In this month's episode of Making Rain, our online video business development and practice management coaching column, executive coach Debra Forman kicks off a series on networking and how to...
The first thing is to focus on the quality of your work
By: Lindsay Scott -Monday, August 30, 2010
By now, my law school friends and I have started our articles. We’ve managed to keep in touch and meet up for the occasional drink, despite some of us working in Ottawa and some in Toronto. As the...
Businesses face tougher penalties, shorter periods of employment
By: Andi Balla -Monday, August 30, 2010
Businesses who hire temporary foreign workers need to prepare for tougher regulations scheduled to come into effect in April 2011, say immigration lawyers.
Canadian Lawyer's picks of this country's most powerful lawyers
By: Gail J. Cohen -August 2010
Love to hate them but lists of the tops in any profession are still compulsive reading. Canadian Lawyer is stepping
into the fray with the Top 25 Most Influential in the justice system
and legal profession. As this is the first year, our list will
undoubtedly be controversial but we are ready to brave the slings and
arrows of the...
Rod Snow, a partner at Davis LLP in Whitehorse, practises aboriginal, mining, and environmental law. He was born and raised in Nova Scotia, but found himself in Vancouver after completing his LLM at the University of Washington. In 1993, he moved to the Yukon to help Davis open its first office in the North and stayed ever since. As the first president of the Canadian Bar Association from...
When newly appointed Attorney General Chris Bentley set off on his travels around Ontario, hoping to speak to members of the legal community about criminal and civil matters, he found that everyone really wanted to talk about family law. “For many years we hadn’t done much to family law — just little tweaks in the legislation and the process — but everywhere I went the lawyers and...
The bank drafts looked good, but the grammar in the other lawyer’s e-mail was bad. That’s what made James Morgan suspect he was being targeted for a scam — an attempt to get money out of the small-town Ontario lawyer’s trust account on the strength of forged cheques and a phoney loan to one of his clients.
It is a fundamental principle of contract law, one which public policy favours and subject only to certain well-established and narrowly defined exceptions, that parties are free to determine for themselves the terms of contracts voluntarily entered into. Regrettably, the Supreme Court of Canada recently departed from this principle in Tercon Contractors Ltd. v. British Columbia (Transportation and Highways), thereby injecting uncertainty into the enforceability of contractual arrangements...
Every magazine and web site has a list of the top this or top that. And love or hate the lists, everybody ends up reading them and talking about them. At Canadian Lawyer, we’re no stranger to lists but for the most part we’ve not tackled the most controversial type of list: one about individual lawyers. So about 18 months or so ago, I decided to take on the task and come up with such a list. Its main characteristic, though, had to be that it was different from all other lists in the...
