Climate Law Conference 2024

Product Type: Course

Session 1

Format

Courses - In-Person

Start Date & Time

2024-10-31 9:00 AM

End Date & Time

2024-10-31 4:30 PM

Location

Vancouver location TBA

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Session 2

Format

Courses - Webinar

Start Date & Time

2024-10-31 9:00 AM

End Date & Time

2024-10-31 4:30 PM

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Session 3

Format

Courses - Rebroadcast

Start Date & Time

2025-03-05

End Date & Time

2025-03-05

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Lawyering in a climate emergency

Thursday, October 31, 2024
9:00 am – 4:30 pm
Vancouver Location TBA
or attend via webinar

—Rebroadcasts—
On the rebroadcast date, you will have until midnight of that rebroadcast date to access the course. Please note that technical support will be available during regular CLEBC business hours.

Jump Start on CPD 2025
Wednesday, March 5, 2025

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Who should attend: This program will be of interest to lawyers working in a range of practice areas including: municipal, real estate, construction, insurance, human rights, energy, securities, environmental, and resource law. The curriculum is designed to profile both private and public law perspectives, and explore how the climate law practice area is evolving in the courtroom, the boardroom, and beyond.

Learning level: All levels

Mounting evidence that we are in a climate emergency creates an all-hands-on-deck moment for the legal profession. The challenges of adapting to and mitigating climate change have come to define a new practice area: climate law.

This course brings together innovators and thought leaders from across the profession who are practicing at the cutting edge of Canadian climate law, and grappling with the complex intersections between climate law and more established practice areas. A special focus of this year's conference will be the intersection between climate law and Aboriginal/Indigenous law and legal orders.

Law Society of BC CPD Hours: 5.5 hours (this course will contain a minimum of 1 hour pertaining to professional responsibility and ethics, client care and relations, and/or practice management)

Course Chair
Professor Chris Tollefson — UVic Faculty of Law, Principal, Tollefson Law Corporation, Victoria

Pricing	EARLY BIRD Register by Oct. 3/24	Regular Price After Oct. 3/24
In-person*	$579	$649
In-person Articled Student*	$369	$369
Webinar	$489	$559
Webinar Articled Student	$279	$279

Jump Start 2025	EARLY BIRD Register by Feb. 3/25	Regular Price After Feb. 3/25
Rebroadcast	$439	$499
Rebroadcast Articled Student	$249	$249

*Please note: The in-person session is dependent on a minimum number of registrants and may not be confirmed until 4 weeks before the course date.

Are you a member of the Indigenous legal community (lawyer/Articled Student/legal support staff/paralegal) or a non-lawyer Indigenous community member?
We value your contributions and encourage your participation in all of our programs. To increase accessibility, we offer a 50% discount* to all Indigenous lawyers/Articled Students/legal support staff/paralegals and a limited number of free online registrations to non-lawyer Indigenous community members (*discount applies to Regular prices, not Early Bird prices). Please contact Customer Service to find out more.

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Registration includes an electronic copy of the reference materials and lunch for in-person registration.

CLEBC Program Lawyer*
Raymond Lee
rlee@cle.bc.ca
*non-practising

Course Chair
Professor Chris Tollefson — UVic Faculty of Law, Principal, Tollefson Law Corporation, Victoria

About the Course Chair
Chris Tollefson is a teacher, author and litigator. Appointed as full professor at the UVic Faculty of Law in 2007, he has been counsel on many leading environmental cases including the Northern Gateway pipeline review; the Trans Mountain pipeline review; and the Pacific North West LNG environmental assessment. He co-authors a national environmental law textbook published by Thomson-Reuters (now in its 4th edition 2023). He played a founding role in the establishment of several environmental law organizations including Ecojustice and the Pacific Centre for Environmental Law and Litigation. Professor Tollefson is Principal at Tollefson Law, a firm that advises on environmental, resource governance and climate law for Indigenous governments and businesses, co-management bodies and regulators, and a public interest clientele. Tollefson Law is co-counsel with Arvay Finlay LLP, on La Rose v. HMTQ, a climate lawsuit case filed by 15 young Canadians against the federal government.

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