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Thursday December 1 Seminar – Please join VALL for our December Seminar – Access to Justice: How law librarians can give back
Please join VALL for our December seminar, “Access to Justice: How law librarians can give back” with guest speaker Dom Bautista. Dom will cover how law librarians can use their expertise to help self-represented litigants as a part of Amici Curiae. For more information about our speaker, please visit Dom’s Twitter page @LCCDomBautista.
Amici Curiae, which is now in its 5th year of operation, provides supervision of duty counsel and assistance to self-represented litigants. On any given day on any of the 3 levels of BC courts, self-represented litigants are regular fixtures. Like any party to a matter, they need to conduct legal research to help prove their case; this is one significant area where law librarians can play a huge role. And that, Dom says, is just the starting point. Amici Curiae volunteers are made up of lawyers, paralegals, firm accountants, and now, law librarians. For more details please visit their website at: http://lawcourtscenter.camp7.org/page-1770376.
As this seminar will be VALL’s last seminar of 2016, we encourage our members to come see old friends and new colleagues before the inevitable rush of Christmas descends.
Date: Thursday, December 1, 2016
Time: Registration @ 11:45am. Lunch @ 12:00pm. Seminar to conclude by 1:15pm.
Place: Sutton Place Hotel, 845 Burrard St., Vancouver, BC, V6Z 2K6. Main entrance off of Burrard St.
Cost: $50 VALL members. $70 non-members. Additional $2 fee for paying online only.
Registration: Register by mail or online. Follow the steps on the registration form, linked here.
Please register and pay by Friday, November 25, 2016. No refunds are available after Friday, November 25, 2016.
