Chambers Advocacy Workshop 2024 (CPD 384)

As we have passed the deadline, please contact [email protected] for registration inquiries.
The cancellation deadline is February 22, 2024. Once the workshop is full, please contact [email protected] to be added to the waiting list.

Qualifies for 11 CPD hours, 2 of which qualify for Ethics

The Chambers Advocacy Workshop returns for 2024!

Registration deadline: Feb 15, 2024.
Limited to 24 registrants.
Venue – TCU Place, 35 – 22nd Street, Saskatoon.

Once the workshop is full, please contact [email protected] to be added to the waiting list. Preference is given to lawyers with 10 years or less experience at the Bar. Questions regarding year admitted to the bar and number of chambers appearances to be completed with registration. For additional information, please view the brochure.

No matter what your level of trial experience or ability, you will benefit from the opportunity to access the knowledge and expertise of our faculty of trial judges and accomplished courtroom practitioners. Develop exceptional family law Chambers advocacy skills and receive constructive feedback in a small group setting. Learn from your own performances, that of the other participants, and the faculty demonstrations. This workshop specific to family law provides an opportunity to hone your written and oral skills in a number of exercises, including notices of application, draft orders, Chambers appearance memos, affidavits, memos of law and oral submissions. Don’t miss this opportunity!

Workshop Features include:

-Work in small groups: Faculty-to-student ratio of 8 instructors to 24 students
-Learn without the burn: Concentrated practice of your advocacy skills in a supportive non-threatening environment
-Faculty of experienced judges and lawyers: Access the skills and knowledge of experienced trial judges and some of Saskatchewan’s finest courtroom practitioners
-Current Saskatchewan-specific curriculum: Exercises will be drawn from a family law fact pattern which will address parenting issues and support (income determination, child support and spousal support). The exercises will develop your skills in oral submissions as well as writing notices of applications, draft orders, Chambers appearance memos, affidavits and memos of law. The fact pattern and exercises have been prepared locally by our Workshop Planning Committee ensuring the content is relevant and current.

Guest Speaker
The Honourable D. L. Wilson (Former Court of King’s Bench – Family Law Division, Saskatoon)

Faculty
Chair: Sean Sinclair (Robertson Stromberg LLP, Saskatoon)
The Honourable Justice F. N. Turcotte (Court of King’s Bench, Saskatoon)
The Honourable Justice G. V. Goebel (Court of King’s Bench, Saskatoon)
The Honourable Justice D. J. Brown (Court of King’s Bench, Regina)
The Honourable Justice C. M. Richmond (Court of King’s Bench, Regina)
Greg Walen, K.C. (retired from Scharfstein LLP, Saskatoon)
Sherry Fitzsimmons, K.C. (McDougall Gauley LLP, Saskatoon)
Christine Hansen-Chad (OWZW LLP, Regina)