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2 months ago | 
slaw.ca | Andrew Martin |Jordan Furlong |Susannah Tredwell |Catherine Morris
Each Monday we present brief excerpts of recent posts from five of Canada’s award-winning legal blogs chosen at random* from more than 80 recent Clawbie winners. In this way we hope to promote their work, with their permission, to as wide an audience as possible. This week the randomly selected blogs are 1. Legal Sourcery 2. Sport Law Blog 3. Eloise Gratton 4. Labour Pains 5.
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2 months ago | 
slaw.ca | Andrew Martin |Jordan Furlong |Susannah Tredwell |Catherine Morris
Posted in: I typically write about lawyer discipline, not judicial discipline.
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2 months ago | 
slaw.ca | Jordan Furlong |Susannah Tredwell |Catherine Morris |Kari D. Boyle
The 2025 Edition of the “Report on the State of the US Legal Market,” from the Thomson Reuters Institute and the Center on Ethics and the Legal Profession at Georgetown Law, is a pleasantly comfortable variation on this longstanding publication’s familiar theme of “Large American law firms make astonishing amounts of money but would still benefit from running even slightly like actual businesses.” Receiving a new version of this report and its consistent message every January is a welcome new...
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
slaw.ca | Mark Hunter |Susannah Tredwell |Catherine Morris
Each Monday we present brief excerpts of recent posts from five of Canada’s award-winning legal blogs chosen at random* from more than 80 recent Clawbie winners. In this way we hope to promote their work, with their permission, to as wide an audience as possible. This week the randomly selected blogs are 1. Double Aspect 2. The Defence Toolkit 3. Durant Barristers Blog 4. ReconciliAction YEG 5.
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Nov 29, 2024 | 
slaw.ca | Mark Hunter |Susannah Tredwell |Catherine Morris
In the super-competitive professional services landscape, the ability to deliver an exceptional client experience continues to be a critical differentiator. While firms have traditionally focused on technical expertise and functional capabilities, clients now demand a more holistic, client-centric approach.
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Nov 28, 2024 | 
slaw.ca | Susannah Tredwell |Catherine Morris |Judith Gaskell |Gideon Christian
In January 2022, headlines across Canadian media ignited a controversy involving Kaycee Madu, Canada’s first Black provincial justice minister. The reports centered on Madu receiving a traffic ticket from a police officer after a traffic stop and subsequently calling the police chief to discuss his concerns over the traffic stop.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
slaw.ca | Susannah Tredwell |Catherine Morris |Judith Gaskell |Jennifer Wondracek
This submission is part of a column swap with the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) bimonthly member magazine, AALL Spectrum. Published six times a year, AALL Spectrum is designed to further professional development and education within the legal information industry. Slaw and the AALL Spectrum board have agreed to hand-select several columns each year as part of this exchange. Tips for drafting effective AI prompts.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
slaw.ca | Susannah Tredwell |Catherine Morris |Judith Gaskell |Michael Litchfield
Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming nearly every sector of society, and the legal field is no exception. While AI is rapidly reshaping legal practice, legal education risks falling behind. Surveys of university graduates indicate that they feel unprepared for the workforce due to a lack of AI integration into their education. Legal regulators like the Law Society of Ontario, emphasize that lawyers must understand AI’s risks and benefits to meet professional responsibility standards.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
slaw.ca | Susannah Tredwell |Catherine Morris |Judith Gaskell |Michael Litchfield
If you’re trying to find government information that is generally not made available, it may be helpful to look in databases of information released as part of an FOI request. Note that availability of this information varies by jurisdiction. The Government of Canada provides a database of completed Access to Information (ATI) requests made to the Government of Canada after January 2020.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
slaw.ca | Catherine Morris |Judith Gaskell |Michael Litchfield |Melanie Neufeld
Each Monday we present brief excerpts of recent posts from five of Canada’s award-winning legal blogs chosen at random* from more than 80 recent Clawbie winners. In this way we hope to promote their work, with their permission, to as wide an audience as possible. This week the randomly selected blogs are 1. IP Osgoode 2. Legal Feeds 3. Stewart Sharma Harsanyi Immigration Law Firm Blog 4. Canadian Combat Sports Law Blog 5.
