PLTC needs volunteers

Guest instructors offer PLTC students their valuable, first-hand knowledge and expertise, which becomes an integral part of the students' legal education. If you are a lawyer who has at least three years of practice experience, are willing to volunteer a minimum of half a day per year and are enthusiastic about teaching your area of law, PLTC needs you as a guest instructor.

Typically, guest instructors teach a lesson plan for three hours, once each PLTC session. Volunteers are also needed each session to serve as judges in one evening Criminal Cross-Examination Exercise and in a weekend (Saturday or Sunday) Mock Civil Trial.

Volunteer authors of the Practice Material work closely with the Practice Material Editor to update the Practice Material annually.

PLTC volunteers enjoy

• an opportunity to serve the profession
• recognition and appreciation from students, colleagues, PLTC faculty and staff
• enhanced expertise in a practice area
• detailed lesson plans, notes and readings provided in advance
• an opportunity to meet other volunteers

Subject areas for which volunteers are needed

• Alternative Dispute Resolution (Mediation)
• Buying and Selling a Business
• Civil Litigation (Mock Chambers application)
• Company
• Criminal
• Criminal Cross-Examination (evening session)
• Family
• Law Office Management
• Mock Civil Trial (Saturday or Sunday)
• PPSA
• Professional Responsibility
• Real Estate
• Wills and Estates

Would you like to be a guest instructor or author?

To volunteer to be a guest instructor, please contact Lynn Burns, PLTC Deputy Director, by telephone at (604) 697-5808 or by email at lburns@lsbc.org. Please state the subject areas you are volunteering to teach and the PLTC session or sessions for which you are available:

February to April
May to July (Vancouver)
May to July (Victoria)
August/September to November

To volunteer to be an author, please contact Morag MacLean, PLTC Practice Material Editor, by telephone at (604) 697-5811 or by email at mmaclean@lsbc.org.