Today's wire service announced the merger of McMillan (as McMillan, Binch, Stuart, Berry, Dunn, Corrigan & Howland ultimately slimmed down to) and Lang Michener.
The Post, Gazette, and Globe all… [more]
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Inspired by Ted Tjaden's custom search engine that principally queries Canadian law firms, I've put together a Google Custom Search Engine for Canadian law blogs. The engine queries only the… [more]
A ZDNet article by Denise Howell caught my eye. It is titled Four legal predictions for Foursquare. David Canton mentioned foursquare in this recent post and Connie's post about RockMelt… [more]
In addition to our post last Monday, here is the video of what happened at Dalhousie Law School during the Wickwire Lectures.
Our thanks to Richard Devlin and his colleagues… [more]
I attended the Social Intranet Summit in Vancouver on October 26th and 27th, a conference sponsored by ThoughtFarmer, a vendor of social Intranet software. The audience was a mix of… [more]
♬ Little lies
Little lies
Making up tragedies
Nothing is as it seems
Who cares what is real…♬… [more]
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Google's been speeding things up lately, as you'll know if you've turned on Google Instant for your searches. (See Google’s Instant Search: An Alphabet Book.)
Now Google's rolling out Instant… [more]
I recently read an interesting article called “For LPO clients, small is beautiful… [more]”. What makes it interesting is it highlights the valuable role of “smaller” LPOs.
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This week in biotech was very stimulating, with public funds flowing to a variety of projects.
The Ontario Network of Excellence (ONE) got two new members this week and Minister… [more]
Perverse as it may be in November to contemplate Spring, today's postings on the law of time and Bills prompt me to dredge out the wonderfully quirky piece of parliamentary… [more]
This time of year is known for many notable culture touchstones, the changing of the leaves, the time change Halloween, Remembrance Day and usually… [more] a new legislative agenda in Parliament
On Friday Adobe announced two new products that demonstrate the company is increasingly embracing cloud-based technologies.
The first product, Adobe SendNow, allows you to send large files to a single… [more]
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