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July 15, 2020
Applications Open for Assessment Developer and Reviewer Positions at CPLED
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...
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July 14, 2020
Change of Address: O’Brien’s Forms is Moving to Westlaw Next!
By Alan Kilpatrick, Reference Librarian Earlier this year, Thomson Reuters announced that the popular online version of O’Brien’s Encyclopedia of Forms was moving to the Westlaw Next (WLN) platform. Incorporating O’Brien’s content directly into WLN’s powerful platform offers enhanced searchability, usability, and integration for practitioners, researchers, and law librarians alike. You can check out the increased functionality you’re gaining through...
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July 13, 2020
Saskatchewan looking to big rooms to accommodate September jury trials
The Lawyer's Daily published an article about the Saskatchewan Court of Queen's Bench on working to accommodate jury trials in the fall.
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July 9, 2020
COVID-19 Legal News Roundup: July 9th Edition
By Alan Kilpatrick, Reference Librarian The COVID-19 pandemic, and its impact on the practice of law, is changing rapidly. We want to help you stay up to date with the latest news. Each week I aggregate the leading legal headlines on COVID-19 on the topics that matter to you: Access to Justice After the Pandemic: COVID-19 and racial justice |...
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July 8, 2020
Lex Electronica is now available on CanLII
CanLII is pleased to announce that the law journal Lex Electronica is now available in our commentary section. Lex Electronica is a publication of the University of Montreal’s Centre de Recherche en Droit Public. Created in 1995, Lex Electronica was the first online law journal to be published in French and one of the first in any language. Incidentally, its first issues were published online by...
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July 7, 2020
COVID-19 content on CanLII and how to find it
Since the start of the pandemic, the legal community and public at large have been observing how COVID-19 has affected the legal system and what the response has been. In fact, CanLII now has more than 2,290 pieces of content relating to COVID-19, which include at least 2,000 cases and 150 pieces of legislation. CanLII continues to update its collection...
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