Tips for Firms and Member Organizations Seeking to Promote Inclusion and Diversity This list of specific tips is intended to be a brief follow up to the videos CBA has made available online. For a more comprehensive general discussion of diversity and inclusion, and for more information on promoting inclusion in law firms, please see CBA’s Equity and Diversity Guide.
Equality of Women in the Legal Profession A comprehensive teaching manual containing practical suggestions for conducting educational sessions for lawyers, with substantive background information for session leaders.
Contact List: Employment and Social Development Canada Contact List: Employment and Social Development Canada (Temporary Foreign Workers Unit)
Legal Health Checks Common law property At the end of a live-in relationship, there may be rights and responsibilities between spouses, even if you are not married. Your situation, and your deadline for acting, will depend on the law in your province or territory.
Legal Health Checks Preparing a will A will lets you make decisions that will be carried out after your death. If you die without a will, the laws of your province or territory will determine what happens to your assets. This checklist offers issues to keep in mind when preparing or updating your will.
Legal Health Checks Breaking up: parenting Encourages separating couples to consider the impact of their next steps on their children.
Conflicts of Interest Toolkit: Table of Contents These materials provide practical checklists and precedents that are intended to help lawyers to recognize, deal with and avoid conflicting interests.
Indigenous Exclusion / Resistance and the Convention on the Rights of the Child in Canada The CBA Child and Youth Law Section is pleased to announce Madison Thulien as the winner of the 2024 Child and Youth Law Section Student Essay Contest, for her paper entitled "Indigenous Exclusion / Resistance and the Convention on the Rights of the Child in Canada".
Winner of the 2019 English Langlois Prize Congratulations Beverly! Beverly Cheung of Osgoode Hall Law School is the winner of the 2019 CBA Business Law Student Essay Competition for her paper titled, Marketing an Unmarketable Product: The need for a less stringent cannabis legal framework in order to develop a sustainable licit market (paper only available in English).
Winner of the 2019 French Langlois Prize Congratulations Christine! Christine Chaussé is the winner of the 2019 CBA Business Law Student Essay-Competition (French) for her paper titled, “Rémunération des dirigeants - efficience des mécanismes de contrôle” (Executive Compensation – efficiency of checks and balances) (paper only available in French)