Below are some of the most recent LSO CPD materials added to the library collection and are now available for free online! Come by the library to read these in print or click on the linked titles below to download the articles from AccessCLE.

18th Family Law Summit (March 20, 2024)

• Signs of conflict that place children at risk of emotional harm in separation & divorce / Triena McGuirk
• Ask the experts : ten tips for client engagement / Bill Eddy
• Family violence in racialized families : intersectional impacts of culture, community, and the role of the extended family / Deepa Mattoo, Archana Medhekar & Maneesha Mehra
• Pensions update checklists and important takeaways – an actuary’s perspective ; Settlement options involving pension division / Kelley McKeating

Wills and estates refresher 2024 (March 27, 2024)

• The initial client meeting, file management, and digitizing your practice / Corina Weigl & Yvonne Mazurak
• The annotated will 2024 — Will drafting checklist / Amanda Stacey
• Joint retainer letter / Ed Espost
• Don’t send a will out for execution by a client alone / Rodney Hull

Family law refresher 2024 (April 5, 2024)

• Tips on representing parents in parenting, relocation & high-conflict cases / Steven Benmor
• Case conferences and motions / Kristy Maurina
• Preparing for trial / Fareen Jamal & Kathleen Broschuk
• How to best craft the pleading and case development : torts, trusts, third parties and beyond list of key cases / Andrea Gonsalves & Frances Wood

Eight-Minute Employment Lawyer 2024 (April 11, 2024)

• Choose your parting words carefully : an update on the enforceability of termination clauses in employment contracts / J.P. Karam & Carolyn Alexander
• Notice periods and exceptional circumstances / Behzad Hassibi & Vibhu “Vibz” Gairola
• “Just cause” : does it still exist? / Melissa Roth & Michael Piaseczny
• Update on remote work : workplace injuries, human rights requests, and employee supervision / Allyson Lee
• Can you terminate employees for off-duty conduct (e.g. expressing a particular political view)? / Fiona Martyn
• Use of AI in the workplace / Ryan Watkins

See the list below for new titles now available at the CCLA library!

2024 Annotated Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act (Thomson)

2024 Annotated Ontario Construction Act (Thomson)

Annotated Canada Pension Plan and Old Age Security Act, 23rd Ed. (LexisNexis)

Behind and Beyond Boilerplate: Drafting Commercial Agreements, Fifth Ed. (Thomson)

Bennett on Bankruptcy, 26th Ed. (LexisNexis)

Black’s Law Dictionary, 12th Ed. (Thomson)

Carter on Easements (Thomson)

The Comprehensive Guide to Legal Research, Writing & Analysis, 4th Ed. (Emond)

Conduct of Lien, Trust and Adjudication Proceedings, 2024 Ed. (Thomson)

Contracts for the Family Law Client (LexisNexis)

Litigation and Administrative Advocacy: The Art and Science of Persuasion (LexisNexis)

Martin’s Related Criminal Statutes, 2024-2025 Ed. (Thomson)

Ontario Annual Practice, 2024-2025 Ed. (Thomson)

Ontario Workplace Safety and Insurance Act & Commentary, 2024/2025 Ed. (LexisNexis)

Personal Injury Damages, 2024 Ed. (LexisNexis)

Pre-emptive Commercial Remedies (LexisNexis)

Prosecuting and Defending Sexual Offence Cases, 3rd Ed. (Emond)

Residential Tenancies, Twelfth Ed. (Thomson)

Watt’s Manual of Criminal Evidence 2024 Ed. (Thomson)

Below are some of the most recent LSO CPD materials added to the library collection and are now available for free online! Come by the library to read these in print or click on the linked titles below to download the articles from AccessCLE.

The Annotated Powers of Attorney for Property and for Personal Care 2024 (January 24, 2024)

• Providing accessible legal services to older adults / Alyssa Lane
• Effective communication with older adults / Graham Webb
• General information for the grantor of a continuing power of attorney for property / Jennifer Corak

The Eight-Minute Commercial Leasing Lawyer 2024 (February 28, 2024)

• Acting for a subtenant entering into a sublease : what to watch for / Marco Gammone, Zoi Samonas
• Leasing to franchised businesses : a deep dive into the relationship of franchisors and leases / Cassandra Da Re
• Data privacy and cybersecurity considerations in commercial leasing / Stuart Chaimberg, Matthew Marriott, Safa Warsi
• The legal landscape : commercial leases and licenses and electric vehicle charging stations / Marta Lewycky, Sumaya Sherif
• What tenants need to know about construction liens / Robert Iaccino, Luigi Pasqualitto

Eight-Minute Administrative Law and Practice 2024 (March 5, 2024)

• What’s happened to Doré? What should we do about the Charter? (presentation slides) / Justin Safayeni
• Costs awards against disciplined professionals in regulatory proceedings / Morgana Kellythorne
• Yatar V. TD Insurance Meloche Monnex, et al at the Supreme Court of Canada / Nabila Qureshi, Talia Wolfe

The Annotated Alter Ego Trust and Discretionary Trust 2024 (March 6, 2024)

• Taxation of inter vivos trusts (presentation slides) / James Murdoch
• Estate planning and the taxation of trusts / M. Elena Hoffstein
• Discussion of the annotated alter ego trust / David Stevens

The Annotated Guardianship Application 2024 (March 6, 2024)

• Early mediation of guardianship disputes : when, why & how / Arthur Fish
• Off-ramps from multi-issue guardianship litigation / Alexander Procope
• Registering guardianship orders on title / Meredith MacLennan

See the list below for new titles now available at the CCLA library!

2024 Annotated Competition Act (Thomson)

2024 Annotated Customs Act (Thomson)

2024 Annotated Ontario Personal Property Security Act (Thomson)

Administrative Law: Principles and Advocacy, 5th Ed. (Emond Publishing)

Canadian Insurance Defence (Thomson)

Detention and Arrest 3rd Ed. (Irwin Law)

Impaired Driving in Canada – The Charter Cases, 5th Ed. (LexisNexis)

Labour and Employment Law in the Federal Public Service, 2nd ed. (Irwin Law)

The Law of Civil Procedure in Ontario, 5th Ed. (LexisNexis)

The Law of Limitations, 4th Ed. (LexisNexis)

Legal Accounting, 3rd Ed. (Emond Publishing)

Ontario Public Service Employment and Labour Law, 2nd ed. (Irwin Law)

The Right Not to Remain Silent: The Truth About Mental Health in The Legal Profession (LexisNexis)

Stikeman Income Tax Act Annotated 2024, 75th Ed. (Thomson)

Taxation of Trusts and Estates: A Practitioner’s Guide 2024 (Thomson)

Below are some of the most recent LSO CPD materials added to the library collection and are now available for free online! Come by the library to read these in print or click on the linked titles below to download the articles from AccessCLE.

Six-Minute Real Estate Lawyer 2023 (November 15, 2023)

• Strong mayor powers – a cure to Ontario’s housing crisis? / John Mascarin & Jennifer Bilas
• Becoming content with contents / Doug Bourassa
• Recent court decisions impacting condominium disputes in Ontario / Harry Herskowitz & Amy Crystal
• Making application for absolute title : getting it right and avoiding delays / Izaak de Rijcke

Eight-Minute Family Law Lawyer 2023 (November 28, 2023)

• Child hearsay : a primer / Nicole Tellier
• Contempt findings and penalties in family law / Jessica Brown
• Recognizing foreign marriages and foreign divorces / Michelle DiCarlo
• An uphill battle temporary parenting orders: appeals and motions to vary / David Tobin & Ainsley Doell

12th Human Rights Summit (December 5, 2023)

• Family status and its application to remote work / Ellen Low
• Update on COVID-related human rights cases in employment / Lauri Reesor & Steve Gellatly
• Current issues in Canadian safe sport investigations / Jennifer White
• Regulating the use of AI in hiring : a snapshot of Ontario & NYC! / Nicole Heelan, reviewed by Stephanie Kelley

Civil Appeals: The Year in Review 2023 (December 7, 2023)

• Contract law in 2023 : a year without blockbusters / Geoff Hall & Aya Schechner
• Civil procedure update 2023 / Michael Watson & Alexandra Psellas
• 2023 tort law update / case summaries by Dylan Challinor & Mitchell MGowan
• Limitation periods update : 2023 / Jeremy Opolsky & Alicja Puchta

See the list below for new titles now available at the CCLA library!

2024 Annotated Bank Act with Associated Regulations (Thomson)

2024 Annotated Canada Labour Code (Thomson)

2024 Annotated Copyright Act (Thomson)

2024 Annotated Divorce Act (Thomson)

2024 Annotated Employment Insurance Act (Thomson)

2024 Annotated Ontario Labour Relations Act (Thomson)

2024 Annotated Ontario Landlord and Tenant Statutes (Thomson)

Annotated Ontario Rules of Criminal Practice 2024 (Thomson)

Annual Review of Family Law, 2022-2023 (Thomson)

La Charte canadienne des droits et libertés : les grands énoncés de la Cour suprême, 2023 (Éditions Yvon Blais)

Indigenous Peoples and the Law in Canada: Cases and Commentary 2024 (Thomson)

The Law of Regulatory Investigations in Canada (LexisNexis)

Minimum Maintenance Standards for Municipal Highways (LexisNexis)

Watson and McGowan’s Ontario Civil Practice 2024 (Thomson)

Below are some of the most recent LSO CPD materials added to the library collection and are now available for free online! Come by the library to read these in print or click on the linked titles below to download the articles from AccessCLE.

Intensive Child Protection Training Primer 2023, Day 1 (November 2, 2023)

• Duty counsel in child protection cases / Robin Leighton
• Temporary care and custody motions – tips for parent’s counsel / Katharina Janczaruk
• Explaining the protection finding to your client / Colin Tobias

Intensive Child Protection Training Primer 2023, Day 2 (November 3, 2023)

• Trial preparation tips / Martha Chamberlain, Imran Kamal & Gilead Kay
• A child protection lawyer’s tips for cross examining a child protection worker / Karen Ksienski
• So it’s your turn to cross-examine a witness? Now what? / Paula McGirr
• A child protection lawyer’s tips for direct examination of a parent/caregiver / Karen Ksienski

Safeguarding Real Estate Transactions 2023 (November 15, 2023)

• Everything you need to know about stacking mortgages / Tannis A. Waugh
• Making time matter : time is of the essence clauses in real estate transactions / Mark Dunn & Arash Rouhi
• Cautionary lawyer cases / Reuben Rosenblatt

31st Immigration Law Summit, Day 1 (November 21, 2023)

• Strategies and tips for express entry / Brenda Wong
• Border update and port of entry applications ; CBSA memo (March 8, 2007) / Bill MacGregor
• Top 15 federal court cases in 2023 / Rishma Bhimji & Lou Janssen Dangzalan

31st Immigration Law Summit, Day 2 (November 22, 2023)

• Major case law update / Daniel Engel & Mielka Visnic
• The effects of the judgment in Canadian Council for Refugees v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration), 2023 SCC 17 on s. 7 litigation in the context of the IRPA / Jared Will

See the list below for new titles now available at the CCLA library!

2024 Annotated Immigration and Refugee Protection Act of Canada (Thomson)

2024 Annotated Ontario Education Act (Thomson)

Annotated Ontario Securities Legislation, 59th Ed. (LexisNexis)

Bennett on Commercial Leases in Ontario, 2nd Ed. (LexisNexis)

Bennett’s A to Z Guide to Small Business Bankruptcy and Insolvency, 2nd Ed. (LexisNexis)

Canadian Immigration and Refugee Law: A Practitioner’s Handbook, 4th Ed. (Emond)

Federal Courts Practice, 2024 (Thomson)

Martin’s Ontario Criminal Practice, 2024 Ed. (Thomson)

McLeod’s Ontario Family Law Rules Annotated, 2023-2024 (LexisNexis)

Mitigation in Ontario Employment Law (LexisNexis)

The Privacy Officer’s Guide to the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act, 2024 Ed. (Thomson)

Prosecuting and Defending Drug Cases, 2nd Ed. (Emond)

Prosecuting and Defending Youth Criminal Justice Cases, 3rd Ed. (Emond)

Sentencing: Principles and Practice, 2nd Ed. (Emond)

Below are some of the most recent LSO CPD materials added to the library collection and are now available for free online! Come by the library to read these in print or click on the linked titles below to download the articles from AccessCLE.

Practice Gems: Administration of Estates 2023 (September 26, 2023)

• Solicitor’s negligence / Jordan Oelbaum & Chris Stankiewicz
• Spousal and dependants’ claims / Nav Shokar & Amelia You
• Administering Estates with Henson Trusts / Lisa Leinveer
• Death, taxes and the executor / Sunita Doobay

24th Employment Law Summit (October 11, 2023)

• Prohibition on wage-fixing and no-poach agreements : what employers need to know / Amy Derickx, Elad Gafni & Michael Walsh
• Federal legislative developments / Claire Boychuk
• Employees, dependent and independent contractors : it’s a matter of character / Melanie Reist & Taylor Maitland
• Workplace harassment and violence investigations best practices for workplace investigations / Dorian Persaud & Barbara Darby

26th Estates and Trusts Summit, Day 1 (October 18, 2023)

• This is not a scam : a warning about the duty to warn / Alex Smith
• Taxation of non-resident beneficiaries of Canadian estates / Sébastien Desmarais, Brian Cohen & Andrew Coates
• Joint tenancy and third-parties – whose rights prevail? / Gillian Fournie & Jonathon Vander Zee
• Attorney battles : invalidating powers of attorney and attorney removal / Brendan Donovan & Tyler Lin

26th Estates and Trusts Summit, Day 2 (October 19, 2023)

• The intersection of estates, criminal & elder law / Kimberly Whaley & Brett Book
• Advising attorneys : issues of capacity and vulnerability / Kathryn Balter & Laura Geddes
• Security and bonds in guardianships / Gemma Charlton
• Top tips to avoid risk in estate planning with clients / Dawn Phillips-Brown, Debra Stephens & Matthew Furrow

See the list below for new titles now available at the CCLA library!

The 2023-2024 Annotated Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act (Thomson)

The 2024 Annotated Ontario Family Law Act (Thomson)

The 2024 Annotated Ontario Human Rights Code (Thomson)

The 2024 Annotated Tremeear’s Criminal Code (Thomson)

Annual Review of Civil Litigation, 2023 ed. (Thomson)

Bennett on Bankruptcy, 25th Ed. (LexisNexis)

Document Registration Guide, 25th Ed., 2024 (Thomson)

A Guide to Consent & Capacity Law in Ontario, 2024 Ed. (LexisNexis)

A Guide to the Youth Criminal Justice Act, 2023/2024 Ed. (LexisNexis)

The Law of Traffic Offences, Fifth Ed. (Thomson)

Ontario Employment Standards Act: Quick Reference – 2024 Ed. (Thomson)

Ontario Family Law Practice, 2024 Ed. (LexisNexis)

Ontario Planning Legislation 2023 (Thomson)

Ontario Workplace Safety and Insurance Act & Commentary, 2023/2024 Ed. (LexisNexis)

Personal Injury Damages, 2023 Ed. (LexisNexis)

Supreme Court of Canada Practice 2023 (Thomson)