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