Legal Skies podcast episode 3 – Access to Justice Week 2019

In our latest podcast, we discuss Access to Justice week. In its third year, Access to Justice Week (from Oct. 20 to 26) provides opportunities to engage in conversations about access to justice and highlight initiatives aimed at improving access to justice in Saskatchewan. The Law Society communications specialist, Julie Sobowale, and Director of Legal Resources and Communications, Melanie Hodges...

Legal Skies Podcast Ranked in Top 10

The Law Society is proud to announce that our newly launched Legal Skies podcast is ranked number 7 out of 123 podcasts in the non-profit category on Apple Podcasts. Please view our two offerings and help us get into the top 5! S1E1: Professor Keith Carlson – Gladue Rights DatabaseS1E2: Stan and Nikki Johnson – Resilience Training Our next episode...

Family Law Clinics: Prince Albert

Gladue Rights Research Database Free and Open

The Gladue Rights Research Database provides lawyers, researchers and others with instant access to the insights and conclusions of more than 500 academic works related to the history of settler colonialism in Saskatchewan. It also includes a large and growing body of oral history resources and key archival documents. The database, which was officially launched last May and was supported by...

Call to Action: Trusted Intermediary – Legal Information Network (TI-LI) at CALL Conference

By Melanie Hodges Neufeld, Director of Legal Resources and Communications  One thing I have discovered over the last few years is if you want to develop an innovative project, enlist librarians. I have had the privilege of working with extremely knowledgeable library staff at the Law Society and through the Saskatchewan Access to Legal Information Project (SALI). Librarians play a...

University of North Texas Open Access Symposium 2019

By Melanie Hodges Neufeld, Director of Legal Resources and Communications  The tenth annual University of North Texas (UNT) Open Access Symposium was held May 17-18 at UNT Dallas College of Law. The theme this year was “Is Open Access an Answer for Access to Justice?” and featured presentations and interactive sessions led by legal scholars and practitioners from Harvard, Duke,...