by Deirdre O'Reilly | Mar 26, 2018 | Continuing Professional Development
The deadline for your 2017 Annual Member Report (AMR) and Mandatory Continuing Professional Development (MCPD) Report is quickly approaching. Here are answers to the common questions and issues that lawyers have when submitting these reports.
I didn’t practise for most of 2017.
Do I still have to complete the AMR and MCPD Reports?
Yes, if you practised for any portion of 2017 you must complete the AMR and MCPD reports.
The minimum MCPD requirement is 1 CPD hour for every month you held active practising status in the 2017 calendar year. And for those that practised for 3 months or more, 1.5 hours of those completed hours must relate to ethics, professional responsibility or practice management. For more details review the Guiding Principles and Division 8.1 – Professional Development of the Law Society Rules.
Are the Ethics Professionalism Practice Management (EPPM) hours I must complete in addition to the required 12 CPD hours?
No, the EPPM requirement of 1.5 hours per year is not in addition to the overarching requirement of 12 CPD hours. This means of the 12 CPD hours you have completed, 1.5 of these hours must qualify as EPPM.
For clarification on what type of subject matter qualifies as EPPM please see this Eligible Activities Subject Matter Chart .
I just received my Call in 2017.
Do I still need to complete and report CPD hours?
You still must complete the AMR and MCPD reports in the year of your Call to the Bar, however, there is no minimum requirement for the number of CPD hours you must complete.
So when you complete your MCPD report indicate how many hours you did, even if it was zero, and you will be in compliance with the requirements. Just remember, you must still complete the AMR and MCPD report.
by George Roy | Mar 22, 2018 | Library Hours
The Library will be closed March 30th and April 2nd for Good Friday and Easter Monday, respectively.
We will re-open on Tuesday, April 3nd at 8:30 am.
by George Roy | Mar 21, 2018 | Legal Research, New Books
We’ve recently received quite a few new books for the Library, and we wanted to put them on display!
They are:
If you’d like to check out any of these materials, please let us know.
by Karen Sawatzky | Mar 20, 2018 | Caselaw, Civil Litigation, Legal Research, United States
Most of the time when I see the word “bot” I think of Russian trolls influencing the U.S. election. But not this time! USA Today investigative reporter Brad Heath has created an automatic Twitter bot that follows selected U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. Courts of Appeal, and Federal District Court cases of note and posts documents from new docket entries to Twitter.
In its documentation, the bot is described as follows:
The bot uses PACER RSS feeds to gather the latest filings from 74 U.S. District Courts and five federal courts of appeals and stores the docket entries in a database. It matches new filings against a preselected list of major cases, scrapes matching documents from PACER, uploads them to a DocumentCloud project and posts the results on Twitter.
You must have a PACER account in order to access the documents – we do! So if you want the latest filing on United States v. AT&T and Time Warner, or any other U.S. court case you’re watching, let us know if we can help. There may be a fee for retrieving documents.
And follow Big Cases on Twitter for up-to-date notification.
h/t to Internet for Lawyers.
by George Roy | Mar 9, 2018 | Commentary, Law Society Publications, Legal Research
The latest edition of Business Law from Manitoba eLaw is now live! Some of the articles in Issue No. 82, March 2018 include:
- “Something More Than Nothing” Required to Discharge Duty: SCC
- BLA Does Not Apply to Contracts or Work Related to Hydro Project: MBQB
- Oppression Remedy Not Suited to Addressing Family Dispute: MBQB
- Legislative Update
- Federal Budget 2018
- Consultation on Modernizing The Builders’ Liens Act: MLRC
- Consultation Paper on Reviewing AML and ATF Regimes: Department of Finance
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