Susannah Tredwell

1 month ago | slaw.ca | Judith Gaskell |Heather Suttie |Noel Semple |Susannah Tredwell

Belated Happy New Year’s wishes. Things are not looking so happy in the US government so far. Many Civil Service employees are being laid off and/or paid to retire. Information is disappearing or being rewritten on many agency webpages. I just checked out the Department of Justice website that does appear to be reporting business as usual so far. I also found an Associated Press report about why some of the agency webpages went dark in February after an executive order on January 20th.

1 month ago | slaw.ca | Heather Suttie |Noel Semple |Susannah Tredwell |Alexandra Champagne

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. Civil Resolution Tribunal blog 2. Family LLB 3. Know How 4. Hull & Hull Blog 5.

1 month ago | slaw.ca | Heather Suttie |Noel Semple |Susannah Tredwell |Alexandra Champagne

As a supplement to our Sunday Summary each month, Supreme Advocacy LLP in Ottawa presents Supreme One-Liners, a super-short descriptive guide to the most recent decisions at the Supreme Court of Canada. Supreme Advocacy LLP offers its more comprehensive weekly electronic newsletter, Supreme Advocacy Letter, summarizing all Appeals, Oral Judgments and Leaves to Appeal granted. Oral JudgmentsCriminal Law: HomicideR. v.

1 month ago | slaw.ca | Heather Suttie |Noel Semple |Susannah Tredwell |Alexandra Champagne

Fearmongering and fretting about impacts of the Big Four on the legal services sector are the equivalent of tilting at windmills and just as pointless. I’m tired of overheated headlines and breathless reporting. No, I’m not talking about the trials and tribulations of tariffs and trade. I’m talking about the handwringing and blathering around KPMG’s successful application to practice law in Arizona. For the love of all that’s holy, handwringers and blatherskites – knock it off.

2 months ago | slaw.ca | Mark Hunter |Andrew Martin |Jordan Furlong |Susannah Tredwell

Posted in: The traditional business development approaches for lawyers – expensive dinners, conferences, and rigid networking events – are not the only ways to build your book. In today’s rapidly evolving legal landscape, we have an opportunity to reimagine business development into something you will want to do rather than feel obliged to do.