PD Programming and Archived Videos

Making a move to long-term care can be challenging for the individual and their loved ones. Join our panel of experienced legal and health care professionals to learn how to better help your clients navigate this transition. Topics covered will include:

• Substitute decision-making;
• Addressing financial barriers; and
• Exploring long-term care expectations.

Participants will come away from this program with a greater understanding of the long-term care system and practical tips for assisting clients during a time of significant change.

Register for Navigating Long-Term Care

An interactive lunchtime discussion with Dr. Tara Kiran, to learn more about the newest Covid-19 vaccines for children aged 5-11 and important updates about the Omicron variant.

In this session, our expert and special guest will:

• Outline the effectiveness and safety of the vaccines for this age group
• Dispel any myths that currently exist
• How you can prepare your children for vaccination
• Discuss some of what is known about the new Omicron variant
• Answer your questions in real-time

View Your Vaccine Questions Answered

Original Date: December 9, 2021

As a parent, ensuring your children have access to the best education is of primary importance. As lawyers, understanding the rights of your children is key to their success in the school system. From special education needs, COVID supports, and requests for accommodation to responding to expulsions and suspensions, making sure your children’s needs are first and foremost are key. Join our panel of experts as they advise you, as a lawyer-parent, how to ensure the best chance at success of your children in the education system.

View guide to Education Law for the Lawyer-Parent

Original Date: Wednesday, June 9, 2021

Retirement homes are often grouped with or confused with Long-Term Care Homes, but are fundamentally different in significant ways. At their core, Retirement Homes are a tenancy and retain the rights and obligations associated therewith in addition to further obligations under the Retirement Homes Act, 2010. Join us to unravel the legal complexities of these unique entities, as we explore:

View Your Critical Introduction to Retirement Home Tenancies

Original Date: Wednesday, May 19, 2021

Parenting children in any situation can be very challenging, but as co-parents having two different households and two different ways of managing situations in dealing with your children, a pandemic of the current nature adds significant concerns for both parties.  You may have a court order or a separation agreement which deals with parenting, but now that a pandemic is upon you, how do you adapt to lock down measures, closure of schools, daycare limits, working from home vs. going out to work? What if you don’t have an order or an agreement, how are you managing to navigate these challenges?  Gain key strategies on how to balance parenting responsibilities during these challenging times.  

Christine Marchetti of Marchetti Lee LLP Family Law and Seema Jain of Jain Family Law and Mediation answer some of your most pressing questions and concerns.

View Co-Parenting through the Pandemic

Original Date: Thursday, May 13, 2021

Even the most diligent lawyers often neglect their finances due to lack of time and competing priorities. Financial planning essentials for Lawyers helps by providing a clear overview of the key financial considerations to address at different stages in your legal career, whether it's growing your wealth, protecting your family, planning for your retirement or looking after your parents. This presentation will help you gain more clarity and confidence regarding your finances. It will be presented by Elke Rubach, a former lawyer and the founder of Rubach Wealth, a Toronto-based firm that works with lawyers to create holistic financial plans.

View Financial Planning Essentials for Lawyers

Social isolation, peer-group stressors and social pressures in our current climate are particularly acute for young children and teenagers alike. This past year has brought forth so much instability and change, that even the most resilient individuals are finding it difficult to adapt. If you are a parent struggling with helping your children in these stressful times, you are not alone. Join expert Psychotherapist, Janna Comrie, for an engaging session focused on mental health and wellness in children, teenagers and young adults. How has today’s environment changed the world of mental health? How can you best support your children through their unique challenges? This program will feature practical strategies and point you to helpful (often overlooked) community resources. Please bring all of your questions for the interactive Q&A portion of the session.

View Taking stock of Youth Mental Health

From wellness offerings to child care services to creating opportunities to build our community, the OBA is committed to serving the whole lawyer from their desk to their doorstep. The current global crisis continues to create new challenges and stressors for children, teenagers, and parents alike with social distancing guidelines, new school procedures (whether online or in-person), and changes within family systems and routines. During this session of the OBA’s Mindful Lawyer CPD Series, Dr. Catherine Cappadocia will identify some of the most salient stressors that children, teenagers, and parents are experiencing in today’s climate, and provide participants with best practices for both supporting our children and taking care of ourselves as parents. The program will feature practical, evidence-based strategies for navigating today’s difficult circumstances, and managing the stressors that most often impact our families.

View Managing Parenting Stress

Join Consulting Occupational Therapist, Nira Rittenberg (www.nirarittenberg.com), for a discussion on working through daily challenges related to elder care. Nira will provide us with key supports and strategies to tackle the sensitive and difficult issues that arise when caring for an elderly person and which have become even more difficult in the last few months.

View Elder Care Support

We are all doing the best we can in an unprecedented situation, but sometimes small adjustments can make the biggest difference in the world. Join lawyer, and professional coach, Deborah Mecklinger, while she helps us work through some of our daily challenges and provides key supports and strategies so we can all manage a successful home front. This session will be interactive, so please bring your questions and any challenges you are currently facing.

View Managing Remote work from home

The way in which women are practicing law is changing. Women who previously left the practice of law altogether to raise young children are increasingly forging their own path, their own way. This new path is not without its challenges. Join us for candid discussions with solo and small firm practitioners in the midst of their own revolutions.

View Rethinking "Having it All"

Join us for the second annual Life and Law Series, Women Lawyers: Sharing Success Strategies where women lawyers share their powerful stories of courage, frustration and triumphs, and chronicle their individual choices often made against considerable odds to create full and engaging professional lives.  

View Life and Law Series

More men than ever play an active role in child care and they face struggles with balancing home and work. What can men do to support equality in the legal boardroom and the courtroom? Hear practical strategies on what can be done to help both men and women fully participate in their families while using their full talents on the job. Our panelists will address the role that paternity leave takes in the modern office, how we value caregiving, and how modern men define success. Join us for a practical discussion about what can men do to further equality for women, men, mothers, and fathers in law.

Fathers in Law