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How much is independence worth? Canadian lawyers may be asking this question as they prepare to pay their annual law society dues. If the rest of the world is any indication, the self-governing model that underlies Canada’s legal profession may soon face a day of reckoning.

In late October, after fighting off lawsuits by suppliers for outstanding bills, forestry company Thunder Bay Fine Papers found itself in court facing a bid to put it into receivership.

Even in the thick of some of Canada’s most distasteful cases, Vancouver lawyer Richard Peck’s class shines through.

Our annual survey of in-house counsel shows that 85 per cent of the time law departments don’t rate the services of outside law firms as any more impressive than their rivals.

Not everyone thinks the new spousal support guidelines are perfect, but they do go a long way to eliminating wildly different decisions on awards.

A former McCarthy Tétrault lawyer is suing the firm over sex discrimination. Diane LaCalamita speaks exclusively with Canadian Lawyer about the case.

South America may not be the easiest place to do business, but the work and opportunities available for resource-based industries — and the lawyers who represent them — can be most interesting and very profitable.

It's about much more than tha creating sustainability for future generations, exemplifying a conscience for global warming, or generally just making the world a better place — although all of the above add nobility of purpose.

Could going green boost billables? Definitely, says Andrew A. Taylor, an energy and environmental practitioner and co-chairman of Ogilvy Renault LLP’s clean-tech team, which specializes in providing legal services for innovative environmental entrepreneurs.