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YOUTH LEADERS IN LAW 2025
The Youth Leaders in Law Calgary Conference 2025
This conference will be an in-person conference taking place Saturday, April 5 2025 from 8:15 AM to 4:15 PM at the University of Calgary Law School, Murray Fraser Hall.
During this session, participants will have the opportunity to hear from lawyers across various fields, law school admissions staff and law school students from UofC, and be able to participate in a mock trial. The 2025 Conference will culminate in an in-person fireside chat with the Honourable Justice Mahmud Jamal of the Supreme Court of Canada. Students will have the opportunity to meet Justice Jamal and to ask him questions.
This conference is FREE to attend and free pizza courtesy of Seniores will be provided for lunch! Other free snacks will also be provided throughout the day.
As part of our Conference this year, we are also hosting a competitive mock trial from 9:00 am - 11:00 am. Awards will be handed out by the Honourable Justice Jamal at the end of the day. You do NOT need to have any experience with mock trials to participate; you will be taught the necessary skills by venerable lawyers before-hand. Student observers are welcome.
For more information, please visit our Calgary page!
Link to register for the conference:
For students OUTSIDE of Calgary/Airdrie (not including Edmonton) we are offering the opportunity to hear the fireside chat conducted by Rani Wong, K.C., to Justice Jamal.
This online session will take place on April 5, 2025 from 2:45 p.m. - 3:30 p.m (MST). on Zoom. If you are from a different province, please make sure to convert to your respective time zone.
Further details will be provided to all registrants in advance on the session. Feel free to reach out to our team with any further questions!
This registration form is DUE on April 1st, 2025
ATJ Competition 2025
Our annual Access to Justice Competition is happening again in 2025!
Calgary Family Law Associates is again sponsoring the ATJ Competition for students across Canada. Entries may be in the form of an essay, poem, story, script, art or video. We encourage entries to be investigative and to consider the impact of the law in relation to the prompt: How do cultural norms, beliefs, or values impact an individual’s or community’s participation in the criminal, family or other aspect of the justice system and what steps can be taken to address such participation, or lack of participation, to improve access to justice in Canada?
For further information and contest guidelines, please visit our ATJ Competition page!
The Deadline is March 31, 2025.
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