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CLE Papers

Lawyers are ethically bound to stay current with legal developments through continuing legal education (CLE). In some jurisdictions, CLE is mandatory. The papers presented at CLE seminars are often a good source of practical legal research, often on current issues or problematic issues.

The best way to find CLE papers is using the Canadian Legal Symposia Index (CLSI) on LexisNexis Quicklaw. This database indexes CLE papers from 1986 to current.

If you do not have access to the CLSI, you can consider the following options:

As of June 2010, the Centre d'accès à l'information juridique (CAIJ) has made the Scott Index to Canadian Legal Periodicals freely available online (1998 to date). This database includes some seminar material.

LSUC Great Library Catalogue Search: The Great Library at the Law Society of Upper Canada has been cataloguing the Table of Contents from CLE seminar binders for a number of years. Choose "Guided Keyword Search" and choose "Search in . . . Table of Contents" (see screenshot below):

Screenshot of Searching for CLE papers on LSUC Great Library Catalogue:

Custom Google search of Canadian Law Firms, Law Blogs and Journal Articles: Some lawyers publish CLE papers they have presented on their firm's website.

LSUC AccessCLE: The Law Society of Upper Canada has thousands of CLE papers presented at LSUC-sponsored seminars available on this site, which is free to search (you are then given an option to purchase any desired papers). Topics of papers cover Administrative Law, Business, Civil Litigation, Criminal, Employment/Labour, Estates/Trusts, Family, Immigration, Insurance Law, Intellectual Property, Practice Management, and Real Estate.

Legal Research and Writing:
Third Edition

by Ted Tjaden

Softcover 422 pgs.
Published: June 2010
ISBN-13: 9781552211762

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