Workshop Facilitators will work in pairs to guide large and small group discussions and facilitate student activities during face-to-face workshops.  The facilitators will provide oversight to the students, encouraging professional behavior and active participation and engagement by all students in workshop activities and discussions. It is not necessary that facilitators are experts in all skills covered over the week.

Prior to the session, CPLED will provide facilitators with workshop training and with detailed Facilitator and Student Handbooks that will guide the various workshops. Facilitators are required to develop an intimate knowledge of both the Facilitator and Student Handbooks. It is imperative that the facilitator adhere, and ensure students adhere, to the workshop schedule and cover the requisite content.

Facilitators may commit to attending an entire one-week session, or a portion thereof.  

Qualifications and skills

• Practised in Alberta, Manitoba, Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia and/or Saskatchewan for a minimum of five years
• Facilitation skills

If you are interested in applying for this role, complete the application form.

The Virtual Firm Assessor (Business Law Assessor, Criminal Law Assessor, Family Law Assessor, Real Estate Assessor) is a lawyer who is experienced in a practice area and within the jurisdiction of the students to which he/she is assigned during the Virtual Law Firm practice rotations. 

The simulations will require students to manage a matter from inception to finalization. These deliverables may take the form of video recorded advocacy, interviews, negotiations, written correspondence, memorandums, contracts, or court documents.  Students will upload their assignments to the online learning environment and assessors will use a competency-based rubric to mark the assignments and to provide developmental feedback to students. 

CPLED will train assessors on the rubrics and provision of constructive feedback. As part of training, assessors will mark sample assignments, which will be bench marked to ensure consistency. CPLED uses an online plagiarism program to detect potential breaches of academic integrity.

Qualifications and skills

• Subject matter expert in one of the practice areas 
• Practised in Alberta, Manitoba, Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia and/or Saskatchewan for a minimum of five years

If you are interested in applying for this role, complete the application form.

The Practice Manager is a lawyer who can commit to following a group of students over the three-month period during which they complete their Virtual Law Firm practice rotations. The practice manager will perform two functions: assessing students’ practice management skills and acting as a coach/mentor.

In the assessment function, the practice manager will review the students’ practice management tasks (conflict checks, diary dates, etc.) to ensure they have been completed. CPLED uses Clio Legal Software for practice management.

As a coach and mentor, practice managers will review the results of students’ assessments from their virtual law firm assignments and monitor students’ self-management skills (time-management, interpersonal communication, etc.). Practice managers will conduct a thirty-minute video call with each student during each virtual law firm rotation to answer questions, provide constructive feedback and advice, and help students to reflect on their performance and plan for continued competency development, focusing on areas of concern.

CPLED will train practice managers on the use of Clio Legal Software and on student assessment processes.

Qualifications and skills

• Required to devote 3 hours/student over 3 months
• Experienced in formal/informal mentoring of young lawyers
• Practised in Alberta, Manitoba, Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia and/or Saskatchewan for a minimum of five years

If you are interested in applying for this role, complete the application form.

Capstone Assessors will mark assignments completed by students during the final phase of PREP, the Capstone session. The Capstone session is a week-long, face-to-face session where students will work through a simulated matter. Some Capstone Assessors will attend portions of the Capstone session to observe and mark students oral skills such as interviewing, negotiation and advocacy. Others will mark student’s written submissions using CPLED’s online learning platform.

CPLED will train assessors on the marking process.

Qualifications and skills:

• Practised in Alberta, Manitoba, Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia and/or Saskatchewan for a minimum of five years

If you are interested in applying for this role, complete the application form.

Students who participate in PREP will have opportunities to practice, develop competence and be assessed in client interviewing. CPLED will train individuals to participate as standardized, simulated clients who will be interviewed by students in both video interviews and face-to-face interviews. CPLED will also train simulated clients to score student performance according to a standardized competency-based rubric. Simulated clients participate in high-stakes student assessments and must commit to dates of training and assessment, as well as fulfilling the client-role in a standardized manner.

Qualifications and skills:

• Strong communication skills
• Ability to follow detailed instructions and reproduce simulation consistently
• Accepts constructive feedback and adjusts accordingly
• Reliable, courteous and professional

If you are interested in applying for this role  complete the application form.