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The Canadian Centre for Professional Legal Education (CPLED) received feedback from students of the challenges they experienced balancing competing priorities between their Bar admission program and their articles. To address this concern and offer students and firms greater flexibility in selecting the program delivery style that best suits their needs, CPLED is adding a full-time version of the Practice Readiness Education Program (PREP),...
Read More +From the Canadian Centre for Professional Legal Education During the summer of 2021, we piloted the Accelerated Practice Readiness Education Program (PREP) to a small group of students. Accelerated PREP is a 14-week condensed version of the nine-month PREP. The pilot program was a success and CPLED is now in the process of collecting stakeholder feedback to determine interest for...
Read More +Registration for the June 2021 intake of the Practice Readiness Education Program (PREP) will open on Wednesday, April 7, 2021, at www.cpled.ca. At the time of registration, students will select their desired schedule for phases two and four of PREP. Please note the schedule is subject to change and enrollment into a desired schedule is subject to availability. Review the PREP 2021 schedule now to get...
Read More +The next offering of the Legal Research and Writing (LRW) course from CPLED begins on Tuesday, April 6, 2021. The course is available to all NCA applicants who have been issued an Assessment Report from the Federation of Law Societies of Canada, as an optional learning tool. The course is considered to be a useful tool in preparing students to write...
Read More +Join presenters, Erica Green, Acting Education Manager, Andrea Rodic, Program Manager and Eric Pye, Student Services Advisor from the Canadian Centre for Professional Legal Education (CPLED) as they provide an overview and registration information about the upcoming 2021/2022 Practice Readiness Education Program (PREP). Register here to attend this webinar on Thursday, February 25, 2021 from 11 a.m. to noon MT.
Read More +Are you a principal, legal recruiter, new lawyer (called in the last three years), or a PREP student? The Canadian Centre for Professional Legal Education (CPLED) wants to hear from you. CPLED is looking to gather input from stakeholders on the interest of a compressed full-time version of the Bar admission program, the Practice Readiness Education Program (PREP). Traditionally the...
Read More +Have you ever wondered what goes into training a lawyer for a client interview? We’re recruiting Simulated Clients to help train future lawyers in Canada in client interviewing. Simulated Clients will be interviewed by students via video chat and will assess the student’s performance using a standardized competency-based rubric. Click here for more information
Read More +Developing the lawyers of tomorrow requires a team of talented and experienced legal professionals. The Canadian Centre for Professional Legal Education (CPLED) is recruiting lawyers with five or more years of experience who have a background in Business Law, Criminal Law and/or Family Law for various roles to help deliver the Practice Readiness Education Program (PREP), the new Bar admission...
Read More +Assessment Developer An Assessment Developer is a lawyer who is experienced in a practice area (Business Law, Criminal Law, Family Law, Real Estate and/or Civil Litigation) who will work with CPLED staff to develop simulated learning experiences that achieve the skill development required for students to be called to the Bars in Alberta, Manitoba, Nova Scotia, and Saskatchewan. Assessment Developers...
Read More +The Law Society is pleased to honor each of Kayla Romanow and Darca Tkach with the Award of Distinction. Kayla and Darca achieved the highest marks of students registered in the 2019-2020 CPLED Bar Admissions Program. Kayla Romanow attended law school at the University of Saskatchewan’s College of Law. Prior to law school, Kayla received her Bachelor of Business Administration...
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