And for the best submissions, we are awarding $250 - $2,500 in cash prizes. See what deadlines are fast approaching.

The Skilled Lawyer Series is back with two streams to help you develop skills or hone the ones you already have. The first stream, beginning Jan. 30, is all about interpreting financial statements; stream two, which kicks off on Feb. 15, is about drafting legal documents.

Planning a trip south on March break? Check out “Travelling with a child?” It’s one of three new Legal Health Checks offering guidance to clients on legal issues.

Candice Pollack and Nicolas Joubert attended the CBA Wellness meeting in Winnipeg last October on behalf of CBA Young Lawyers. They’ve written about their experience.

The CBA Competition Law Section is anticipating another active and exciting year. Here’s a look at what it’s been doing and what’s in store.

This year’s Immigration Law Conference will consider Canadian and global trends in immigration law.

A new chapter on election financing has been added to the course book “Global Corruption: Law, Theory and Practice” which is available on the CBA website. The CBA’s Anti-Corruption Team sponsored and reviewed the first edition of the book written by Professor Gerry Ferguson at the University of Victoria.

Susan Ursel and co-counsel appeared before the Supreme Court in December on behalf of the CBA, which was intervening in the TWU case. Former CBA President Eugene Meehan, who was also in the room, asked her to write about her impressions of the day.

Kelly McLaughlin, a CBA member from the Northwest Territories, participated in the November regional forum, and shares some of her thoughts about it.

If you’ve been thinking you’d like to become more involved in shaping the CBA and its message, here’s your chance. Over the next few months you’ll have the opportunity to try for a spot on the Board of Directors, for places on Board Committees and Subcommittees, and/or on Section executives.