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« Older EntriesLawyers and Their Clients’ Values
A couple of days ago, the New York Times feature “Room for Debate” began commentary (“Attacking Lawyers From the Right and Left“) on a story involving a group called Keep America Safe. (I hate the power we give to “proper nouns,” letting them force us to say words that we’d never otherwise utter. But that’s [...]
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Legal IT 4.0 – April 26 & 27, 2010 in Montreal
This year’s Legal IT conference, Legal IT 4.0, is scheduled for April 26 and 27th. Each year the conference looks at information technology and its impact on the law. I was fortunate to attend last year’s conference, and found the audience and presenters to be a stimulating mix of thought leaders and those new to [...]
Posted in Canada, Conferences and Seminars, Continuing Education - Lawyers, Continuing Education - Technology, Courts, E-Discovery, Impact of IT, Information Technology, Judges, Law Firm Management, Law Practice, Law and technology, Legal Technology, Québec, Web Applications | No Comments »>
Immigrant Lawyers Rarely Admitted to Practice
Statistics Canada has released a study of how often immigrants who studied outside Canada for “a regulated occupation” wind up working in that occupation. Of the various regulated professions, law admitted the least number of foreign-trained immigrants. According to the full report of the study, which used 2006 data,
Immigrants who studied law outside Canada [...]
The Checklist Manifesto and the Smarter Lawyer
The Checklist Manifesto by Dr Atul Gawande
published by Metropolitan Books, December 2009
price: $29.50
ISBN: 978-0-8050-9174-8
“Gawande shows how using checklists can significantly improve workflows and outcomes at work. The book has real lessons for lawyers and lawfirms”
In The Checklist Manifesto, Dr. Atul Gawande examines how the use of checklists can significantly improve workflows and [...]
Posted in Book Review, Knowledge Management, Law Practice, Legal Services | 3 Comments »>
Ted video: Four ways to fix a broken legal system
The annual Ted conference always has thought provoking presentations. One of the presentations this year was entitled “Four ways to fix a broken legal system“. Its worth taking the 19 minutes to watch.
The basic proposition of the presenter, Philip K. Howard, is that the legal system has become so complex that it instills fear to act. [...]
Equine Law
Here’s a niche for the eager young lawyer: equine law (or might we say “equiny” — emphasis on the ‘whinny’ ). Makes sense, of course. There’s “a law” of pretty much anything of value in our culture. Horses, though their general use preceded the death of the buggy whip by a bit, are still with [...]
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The Speech That Justice Charron Didn’t Give
There’s a fascinating piece on Monday’s Law Times about a speech that Supreme Court Justice Charron had planned to give to the Women Lawyers’ Symposium in Ottawa. Although Justice Charron’s address was never delivered, the text of her speech, penned by a former clerk, was nonetheless circulated with the rest of the material for the [...]
Posted in Canada, Law Practice, News Sources | 1 Comment »>
Handy chart summarizing changes to Ontario’s Rules of Civil Procedure
[A post for Ontario lawyers]
As of January 1, 2010, big changes to three parts of Ontario’s Rules of Civil Procedure came into effect. These changes are intended to streamline the litigation process and increase access to justice. Many of the changes to the rules are a result of the Civil Rules Committees (CRC) consideration of [...]
Craig Brown on the Apology Act
I’ve covered the Apology Act on Slaw before, and Dan Pinnington has touched on the implication for insurers.
One of my professors at UWO, Dr. Craig Brown, has taken it a step further, and suggests it may even assist insurers. Dr. Brown is the author of Insurance Law in Canada, probably the foremost work in this [...]
The Business of Law: Hot Topics and Emerging Trends
On February 9, 2010, David Cruickshank spoke at UWO Law on “The Business of Law: Hot Topics and Emerging Trends in the Legal Profession.” Cruickshank is a partner at Kerma Partners in New York City, and provides professional advice to law firms and other services.
My notes from his talk follow.
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Posted in Billing and Costs, Law Firm Finances, Law Firm Management, Law Practice | 2 Comments »>
Archiving Data
Most of us today are blithely heading for our own personal data disasters. We generate and store vast volumes of information, but few of us really look after it.
So says the New Scientist. And then there’s the matter of professional data. Ever since solicitors invented deed boxes and tying docs up in pink ribbon — [...]
Class actions against law firms on the horizon
Three cases that are making their way through the Ontario court system have a few things in common: they’re all recent, all under the Class Proceedings Act, they’re all significant claims and they all name prominent Toronto law firms as defendants.
Read more… [...]
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How Do Lawyers Get Their Information?
There’s an interesting little post on Tim Bray’s blog, Ongoing, entitled “The Listening Engine.” Bray, one of the bloggers I’ve been following for years now, is the Canadian software developer and entrepreneur who co-founded Open Text Corporation and who is now the Director of Web Technologies at Sun Microsystems. He’s thoughtful, sensible.
In The Listening Engine [...]
Feeling a Bit Paranoid???
♫ Everytime I turn around
Something don’t feel right
Just might be paranoid..♫
Lyrics and music by: Nicholas Jerry Jonas, Joseph Adam Jonas, Paul Kevin Jonas II, Cathy Dennis, John Fields, recorded by The Jonas Brothers.
I guess it was just a matter of time. IT World posted an article today by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (sjvn@vna1.com) entitled: [...]
Mid-winter blues? C’mon… go country!
We’re all working so hard on legal work right now in mid-winter cold and darkness that I thought it’d be fun to write something subversive. Maybe you’re at your breaking point and need a little musical inspiration to convince you to permanently log off of Quicklaw, hand in your security pass and make a break [...]
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