Quebec-based street and traffic light supplier Tassimco Technologies Canada Inc. has pleaded guilty to bid rigging following a Competition Bureau investigation.
For many law firm associates, at least a few moments of the distracted thought which rounds off their billables is spent considering whether they are at the right firm.
Reporter Matt Powell spoke to University of Ottawa communications officer Amanda Turnbull about the upcoming "So you think you can teach" event for the school's French law students. click...
Facebook deputy general counsel Mark Howitson is itching for a fight that will settle how its content is treated under the U.S. Stored Communications Act. Editor Gail Cohen reports on his speech...
There are at least five important questions every in-house counsel with responsibilities in Ontario needs to answer with respect to legal compliance with Bill 168 — amendments to Ontario’s...
When contemplating disability accommodations in legal proceedings, a lawyer might think instinctively about the rights of accused persons in criminal trials, or perhaps the common TV image of a...
Personal injury lawyer and former Quebec justice minister Marc Bellemare thought he’d seen the summit of injustice 20 years ago, when a drunken army corporal who killed four young people during a high-speed chase through a Quebec City suburb received $86,000 in indemnities for a lost eye — twice the amount the victims’ grieving families got in total.
If there is a battle being waged over the tenets of Canada’s Constitution and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the ground where the fight is taking place could very well be in labour and employment law. In recent years, the Supreme Court of Canada has been called upon to decide on myriad constitutional challenges, including the Charter obligations of jurisdictions or employers.
Rebecca Hiltz LeBlanc has performed for up to 10,000 people at a time, but these days she faces intimidating, single-member audiences — in the courtroom. “It’s much more frightening to be in front of one judge,” says the associate with the Nova Scotia firm Boyne Clarke.
Now that several U.S. law firms have run away from the lockstep model for associate compensation, many Canadian firms are looking to move in the same direction, though not at the same pace.
It is a commonly held perception that Alberta is a business-friendly province. With little red tape, skinny regulations, modest taxes, a sizeable pool of entrepreneurs, a can-do attitude, near-absent unionization, political invariability, abundant resources, solid infrastructure, a reasonable cost of living, great skiing, private liquor stores, and a young, well-educated workforce, it is difficult to argue against this perception.
As I sit down to write, expectations are that British confectionary icon Cadbury PLC will be swallowed whole by Kraft Foods Inc. in an acquisition worth $19.3 billion despite Kraft’s top shareholder Warren Buffett calling the takeover a “bad deal.”
