Legal Aid BC (LABC), along with the Criminal Defence Advocacy Society (CDAS), the Association of Legal Aid Lawyers (ALL), and the BC First Nations Justice Council (BCFNJC), successfully held their annual Criminal Law Bootcamp May 7 – 8 in Vancouver in person and online.
Close to 150 new lawyers and articling students attended the two-day conference, which consisted of 12 hours of professional education, including two hours of ethics and professionalism.
Thanks to generous support from the organizers, the conference was free for all attendees. Seven panels covered a wide array of topics that ranged from effective junior lawyering to a panel on managing expert witnesses. Thank you to our organizers and senior counsel who donated their time and knowledge to provide terrific content for our new lawyers and articling students.
Attendees can claim their credits for the conference as follows:
Provider
Legal Aid BC
Course name
CDAS, ALL, BCFNJC, and LABC Criminal Law Bootcamp (2026)
If you attended the bootcamp and did not receive materials after the conference, please email Zuzanna.Mazur@legalaid.bc.ca. Please also remember to complete the feedback survey, which is used to help determine topics for next year’s conference. The link to the survey was emailed to all attendees after the conference.
We look forward to hosting more new lawyers next year at our 2027 bootcamp!
