From LegaltechTO BYOD Risk Management Strategies and Pitfalls
One of the many excellent presentations that I attended at Legaltech TO on September 24 focused on a couple of ways to deal with BYOD in legal. Steve Heck, Regional CIO at Microsoft Canada offered the...
View ArticleElder Law Conference Coming to Vancouver in November: Save the Date!
The Continuing Legal Education Society of British Columbia, Canada’s leading providing of continuing professional training for lawyers, and the Canadian Centre for Elder Law are hosting the Canadian...
View ArticleReminder: New Quebec Code of Civil Procedures Effective January 1, 2016
Quebec lawyers are reminded that they need to prepare for upcoming changes to the Quebec Code of Civil Procedures passed into law on February 20, 2014. These significant changes are in effect January...
View ArticleLogic Models and Legal Education
Over the weekend, I had opportunity to speak with a high school student about the path to law school and into the legal profession. We spoke at some length about the importance of her pre-law...
View ArticleFamily Law and Psychology Course Coming to Vancouver: Save the Date!
A brand new two-day course, “Assessments and Interventions: The Intersection of Family Law and Psychology,” is coming to the Pan Pacific in Vancouver, British Columbia in March. The course is being put...
View ArticleEmployee Privacy, on and Off the Job, in an Era of Technology
At the past OBA Institute this week, the Labour & Employment and Privacy & Access to Information sections conducted a joint session on employee privacy, one of the most rapidly expanding and...
View ArticleOf Conference Debriefs and #ABATECHSHOW 2016 Chicago Travel Tips
A good conference can leave little time to explore a city itself. Hence, I’ve pathetic little Chicago lore to pass on. No Field Museum meditations, no Magnificent Mile shopping tips. Chicago may not...
View ArticleBarreau du Quebec Position on Hourly Billing Report Long Overdue
On March 24, 2016, the Barreau du Quebec (Quebec Bar Association) released a report « La tarification horaire à l’heure de la réflexion » (in French only and translated to say Hourly Billing: A Time...
View ArticleAn Inside Look at Canada’s First Food Law & Policy Conference
Big news, friends: Canada’s first food law & policy conference is happening in a little less than a month. The Future of Food Law & Policy in Canada is this November 3-4 at the Schulich School...
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Strategies for Racialized Licensees
It’s with a tad bit of irony that the professions charged with fighting inequities and combating racism, both explicit and institutional, is itself one of the most regressive communities there is when...
View ArticleCourthouse Libraries BC Hosting Webinar for Canadian Lawyers on the Impact of...
I feel I must write this quick, as every day the terrain shifts and the battle lines move in the escalating conflict between the 45th POTUS and virtually the entire machinery of justice. FYI, the ABA...
View ArticleThe Mandatory Nature of CPD
Love it or hate it, we all have to do continuing professional development (CPD). One lawyer hated it so much that he refused to do it at all. When the Law Society of Manitoba automatically suspended...
View ArticleAsking the Right Questions at the 2017 Isaac Pitblado Lectures
It is said that change is the one constant in life. While personally, I’ve no reason to doubt the truth of that statement, as a member of the legal profession for the past 20(+) years, I sometimes have...
View ArticleEquality, Diversity, and Inclusion Are Components of Competence
What does it mean to be a lawyer? Is it to possess an encyclopedic knowledge the law? To use this knowledge to make money? Is being a lawyer simply just another way to make money (as some who correctly...
View ArticleReinventing Competence
What do lawyers need to be competent for the practice of law today, and even more, for tomorrow? The critical importance of at least a foundational knowledge of the law, and the ability to conduct...
View ArticleHipster Antitrust’s Potential to Make Competition Law Sexy Again
A renewed scrutiny of corporate governance was inevitable in light of the current political climate and the backdrop of the recent recession and notable market failures. This revisionist approach...
View ArticleThe Pitch Returns to Toronto
In 2016, the CBA hosted “The Pitch” in Ottawa, a showcase of legal innovation in Canada. The event was a natural extension of the CBA Futures Initiative, helping the organization take the lead for...
View ArticleShould Mandatory CLE Require Technology in Particular?
Some states in the US, notably now including North Carolina and Florida, require that part of one’s mandatory continuing legal education include education on techology. Florida’s rule requires three...
View ArticlePodcasting Legal Entrepreneurship in Action
The education of the practice of law does not happen in classrooms, and some would argue that it shouldn’t. Collecting the anthology of experiences by practitioners is one of the immense potentials of...
View ArticleJudicial Review Properly Initiated at Divisional Court
The first stop in the lawsuit against the Statement of Principles concluded this month, with the Ontario Superior Court of Justice upholding a motion by the law society to transfer the matter to the...
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