Deploying a knowledge management system is essential for any law firm, but it requires buy-in from those who will use it, and those resistant to change.

Not only are associates coveted here at home but also law firms operating in international waters are eying Canada's legal talent pool. To protect the future of your firm, you need a strategy that addresses the concerns of today's associates and makes them feel like part of your family.

Almost 50 years ago, Truman Capote visited convicted murderer Perry Smith in the Kansas State Penitentiary. You can read all about it in Capote’s book In Cold Blood, which was recently made into a critically acclaimed film.

Health care legislation, tobacco litigation, securities commission and oil boom are topics of Western conversation.

 

Lawyer Roy Filion leads one of the country’s long-standing and leading labour boutiques, Filion Wakely Thorup Angeletti LLP, with offices in Toronto and London, Ont. He talks about the challenges and advantages to running a management-side labour firm in a growing world of national law firms and specialization within large legal practices.

It is an honour to write for Canadian Lawyer, and follow someone as thoughtful and principled as Karen Selick.
Unlike Karen, however, I describe myself as a liberal feminist. This is a new development, and I did not disclose it until after I accepted the offer to write.
I have chosen this appellation because no one else seems to be a liberal feminist these days — or a secular humanist, or a gay rights advocate. At least not when it counts.

 

Corporate commercial lawyer André Vautour, managing partner of Québec’s Desjardins Ducharme, LLP, talks about the challenges of running an independent regional law firm - with offices in Montréal and Québec City - at a time when the legal market is consolidating.