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From The Law Foundation of Saskatchewan The Law Foundation of Saskatchewan (LFS) has issued a special call for organizations to submit one-time grant proposals which meet the legislated mandate of the Foundation. This means the proposals must be for the purposes of legal education, legal research, legal aid, law libraries and law reform. The successful applicants will be funded under a Legacy Grant Program which has...
Read More +From the Canadian Institute for Advanced Legal Studies The Canadian Institute for Advanced Legal Studies annually awards two scholarships for the LLM degree at the University of Cambridge, England. The Right Honourable Paul Martin Sr. Scholarships cover full tuition at the University of Cambridge, a monthly living allowance, the Immigration Health Surcharge, and one return airfare, subject to any other...
Read More +Michael W. Milani, K.C., will deliver the Estey Chair in Business Law Lecture on Monday, October 17, at noon in the MLT Aikins Lecture Theatre (Room 150) at the College of Law. The title of this lecture is Saskatchewan’s Sophisticated Commercial Law Landscape: A Practitioner’s Perspective. For more information on this event, please see the attached poster or visit law.usask.ca. If you have...
Read More +By Alan Kilpatrick, Co-Director, Legal Resources Discover (or rediscover) the Canadian Legal Information Institute website (CanLII.org) in this free webinar opportunity and earn one free CPD hour! Discover YOUR CanLII (CPD 340) October 24 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm CST FREE, Qualifies for 1.0 CPD Hour Legal Resources Co-Directors Alan Kilpatrick and Ken Fox will go through CanLII’s most...
Read More +The Estey Symposium on Commercial Law is a one-day event hosted by Michael W. Milani, KC, Estey Chair in Business Law at the College of Law, University of SK. This event will be held on Thursday, November 17, 2022, in the MLT Aikins Lecture Theatre (Room 150) at the College of Law (15 Campus Drive). To view the event...
Read More +The Law Reform Commission is currently consulting on Reform of The Class Actions Act and is seeking input from the bar, including: Is The Class Actions Act furthering the three objectives of class actions: (1) access to justice, (2) judicial economy, and (3) behaviour modification? Is The Class Actions Act in need of reform to better reflect current class actions...
Read More +As hot it is these days, fall is just around the corner, along with the new CPD season. Check out our fall schedule below! A few highlights To start us off, Barron Henley returns Sep 14th and 15th for another technology workshop. He’ll be covering Inbox Ninja, A Lawyer’s Guide to PDFs and Excel Power Tips for Legal Users in a virtual format. We’ll all be able to follow along on our own computers, which should...
Read More +By Alan Kilpatrick, Librarian The Law Society team will be presenting later this week at the joint 2021 Saskatchewan/Manitoba Libraries Association (SLA/MLA) Virtual Conference: Legal Information Access: Helping Libraries Help the Public Wednesday, June 16th @ 10:30am -11:30am How can we help you help your patrons? The Law Society of Saskatchewan legal information experts are on hand and ready to...
Read More +The COVID-19 pandemic has affected every aspect of the legal profession especially the admission of new lawyers. Several U.S. states and Canadian provinces are grappling with how to accommodate for remote testing so that law school graduates can be admitted to practice law. Instead of a bar exam, this year the Canadian Centre for Professional Legal Education (CPLED) launched the...
Read More +As the Canadian Centre for Professional Legal Education (CPLED) continues to develop and prepare to launch the new Practice Readiness Education Program (PREP), refinements to their processes are ongoing and this has resulted in minor changes to the previously released schedule. CPLED has been consulting with key stakeholders across participant jurisdictions to ensure they are delivering the highest quality...
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