Description Join Clea Parfitt, an experienced human rights and employment law lawyer, as she discusses strategies, considerations, and common pitfalls to avoid in negotiating settlements for clients with sexual harassment claims. She will discuss assessing your client’s claim, approaches to negotiation, and identifying and addressing concerns in settlement agreements and releases, such as non-disclosure agreements....

Overview Like the law, language and styles of writing evolve over time to meet the needs of new generations. One such shift is towards language that reflects a modern understanding of gender and gender identity. Inclusivity can no longer be limited to masculine and feminine but must be extended to include people who identify as...

Event Hosted By: Thomson Reuters Comprehensive or Commercial General Liability (collectively: “CGL”) policies are the most widely used liability policies in the business community, designed to address the needs of most businesses. The particular wording of each insurer's standard form may differ. As well, manuscript policies may be accepted by insurers. In general, the industry...

Join the Society’s TRC Working Group (TRCWG) for the education session Trauma-Informed Lawyering: What I Wish I Knew – the Lawyer Edition with lawyer and host of the “The Trauma-Informed Lawyer” podcast Myrna McCallum. Thursday, November 17, 2022 12:00 PM-1:00 PM Trauma-informed lawyering is a do-no-further-harm, relational approach to the practice of law that benefits you, your clients, your...

How do wrongful convictions really occur? How do opposing counsel have such opposing views of a matter? And why does the truth sometimes seem so difficult to distill? Answer: cognitive biases. We are designed to organize patterns in our complex, information-filled world, allowing us to be efficient and make rapid decisions with little mental effort....

The legal landscape in Canada raises difficult questions about managing substance use and abuse in the workplace. Arbitrators have considered numerous cannabis-related issues, addressing employer policies regarding the use of medical cannabis by employees in safety-sensitive positions, the obligation of employees to disclose their medical cannabis prescriptions, and the broader legitimacy of workplace drug testing....

The Federal/Provincial/Territorial Heads of Prosecutions Sub-Committee on the Prevention of Wrongful Convictions and Courthouse Libraries B.C. present: "Forensic Fallout: Scientific evidence and the prevention of wrongful convictions". This 2hr panel presentation will feature the following speakers: Linda Rothstein, Partner with Paliare Roland Barristers Caitlin Pakosh, Assistant Crown Attorney and Assistant Professor at the University of...