Continuing Professional Development for BC’s Environmental Lawyers

Since 2011 West Coast Environmental Law has been offering a series of webinars designed for lawyers who practice in public interest environmental law.  This is one of our initiatives to help support BC’s public interest environmental lawyers.  The webinars meet the Law Society’s requirements for Continuing Professional Development training. 

The revenue generated from the webinars covers our costs and helps us pay for our work to strengthen BC’s public interest environmental law community.  We charge $20/webinar (a cost-recovery rate) for students, lawyers with public interest organizations, or lawyers who do work funded through our Environmental Dispute Resolution Fund, and $75/webinar for other lawyers. 

Our next webinar is:

When Environmental and Aboriginal Law Collide

Over the past year some of the most important environmental law cases have been Aboriginal law cases. In this webinar we’ll hear from the lawyers representing First Nations who have achieved significant environmental wins for their clients, protecting water, forests and endangered species. What are the opportunities for First Nations to protect the environment, and are there opportunities for environmentalists to work with First Nations to better protect the environment?  

Speakers: William J. Andrews (Counsel for the Halalt First Nation); Christopher Devlin (Counsel for West Moberly First Nations); Peter Grant (Counsel for the Office of the Wet’suwet’en); Greg McDade (Counsel for Carrier-Sekani Tribal Council).  

This webinar qualifies for 1.5 hours CPD credit with the Law Society of British Columbia.

Date: Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Time: 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

Space is limited. Reserve your Webinar seat by clicking below:

Registration will involve 2 steps.  First, follow the above links to be taken to our Webinar page to provide basic registration information. You will then be redirected to a payment page so that you can pay for the Webinar on-line. Please note, if you do not have a PayPal account, you will be required to re-enter your personal information.    

If you do not wish to pay via PayPal, please contact Jeanette Ageson at 604-601-2511 to arrange an alternative method of payment.

System Requirements
PC-based attendees
Required: Windows® 7, Vista, XP or 2003 Server

Macintosh®-based attendees
Required: Mac OS® X 10.5 or newer

Past Webinars
 

Legal Ethics in Public Interest Non-Profit Practice

What ethical and practice management issues face a public interest lawyer working for a non-profit organization?  How are those issues different from, and similar to, those faced by lawyers in a more conventional practice, or in government?  Join lawyers Scott Bernstein (Pivot), Kasari Govender (West Coast LEAF) and Josh Paterson (West Coast Environmental Law) as they discuss their practice with their respective organizations, and the ethical and professional issues that they encounter working on public interest matters.

This webinar is directed at lawyers working for public interest organizations, but we also welcome lawyers with a special interest in social justice and environmental issues.

Date: Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Time: 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM PST

Registration for this webinar is closed.

Our Coast, Our Decision: Maximizing Your Impact at the Enbridge Northern Gateway Joint Review Panel Hearings

You've signed up to make an oral statement at the Joint Review Panel Hearings happening in BC in 2012 regarding the Enbridge Northern Gateway project. That's great! Now what? If you've never been to one of these kind of community hearings before and are not sure what to expect, this webinar may help to answer your questions. In this free one hour session, we will go over what a Joint Review Panel Hearing is and what you can expect. In addition, we'll go over some of the ways that you can make yourself heard effectively on this issue. And if you're looking for more background information on the issue, we can point you toward some great resources.

This webinar is being co-presented by West Coast Environmental Law, Dogwood Initiative, ForestEthics, Friends of Wild Salmon, Living Oceans Society, and Sierra Club BC.

If you will not have access to a computer on the day of the webinar, you can also call in and listen via a toll-free number that will be made available closer to the event. We will also be recording the webinars and making the videos available online.

Registration for this webinar is closed.