Agenda
Friday, November 15 (4.75 CPD hours, includes .5 for lunch speaker)
7:30 – 8:00 am Registration/Breakfast
8:00 – 8:30 am Welcome
Speakers: Dean Crawford, CBABC President and Marcella McLaughlin, President San Diego County Bar Association
Session 1
8:30 – 9:30 am Marijuana, Coming to a Store Near You? A United States Perspective.
Speaker: Chris Lindberg, Deputy District Attorney, San Diego County
Session 2
9:30-10:30 am Buying, Renting & Selling US Real Estate for Canadians – What You and Your Clients Need to Know!
Speakers: Cheyenne Reese and Michael Brooks (US Lawyer)
10:30 – 10:45 am Break
Session 3A
10:45 – 11:45 am As Dirty Harry said “You’ve Got to Know Your Limitations.” Now We’ve Got New Ones.
Speakers: David Crerar and Nicole Byres
Session 3B
10:45 – 11:45 am Emerging Trends in Commercial Transactions.
Speakers: James Bond, QC
Session 4
11:45 – 12:45 pm Impaired Driving – It’s a Brave New World for Your Clients and You – What You Can Do When You Get the Call!
Speaker: Paul Doroshenko
Lunch
12:45 – 2:00 pm How You Could Apply Your Case to Provincial Court.
Speaker: The Honourable Chief Judge Thomas Crabtree
Evening Reception (Location TBA)
6:00 – 8:00 pm Law and the Music Industry – How do they Relate?
Speakers: Cameron Strang
Saturday, November 16 (3.75 hours + .5 Lunch = 4.25)
8:00 – 8:30 am Breakfast
Session 5
8:30 – 10:30 am Key Note Speaker
Speakers: TBC
10:30 – 10:45 am Break
Session 6A
10:45 – 11:45 am Family Law Developments – How are We Doing?
Speakers: Mark Perry and The Honourable Judge Patricia Bond
Session 6B
10:45 – 11:45 pm Judicial Bias – Say it isn’t So – Or is it?
Speakers: Craig Jones, QC and Art Vertlieb, QC
Session 7
11:45 – 12:45 pm When Business is All in the Family – That’s One Big Family.
Speakers: Judi Cunningham, Wendy Sage-Hayward and Noel Golden
Lunch
12:45 – 2:00 pm Lunch
Speaker: The Honourable Chief Justice Pierre Blais
Closing Dinner
6:30 – 7:00pm Cocktail
Reception
7:00 – 8: 30pm Speaker: The Honourable Chief Justice Robert Bauman
Sunday, November 17 (3 hours)
8:00 – 8:30 am Breakfast
Session 8
8:30 – 10:00 The Importance of Being Earnest – This isn’t Your Ordinary Session on Civility and Ethics!
Speakers: Marvin Storrow, QC and Geoff Plant, QC
Session 9
10:00 – 11:30am Things we Should Learn from Rural/Suburban Practice. You Do it all and then Some!
Speakers: Myron Plett, The Honourable Justice Robert Punnett and Sarah Westwood