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Slaw- Tips Tuesday October 17, 2017Here are excerpts from the most recent tips on SlawTips, the site that each week offers up useful advice, short and to the point, on research, writing, and practice. Practice New Lawyers: Document All Client Interactions Ian Hu New lawyers, I hope this tip will follow you well for your whole career. Begin doing this now and do it every time, to the point whe […]Administrator
- Technology Remains an Afterthought for Many Within the Legal System October 17, 2017Back in late September, the Court of the Future Network, in partnership with the Institut des hautes études sur la justice and the Cyberjustice Laboratory, organised its annual Court tour which – this year – took place in California, home of Silicone Valley and many technological innovators. For this very reason, the tour took a technological turn and focuss […]Karim Benyekhlef and Nicolas Vermeys
- Monday’s Mix October 16, 2017Each 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.Environmental Law and Litigation 2. Startup Source […]Administrator
- Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion Are Components of Competence October 16, 2017What does it mean to be a lawyer? Is it to possess an encyclopedic knowledge the law? To use this knowledge to make money? Is being a lawyer simply just another way to make money (as some who correctly identify the lack of business skills among lawyers as one of the major challenges for innovation or reform point out)? What differentiates the law from other […]Omar Ha-Redeye
- Summaries Sunday: SOQUIJ October 15, 2017Every week we present the summary of a decision handed down by a Québec court provided to us by SOQUIJ and considered to be of interest to our readers throughout Canada. SOQUIJ is attached to the Québec Department of Justice and collects, analyzes, enriches, and disseminates legal information in Québec. VENTE : La somme à laquelle les acheteurs de pièces de […]Administrator
- Summaries Sunday: Supreme Advocacy October 15, 2017On one Sunday each month we bring you a summary from Supreme Advocacy LLP of recent decisions at the Supreme Court of Canada. Supreme Advocacy LLP offers a weekly electronic newsletter, Supreme Advocacy Letter, to which you may subscribe. It’s a summary of all appeals and leaves to appeal granted, so you know what the S.C.C. will soon be dealing with (August […]Administrator
- Compliment or Sexual Harassment: Where Do You Draw the Line? October 12, 2017Written wholly by Doug Macleod Employment and labour lawyer at MacLeod Law on First Reference Talks Despite a number of legislative initiatives that are intended to reduce and ultimately eliminate sexual harassment in society, sexual harassment continues to be a problem in Ontario’s workplaces. One of the more nuanced areas of sexual harassment law is what k […]Yosie Saint-Cyr
- The ABCs of Client Classification October 12, 2017How can you save time and money marketing your law firm? Drop a few clients. Yes, drop. Some lawyers are better than others at saying no to taking on certain clients. Some groups can more easily spell out the criteria for their ideal client than others. And some firms are better than others about enforcing client intake policies. But very few lawyers, practi […]Margaret McCaffery
- Cars and the Data They Share October 11, 2017Anyone interested in cars and the data they will increasingly collect should read the article in the November Automobile magazine titled The Big Data Boom – How the race to monetize the connected car will drive change in the auto industry. It talks about how much data might be generated (4,000 GB per day), how that sheer volume will be handled, and how it mi […]David Canton
- Wednesday: What’s Hot on CanLII October 11, 2017Each Wednesday we tell you which three English-language cases and which French-language case have been the most viewed* on CanLII and we give you a small sense of what the cases are about. For this last week: 1. R. v. Lloyd, 2016 SCC 13 [1] Parliament has the power to proscribe conduct as criminal and determine the punishment for it, and judges have the duty […]Administrator
- Tips Tuesday October 17, 2017
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- Can we balance work and our personal life? July 14, 2014By: Hilary Bowser It can be extremely difficult to work in the field of law and make time for our family and friends. Many believe that to be successful in our careers we must make...
- The Struggle to Juggle. July 9, 2014by Stephanie Hannah If you’re like me, you’re passionate about having a career that challenges you and a family to share all of life’s accomplishments with. But, is there really an opportunity for both? More...
- A Balanced Life: Reality or Illusion? June 23, 2014By George McLaren You must have heard the clichés repeated many times over. “There’s no rest for the wicked, (or the righteous, for that matter),” depending on the degree of fondness ascribed to the subject....
- “To Be, Or Not To Be”: Work-Life Balance June 23, 2014By: Iaroslavna Serenko Working at a large law firm in Toronto, I sadly observed tens of files on every desk each day. With such enormous amount of work, feelings of accomplishment, happiness, and relief are...
- Balancing Act: Career or Personal Life June 23, 2014by Kate Lucoff Creating the perfect balance between career and personal life has always been a challenge in any profession, but particularly when it comes to such high demanding professions as a lawyer or...
- Having a successful law career and a personal life is possible!!! June 23, 2014By Carlos Vera Balancing the professional and personal life could be a difficult goal in the modern life. In some professions this could result almost impossible. One of the most demanding and time consuming professions...
- Attaining a Work-life Balance in Todays World June 23, 2014By: Maneet Salh Lawyers have one of the toughest jobs when it comes to balancing work and life. It has become very difficult to live the life one wants and the life one needs to...
- Work-life balance is it possible? June 23, 2014By: Amber McVittie-Quinn It is no secret that the legal profession is a demanding one. Although it is glamourized in the media, it is well known that the practice puts a large amount of pressure...
- Women, work life balance and the law June 23, 2014By: Vicky Sparks The idea of work life balance is whispered about with the awe and mystery of the loch ness monster in most professions, but especially law. What is this mythical balance they speak...
- Women in law: achieving work-life balance June 23, 2014By: Inna Maister Nowadays it is difficult for women to be an excellent worker and mother at the same time. Especially it relates to women, who work in sphere of law. It is commonly...
- Can we balance work and our personal life? July 14, 2014
