| What's Going On July 2024 - Issue #28 Attention Former Court Clerks! Many Advocacy Club members served as clerks at the SCC, FCA, FCC and provincial superior/appeals courts. I want to conduct a series of interviews (on Zoom, under 30 minutes) to be published on Chatwithlawyers.ca . The focus will be on the quality of the experience both as training and as career advancement. No controversial questions! I may prepare a report to circulate among Club members. If you meet these conditions, please let me know, John Hollander . 1. You took the AC Boot Camp, the AC@LS or Trial Ad with me at uOttawa. 2. You clerked for a Superior Court. This includes those just completing their terms. 3. You want to help law students and articling students who are considering applying for clerkship. 4. You can handle a Zoom session in July. Advocacy Club Boot Camps The next Advocacy Club Boot Camps will take place in person in September and October 2024, dates TBD, in downtown Ottawa. Led by John Hollander. Features new techniques for planning and running direct/cross-examinations. Participants will qualify for 7.5 hours of substantive CPD and 1.5 hours of professional CPD, of which 1.0 hours are EDI. There may not be another Boot Camp until the fall. The cost is $370 for lawyers and $250 for students and paralegals, all plus HST, payable one week in advance and not refundable. For more details about the boot camp content & format, click here . Please contact John Hollander to express your interest in this or a future session. Advocacy Club @ Law School - Winter 2024 The Advocacy Club runs a boot camp for students in law school - any Canadian school, any year . 9 evening sessions of 90 minutes each, starting October 1 on Zoom. At no cost. Features the same techniques as presented to lawyers, paralegals and articling students. With new & upgraded modules for cross-examination and how to prepare your witness to be examined. Team leaders will be Club Members Alana Guy, Alice Mihailescu (Dentons), Chelsea Sexton (MBC Law), Matthew Benson (in Calgary) and Melanie LaBossiere (of Winnipeg's Thompson Dorfman Sweatman). They both present the techniques in plenary sessions and run the breakouts for student exercises. If enrollment exceeds 24, we may need another team leader? Any volunteers out there? Registration begins in July as students learn their fall schedules. Tuesday evenings from 7:00-8:30 p.m. (Eastern). Read the PDF promo here , complete with testimonials from past participants. Please pass this brochure on to summer interns, classmates, HR managers, and next year's articling students. Advocacy Club Boot Camp on Substack My AdvocacyClub.Substack.com now presents all our techniques with far more detail than the Boot Camp or my Trial Ad class at UOttawa, with well over 60 posts on techniques about: framing questions case analysis applying case analysis to the events in a case (Scenes) preparing for direct and cross-examinations conducting direct examinations issues in cross-examinations final argument preparing yourself & your client for discovery examinations dealing with issues that arise during examinations for discovery I even dropped in two posts about public speaking. These episodes get deeply into the weeds and show how the sausage is made (choose your metaphor). You just can't learn these techniques anywhere else, much less on your own time. If you want access, check it out here . This is the 28th issue of the newsletter. How are we doing? Let us know here . Did you get this in error? To unsubscribe or to change your email address, or to send me a comment, contact me here . I apologize that my support site - Weebly - can't deal with this automatically. Let's be buddies |
Attention Former Court Clerks! | |
Many Advocacy Club members served as clerks at the SCC, FCA, FCC and provincial superior/appeals courts. I want to conduct a series of interviews (on Zoom, under 30 minutes) to be published on Chatwithlawyers.ca.
The focus will be on the quality of the experience both as training and as career advancement. No controversial questions! I may prepare a report to circulate among Club members.
If you meet these conditions, please let me know, John Hollander.
1. You took the AC Boot Camp, the AC@LS or Trial Ad with me at uOttawa.
2. You clerked for a Superior Court. This includes those just completing their terms.
3. You want to help law students and articling students who are considering applying for clerkship.
4. You can handle a Zoom session in July. | |
The next Advocacy Club Boot Camps will take place in person in September and October 2024, dates TBD, in downtown Ottawa. Led by John Hollander. Features new techniques for planning and running direct/cross-examinations.
Participants will qualify for 7.5 hours of substantive CPD and 1.5 hours of professional CPD, of which 1.0 hours are EDI. There may not be another Boot Camp until the fall.
The cost is $370 for lawyers and $250 for students and paralegals, all plus HST, payable one week in advance and not refundable. For more details about the boot camp content & format, click here.
Please contact John Hollander to express your interest in this or a future session. | |
Advocacy Club @ Law School - Winter 2024 | |
The Advocacy Club runs a boot camp for students in law school - any Canadian school, any year. 9 evening sessions of 90 minutes each, starting October 1 on Zoom. At no cost. Features the same techniques as presented to lawyers, paralegals and articling students. With new & upgraded modules for cross-examination and how to prepare your witness to be examined.
Team leaders will be Club Members Alana Guy, Alice Mihailescu (Dentons), Chelsea Sexton (MBC Law), Matthew Benson (in Calgary) and Melanie LaBossiere (of Winnipeg's Thompson Dorfman Sweatman). They both present the techniques in plenary sessions and run the breakouts for student exercises. If enrollment exceeds 24, we may need another team leader? Any volunteers out there?
Registration begins in July as students learn their fall schedules. Tuesday evenings from 7:00-8:30 p.m. (Eastern). Read the PDF promo here, complete with testimonials from past participants. Please pass this brochure on to summer interns, classmates, HR managers, and next year's articling students.
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Advocacy Club Boot Camp on Substack | |
My AdvocacyClub.Substack.com now presents all our techniques with far more detail than the Boot Camp or my Trial Ad class at UOttawa, with well over 60 posts on techniques about:
- framing questions
- case analysis
- applying case analysis to the events in a case (Scenes)
- preparing for direct and cross-examinations
- conducting direct examinations
- issues in cross-examinations
- final argument
- preparing yourself & your client for discovery examinations
- dealing with issues that arise during examinations for discovery
I even dropped in two posts about public speaking.
These episodes get deeply into the weeds and show how the sausage is made (choose your metaphor).
You just can't learn these techniques anywhere else, much less on your own time. If you want access, check it out here.
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This is the 28th issue of the newsletter. How are we doing? Let us know here.
Did you get this in error? To unsubscribe or to change your email address, or to send me a comment, contact me here. I apologize that my support site - Weebly - can't deal with this automatically.
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