An ongoing objective for the 1998-99 course year is to clearly communicate the purposes of the Bar Admission Course. Professional responsibility and ethics will continue to be taught and tested pervasively throughout the course. Students resolve ethical issues and dilemmas and engage in problem solving in order to develop and demonstrate an awareness of professional responsibility matters. Legal Accounting will continue to be offered in a self-paced computer assisted format through Athabasca University. The course will continue to be taught by more than 400 volunteer instructors who are members of the practicing bar and judiciary.
Volunteers also contribute to course material development and updating.
This tremendous volunteer commitment is appreciated by bar ad students, LESA administrators, and the Law Society. It is one of the strengths of the Alberta course. The compulsory attendance requirement for the course is maintained with administrative discretion for excusable absences. Further details of the 1998-99 Bar Admission Course are available from the Legal Education Society of Alberta. Planning and implementing improvements to the course are now well underway, and LESA staff look forward to meeting and serving a new group of students with a new course this summer and fall.