A warm welcome to all members of our Section. I am honoured to serve as your Chair for the 2024-2025 year.
Small, solo and general practitioners form the largest group of lawyers in the CBA, and a primary focus of our Section this year is to provide programming of general interest to you regardless of the province you practice in or your specific area of practice. With this in mind, we are working on offering a PD session on Networking in spring of 2025. Stay tuned for more information.
We are also planning on offering brown bag events on other topics of interest to our members through the PD Committee. I encourage you to share your ideas and suggestions on topics.
Another area of focus for our Section in the upcoming year is to increase membership engagement and communication.
PLEASE GET INVOLVED:
- Send us ideas for activities and initiatives that YOU would like to see from the Section.
- Submit a member article.
- Submit articles and blog posts to our LinkedIn page.
JOIN the Section Executive as a Member at Large. Send us your resume and tell us why you would like to join the Section.
I am also excited to announce that the Section is actively exploring opportunities to collaborate with the Solo, Small Firm and General Practice Division of the ABA (the counterpart of our Section in the ABA) to present joint webinars as well as participate in events at the ABA Annual Meeting to be held in Toronto in August 2025.
Together with the Section Executive, I look forward to working with you over the coming year. If you have ideas for new initiatives, would like to take a leadership role in the Section, or would like to participate in any of our current initiatives, please contact us.
I also take this opportunity to say thank you to Randall Osgood, Past Chair, for his leadership over the past year.
Regards,
Heather Hettiarachchi
Chair, Small, Solo & General Practice Section 2024-2025