Effective lawyering with clients leaving abusive relationships
- If you are a practicing lawyer, your LSO number and year of call to the bar
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
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