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The CBA’s popular Skilled Lawyer Series is back with a total of 16 webinars over two streams to help you improve your litigation and transactional skills, and accumulate up to 12 hours of CPD credits per stream in just a few months.

This year’s winner of the National Sections Council Award of Excellence is the Women Lawyers Forum, recognized for its outstanding contribution of a National Section in providing service to members and furthering the objectives of the Association. Read on for more.

An event presented by the national Women Lawyers Forum and the OBA-WLF in October celebrated the 25th anniversary of the release of the Touchstones for Change report, as well as the founding of the OBA Section. We have a report on the event, and pictures of some of the members of the original task force.

Today the Canadian Bar Association’s Women Lawyers Forum launches the first ever national compensation survey of partners in law firms in Canada.

The days are getting shorter—and so too is the time to renew your Canadian Bar Association membership for another year. Join thousands of your colleagues from across Canada and renew today so you can continue to get the most out of your national association.

Last year, when seats opened up on the national Board of Directors under the new governance structure, I decided to apply, and I had the privilege of sitting on the first board faced with the challenge of operating under the new CBA 2.0 structure.

One of this year’s recipients of LFFF funding is an initiative by the Women Lawyers Forum to survey gender-based compensation at the big firms operating in Canada.

The CBA Women Lawyers Forum, along with the OBA WLF, held a special event in October commemorating the anniversary of the Touchstones for Change report. The event was recorded and will be available for viewing online.

The CBA WLF, together with the OBA WLF, are pleased to present a truly unique event - the 25th Anniversary commemoration of the CBA Gender Equality Task Force Report, Touchstones for Change: Equality, Diversity and Accountability.

Since the CBA annual meeting now takes place in February instead of August, the deadline for nominations for a number of awards has been changed this year to October 15.