The Canadian Bar Association (CBA) offers its members a full range of national conferences that provide a valuable skills-improvement forum and an opportunity to exchange ideas with colleagues and Bar leaders from across Canada and around the world. With your conference membership, you'll enjoy many advantages such as referral networks, mentoring programs, and networking opportunities with colleagues, governments and related national and international organizations. National conferences also provide leading-edge bulletins and programs on practice tips, substantive legal developments and coming trends in practice and in the law. Newsletters, handbooks, videos and other products to assist you in your day-to-day practice are also available.

Gain insight into today's issues via CBA's Continuing Legal Education (CLE) programs. CBA CLEs are now even more convenient and current, thanks to high-tech developments such as the Internet. Plus, you'll benefit from CBA annual seminars on aboriginal law, immigration law, tax law, competition law, administrative law and more. With our live, online Continuing Legal Education sessions, we bring the experts to your office. If you’ve got a computer, a phone, and 90 minutes, we’ll deliver the latest programs from top legal experts directly to your desktop. It’s that easy.

CBA In-Person CLE
CBA National 2009 Citizenship and Immigration Law Conference
April 16 - 18, 2009
Fairmont Chateau Whistler Hotel, Whistler, BC

Sales, Commodity Tax and Customs CLE Conference
April 29 - 30, 2009
Ottawa Marriott Hotel, Ottawa, ON

Annual National Environmental, Energy and Resources Law Summit
May 1 - 2, 2009
Hyatt Regency Vancouver, Vancouver, BC

2009 National Charity Law Symposium
May 7, 2009
InterContinental Toronto Centre Hotel, Toronto, ON

Competition Law Spring CLE Conference
May 11 - 12, 2009
Fairmont Royal York, Toronto, ON

Health Law CLE Conference
May 21 - 22, 2009
Morris J Wosk Centre for Dialogue, Simon Fraser University and the Delta Hotel Vancouver, Vancouver, BC

2009 Tax Law for Lawyers
May 23 - 29, 2009
Queen’s Landing Inn, Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON

Advocacy Before the Federal Courts In Intellectual Property Matters
May 2009
Ottawa, ON

Aboriginal Law CLE Conference
June 12 - 13, 2009
Delta Hotel Victoria, Victoria, BC

Elder Law CLE Conference
June 12 - 13, 2009
Donald Gordon Conference Centre, Kingston, ON

Constitutional Human Rights Law CLE Conference
June 18-19, 2009
Marriott Ottawa Hotel, Ottawa, ON

Online CBA CLE
Making Partner
January 22, 2009

Annual Reporting to the Law Society on CLE Activities
Recently, the Law Society of BC instituted a requirement that all members annually report their professional development activities. Benchers encourage every lawyer to complete a minimum of 12 hours of professional development activities and 50 hours of self-study hours.

The Canadian Bar Association is pleased to report that the Law Society of BC has confirmed that professional development activities include attendance at CBA Section presentations. Review of Section minutes and materials, where that review does not relate to a specific case or file, may be included in the self-study activities report. Reading and writing printed material [including electronic printed material], such as articles in the Canadian Bar Review and BarTalk may also be included in the self-study activities report.

CBA membership and Section participation continue to be a very cost-effective means of achieving the professional development and self-study expectations of the Law Society.