Alberta
Unlike other jurisdictions, the Law Society of Alberta CPD program does not require that a mandatory minimum number of accredited hours be counted towards CPD. It is mandatory, however, that lawyers in Alberta make an annual CPD declaration that they have made a CPD Plan that includes a range of learning activities relevant to their professional development.
Alberta lawyers may consider including any Lancaster House conference, audio conference or workshop as a CPD learning activity in their mandatory annual Continuing Professional Development Plan required by the Law Society of Alberta.
For further information, please visit: http://www.lawsociety.ab.ca/lawyers/cpd.aspx
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British Columbia
In each calendar year, lawyers must complete at least 12 hours of continuing professional development in accredited educational activities. No less than 2 of the 12 hours must pertain to any combination of professional responsibility and ethics, client care and relations, and practice management.
New members who have completed the bar admission program of a Canadian law society during the reporting year are exempt from the requirements for that year.
Lancaster House's practice is to have all of our conferences, audio conferences, and workshops accredited by the Law Society of British Columbia.
You should see an annotation on each Lancaster House program schedule confirming that the program has been accredited by the Law Society of British Columbia. Only programs specifically noted as meeting the "professionalism requirement" will count towards the Law Society of British Columbia's requirement for 2 hours of CPD pertaining to professional responsibility, ethics, client care and relations and practice management.
For further information, please visit: http://www.lawsociety.bc.ca/licensing_membership/profdev/faq.html
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Manitoba
Participation in CPD is not currently mandatory for lawyers in Manitoba, only the reporting of CPD activities is mandatory. However, the Law Society of Manitoba recommends a minimum of 12 hours of CPD activities per annual reporting period, or approximately 1 hour per month.
All practising lawyers in Manitoba must report their CPD activities. This report is based on the calendar year and must be submitted to the Law Society on or before April 1st of the following year.
Manitoba lawyers may count any Lancaster House conference, audio conference or workshop towards the recommended 12 hours of CPD per year.
For further information, please visit:
http://www.lawsociety.mb.ca/education/continuing-professional-development/mandatory-reporting-of-cpd
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New Brunswick
The Law Society of New Brunswick's Mandatory Continuing Professional Development Requirement came into effect on January 1, 2010. All members with practising status must complete 12 hours of mandatory continuing professional development annually.
Lancaster House is working on becoming an approved provider of CPD as defined by the Law Society of New Brunswick, which will make all our conferences and audio conferences "accredited." In the meantime, Lancaster House will obtain accreditation from the Law Society of New Brunswick for each conference, audio conference or workshop.
Please look for the annotation regarding Law Society of New Brunswick accreditation on each conference or audio conference program.
For further information, please visit:
http://www.lawsociety-barreau.nb.ca/emain.asp?794
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Northwest Territories
The Law Society of the Northwest Territories is asking all members to monitor their CPD activities and observe the 12 hours of CPD, including 2 hours focused on Legal Ethics & Practice, suggested by the Society.
The Law Society of the Northwest Territories lists Lancaster House as a "recommended provider" of CPD on their Infosheet on Continuing Professional Development.
For further information, please visit:
http://www.lawsociety.nt.ca/membership/cle.html
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Ontario
Lawyers must complete at least 12 hours of continuing professional development annually. Independent study, which previously counted, will NO LONGER COUNT towards CPD requirements as of January 1, 2011.
Lawyers must complete 3 hours of CPD that the Law Society has accredited as dealing with professional responsibility, ethics and/or practice management. The other 9 hours of CPD each lawyer must complete do not have to be accredited by the law society.
Any of Lancaster House's conferences, audio conferences and/or workshops may be counted towards 9 of the 12 hours of mandatory CPD each year. Only programs specifically marked as accredited by the Law Society of Upper Canada (LSUC) as meeting the "professionalism" requirement may be counted towards the other 3 hours.
New Members (lawyers with less than 2 years of experience AND called after May 31, 2010) are a special category for LSUC. New members may only count CPD hours specifically accredited by the LSUC as meeting the requirements for new members.
For further information, please visit: https://portal.lsuc.on.ca/wps/portal/custom_login_en
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Quebec
The Québec Bar requires members to complete at least 30 hours of approved training during each two-year compliance period.
Training activities held or viewed outside the Province of Québec and approved by another Canadian bar or foreign bar as part of a Mandatory Continuing Legal Education (MCLE) program in that other bar are automatically recognized by the Comité:
- regardless of whether or not the member of the Québec Bar is a member of that other bar; and
- regardless of whether or not this training activity is offered by that bar itself or by a supplier accredited by that bar.
It is up to the member who wishes to attend such training activities to verify with the foreign bar that it is recognized under its own mandatory continuing legal education program.
For these training activities, the member of the Québec Bar only has to declare in his/her training statement the training hours spent and to retain proof of registration and participation. No application for recognition shall be submitted to the Comité.
Québec lawyers may wish to report attendance at any Lancaster House conference, audio conference or workshop in their training statements.
For further information, please visit:
http://www.barreau.qc.ca/avocats/formation-continue/obligatoire/faq.html?Langue=en
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Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan lawyers are required to complete 36 hours of accredited CPD hours in a 3 year term. At least six of these hours must relate to "professionalism," i.e. they must deal with one or more of: Professional Responsibility, Ethics, Practice Standards, the Code of Professional Conduct, Conflict of Interest, Rules of the Law Society, Client Care and Relations, or Practice Management.
Lancaster House is working on becoming an approved provider of CPD as defined by the Law Society of Saskatchewan, which will make all our conferences and audio conferences "accredited." In the meantime, Lancaster House will obtain accreditation from the Law Society of Saskatchewan for each conference, audio conference or workshop. Please look for the annotation regarding Law Society of Saskatchewan accreditation on each conference, audio conference or workshop program.
For further information, please visit:
http://www.lawsociety.sk.ca/cpd/new/index.html
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