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Montreal lands Meritas global meeting
Canada will play host to one of the largest international events organized by a global legal alliance, as up to 400 lawyers from 173 firms across the world are scheduled to attend the Meritas annual...
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CBA and ABA reach pact for stronger ties
As one of the world’s largest legal conferences kicks off in Toronto today, the Canadian Bar Association and its U.S. counterpart have announced a groundbreaking deal that ushers in an era of greater...
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Victims' advocate says more energy should be invested in restitution programs
Justice systems in the North should invest more energy in developing restitution processes that work, according to a leading Canadian victims’ advocate. Irvin Waller, a professor at the University of...
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Commemorating the Paisley snail case
While thousands of golf enthusiasts flock every year to the sport’s Scottish spiritual home, St. Andrews, tort litigators are more interested in a small town about 150 kilometres west of there that a...
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Pet peeves of in-house counsel: Don’t put juniors on our files
With an eagle eye on costs and the need for help meeting their own goals, in-house counsel are looking for outside law firm relationships they can rely on and when they do, they tend to stay...
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New formula for success
RANCHOS PALOS VERDES, Calif. — A new formula based on what general counsel would really like was just one of several useful takeaways from the Marketing Partner Forum’s keynote presentation by Trevor...
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Idle no more 'has it right': LaForme
The Idle No More movement “has it right,” said Ontario Court of Appeal Justice Harry LaForme in a speech at the OBA Institute’s Aboriginal law session.Aboriginal Canadians continue to be treated as...
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Montreal lands Meritas global meeting
Canada will play host to one of the largest international events organized by a global legal alliance, as up to 400 lawyers from 173 firms across the world are scheduled to attend the Meritas annual...
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CBA and ABA reach pact for stronger ties
As one of the world’s largest legal conferences kicks off in Toronto today, the Canadian Bar Association and its U.S. counterpart have announced a groundbreaking deal that ushers in an era of greater...
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Victims' advocate says more energy should be invested in restitution programs
Justice systems in the North should invest more energy in developing restitution processes that work, according to a leading Canadian victims’ advocate. Irvin Waller, a professor at the University of...
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Commemorating the Paisley snail case
While thousands of golf enthusiasts flock every year to the sport’s Scottish spiritual home, St. Andrews, tort litigators are more interested in a small town about 150 kilometres west of there that a...
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Pet peeves of in-house counsel: Don’t put juniors on our files
With an eagle eye on costs and the need for help meeting their own goals, in-house counsel are looking for outside law firm relationships they can rely on and when they do, they tend to stay...
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Kicking it off at the ACC in L.A.
The Ontario Chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel kicked off the organization's annual conference in Los Angeles Sunday night with a party hosted at Lucky Strikes. Calgary lawyers David...
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CASL is coming and it’s going to affect your business
LOS ANGELES — Canada’s anti-spam law may not be finalized yet but a panel of in-house counsel and a marketing regulatory lawyer were sounding the alarm bells this week advising if you aren’t prepared,...
View ArticleHow to succeed in law by actually trying
BOSTON — At a panel on improving gender equity and performance at the Association of Bar Associations meeting here Saturday, only a handful of people showed up to hear the speakers. So instead of...
View ArticleLegal Lean on the horizon
Jason Moyse and Aron Solomon put together an "unconference" looking at New Law and the Legal Lean movement. The LegalLean conference was a small but sold-out affair held at the MaRS Discovery District...
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McLachlin challenges profession to embrace innovation as CBA conference begins
CALGARY — As the Canadian Bar Association conference got underway this morning, Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin opened with a keynote speech emphasizing the need to balance the pressing need to change...
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New CBA president touts role in helping lawyers adapt to change
CALGARY — Mentoring is among the priorities as Ridout & Maybee LLP partner Janet Fuhrer takes over the presidency of the Canadian Bar Association. “When lawyers help lawyers, it benefits everyone,”...
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In-house leaders advocate measuring to manage better
As Canadian corporate legal departments continue to grow in size, collecting data about spending and benchmarking against how others perform is becoming “table stakes,” a room of in-house lawyers heard...
View ArticleSocial media posts a growing aspect of litigation holds
BOSTON — Information gleaned from social media should be top of mind when lawyers are considering e-discovery requests in litigation matters ranging from personal injury to labour and employment and...
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