The Wellness Docket - Addressing Bullying and Harassment in Legal Workplaces
Over a year ago, lawyer mental health advocate Beth Beattie wrote a opinion piece for the Canadian Lawyer publication titled “Mental Health and Civility in the Legal Profession: The Elephant in the Room.” She started the article with a call to arms for the profession to pay more attention to the impacts that our own work environments play in contributing to the mental health crisis that plagues our profession.
Renew Your CLIA Excess Insurance Now!
The CLIA Voluntary Excess Program Renewal is now open!
Renewing your excess insurance coverage for the 2026/27 policy year is now easier than ever.
Bite Size CPD May Showcase – Burnout
CLIA is proud to partner with the Law Society of Saskatchewan and Saskatchewan Lawyers’ Insurance Association (SLIA) to present Bite Size CPD.
Free Webinar: Nutrition as Self Care: A Non-Diet, Additive Approach to Well-being
In partnership with the Law Society of Saskatchewan, CLIA will be hosting webinars related to well-being in the legal profession throughout the month of May.
CANCELLED Webinar: Mindfulness and Lawyer Wellbeing
Unfortunately, this upcoming webinar has been cancelled. If you registered for the event, you will have already been notified.
Free Webinar: How to be a Lawyer and a Human Being at the Same Time
In partnership with the Law Society of Saskatchewan, CLIA will be hosting webinars related to well-being in the legal profession throughout the month of May.
Free Webinar: From Law School Debt to Financial Confidence
In partnership with the Law Society of Saskatchewan, CLIA will be hosting webinars related to well-being in the legal profession throughout the month of May.
The Lawyer Brain 2.0: Redrafting our Thoughts for Greater Success
The thinking habits that make lawyers effective advocates can quietly become a source of personal suffering if left unchecked. Here are some ideas of what to do about it.
Removing Hidden Metadata From Word and PDF Documents
Potentially privacy-compromising metadata such as hidden comments from reviewers, revision marks from tracked changes, details about the author, date when a document was created, headers, footers, watermarks, hidden text, or even custom XML data can easily be cleared from a document.
Shovels Down: Lessons from Kapahi Real Estate Inc. v. Elite Real Estate Club of Toronto Inc, 2026 ONSC 1438
Mistakes can and do happen in the legal profession. When they happen, having the insight to recognize the error and then begin taking steps to mitigate the problem is an important skill. There are likely many ways to tackle the problem, but also some which should be avoided. The two worst options available are to pretend the error didn’t happen or make attempts to cover the mistake.
Well-Being in the Legal Profession: Free Well-Being Webinars Throughout the Month of May
In partnership with the Law Society of Saskatchewan, CLIA will be hosting webinars related to well-being in the legal profession throughout the month of May. Building on the Canadian Mental Health Association’s Mental Health Week and the results of the National Study on the Health and Wellness Determinants of Legal Professionals in Canada, we will be sharing free webinars available to members in CLIA jurisdictions.
Bite Size CPD March Showcase – Limitations, Delegation, and Succession
CLIA is proud to partner with the Law Society of Saskatchewan and Saskatchewan Lawyers’ Insurance Association (SLIA) to present Bite Size CPD.
Knowing the Law – Setting Up Research Alerts
A common category of malpractice claims is ignorance of the law. These claims arise when a lawyer does not know or misses a critical aspect of the law, misapplies it, or gives incorrect legal advice.
The Wellness Docket - Leveraging Technological Change To Improve Work Environments: Will We Ever Learn?
Ever wonder what it was like practicing law before computers, email and the internet? If you take time to talk to lawyers and staff from that era, you will hear that everything moved at a slower pace and that lawyers and staff were rarely bothered when they were not physically in the office. Retired Chief Justice of Ontario George Strathy reminisced about those “good old days” in his article “The Litigator and Mental Health”. He wrote:
British Columbia Workers’ Compensation Appeal Tribunal Comments on Acceptable Use of AI
A recent decision from the British Columbia Workers’ Compensation Appeal Tribunal (BC WCAT) considered whether any weight should be afforded to a self-represented party’s written submissions that were admitted to having been prepared with the assistance of AI.
Bite Size CPD February Showcase – Cyber Insurance Obligations and Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
CLIA is proud to partner with the Law Society of Saskatchewan and Saskatchewan Lawyers’ Insurance Association (SLIA) to present Bite Size CPD.
Wellness Toolkit: Resources for Employers
CLIA recognizes the importance of promoting wellness for the profession. To help, we have compiled a repository of wellness resources based on the findings of the National Study on the Health and Wellness Determinants of Legal Professionals in Canada prepared by the Federation of Law Societies of Canada, the Canadian Bar Association and the Université de Sherbrooke.
Law360 Canada Pulse Survey: Lawyers are stressed but satisfied with their careers
The Law360 Canada Pulse Survey was released in November 2025. The survey asks questions related to lawyer satisfaction like compensation satisfaction, work hours, firm culture, a lawyer’s stress, and overall satisfaction. The survey received 263 responses, with an equal split between associates and partners and between males and females.
A Young Lawyer’s Guide to Litigating Adverse Self-Represented Litigants
There is a strange comfort knowing that an opposing party is represented by counsel. Two legal practitioners are both familiar with the rules of civil procedure, and while they take opposed positions on the merits of the litigation, typically, they both have an interest in efficiently guiding their respective clients through the civil litigation process.
Bite Size CPD – Process Management
CLIA is proud to partner with the Law Society of Saskatchewan and Saskatchewan Lawyers’ Insurance Association (SLIA) to present Bite Size CPD.