Toronto Lawyers Association (TLA), Pre-Trials for Young Lawyers: Virtual Chat with Justice Akbarali

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Date & Time

Apr 16, 2021 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM - Pre-Trials for Young Lawyers: Virtual Chat with Justice Akbarali

Location

ZOOM-WEBINAR
https://zoom.us/
Toronto, Ontario M5G 1T3
Canada

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This program contains 60 minutes of substantive content.

Are you a young lawyer looking to sharpen your Civil Pre-Trial Conference advocacy skills? Join us on April 16, 2021 at 1:00 p.m. for a Virtual Chat with Justice Akbarali of the Superior Court of Justice. During this interactive Zoom event, Justice Akbarali will share her tips and tricks and answer your questions on how to:

Prepare your case appropriately in the months leading up to your Pre-Trial Conference;
Draft an effective Pre-Trial Conference Memorandum;
Identify and use effective strategies for success during Pre-Trial Conferences; and
Take advantage of any momentum created at the Pre-Trial Conference itself as you prepare your case for trial.

Speaker

Justice Akbarali of the Superior Court of Justice Read her bio

Madam Justice Jasmine Akbarali received a Bachelor of Arts from McMaster University with a major in French in 1991. She was the gold medalist of her law class at the University of Windsor in 1995. A former clerk at the Supreme Court of Canada, she was called to the Bar of Ontario in 1997. She was previously a partner at Lerners LLP in Toronto where her practiced focused on appeals in a wide range of areas and included significant pro bono work. Madam Justice Akbarali received awards including the South Asian Bar Association’s Female Lawyer of the Year award in 2009, Lexpert’s Rising Star award and the Canadian Civil Liberties Association’s award for Excellence in Law. She previously served as a Vice President of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association and a director of the George Hull Centre for Children and Families, a full-service children’s mental health centre in Etobicoke. Madam Justice Akbarali was appointed to the Superior Court of Justice in October, 2016.

Moderator

Kathryn J. Manning, Partner at DMG Advocates LLP Read her bio

Kathryn is a Founding Partner at DMG Advocates LLP, a commercial litigation boutique based in Toronto. She was called to the Ontario Bar in 1998 after graduating from Queen’s University with her LL.B. in 1996. Kathryn has a broad civil litigation practice that includes large, complex commercial disputes. She has experience in a wide range of matters, including shareholder disputes, professional negligence, employment litigation, product liability, class actions, broker liability, and civil fraud. Kathryn has deep advocacy experience in trials, arbitrations, appeals, and interlocutory proceedings such as injunctions and summary judgment motions.

Kathryn brings a unique perspective to her commercial litigation practice, providing her clients with effective, cost-efficient strategic legal advice in all types of civil disputes that leverages technology appropriate to each matter. She has expertise working with digital evidence at all stages of litigation matters. Kathryn has been counsel in electronic hearings in the Ontario courts and in arbitrations.

Program details

Friday, April 16, 2021
1:00 – 2:00 p.m.
ZOOM - 2 step registration. You will receive the details to join in your confirmation email.

This program contains 60 minutes of substantive content.

Registration Fee:

Members: $20.00 + HST
Member Licensing Candidates and New Calls: $25.00 + HST
Friends of the TLA: $50.00 + HST
Non-Members: $50.00 + HST

Complimentary tickets are available for Law School Students. Please contact Sandra Porter before April 14, at events@tlaonline.ca .

No refunds after April 9, 2021. An administrative fee of $25.00 will be applied to all cancellations.

The views and opinion expressed by speakers are their own and may not represent the views and opinions of the Toronto Lawyers Association.

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