Effective lawyering with clients leaving abusive relationships

Designed for Ontario family law lawyers and law students, this program contains 1 hr 20 mins Professional Hours, and is eligible up to 1 hr 10 mins Substantive Hours. To enroll, you must be a practicing lawyer or a law student. Please provide the following information:

If you are a practicing lawyer, your LSO number and year of call to the bar
If you are a law student, the school you are attending

The course covers:

Understanding intimate partner abuse
Converging issues – cultural & legal
Intake & screening
Practice management
Common issues in cases involving partner abuse
Evidence
Professional responsibility
Emergency motions

The course takes 4-5 hours to complete. It consists of narrated slide presentations accompanied by downloadable resource lists. Transcripts for narration are provided.

Once you purchase this course, processing will take 1 – 2 weeks, and you will then receive an email with access information.

Fee: $125.

This course is available free of charge to law students.

If you belong to one of these organizations, please contact training@lukesplace.ca using your workplace email address.

What lawyers say about our course

98% of course registrants would recommend this course to colleagues

Very relevant info that is extremely useful

This was a great course and I feel that I have learned a lot.

It was a very good course and I highly recommend it.

A sample of what lawyers tell us when asked what they thought was the most useful aspect of the course:

Learning about the different typologies of abuse

Reminders of how to deal with victims when they are having issues providing you with instructions

Drawing the connections between trauma and how a woman may present as a client – as well as how to manage this and set appropriate boundaries

Legal bullying and the use of an advocate

Practice management tips – i.e. conducting an effective first interview, security protocols

How well structured it was, i.e. so that you can immediately see that the content will be useful and so that you have a way of going back to the course easily to obtain information about various topics)

The content: information about domestic violence, advocacy and practice management

Applying knowledge learned from videos to quizzes

The Best Practices Manual for Lawyers, I appreciate having a tool that I can reference again and again. The manual is precise and provides many tools.

Practical strategies on dealing with risk assessments and safety plans

Effective lawyering with clients leaving abusive relationships