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Archive for the Category "Administration of Slaw" « Older Entries Yosie Saint-Cyr by Administrator on March 10th, 2010 We’re pleased indeed to announce that Yosie Saint-Cyr has joined Slaw as a regular contributor. Yosie was called to the Quebec bar in 1988, where she practised employment and labour law until 1999. For over 10 years Yosie has been the Managing Editor of the Human Resources and Compliance Collection from First Reference and [...] Posted in Administration of Slaw \| 3 Comments »> Save Slaw as PDF by Administrator on February 4th, 2010 From the people who brought you Hovercards before Twitter — indeed, before they even had a name — now comes “Save as PDF.” We’ve added a small link below each post in the “Share:” section that invites you to download that post as a PDF file. Now you can collect all of your favourites in [...] Posted in Administration of Slaw \| No Comments »> Slaw Wins Clawbie by Simon Fodden on December 31st, 2009 With less than half a day to go till January 1, I’ve learned that Slaw has won the 2009 Clawbie for best law blog. This is indeed a fitting end to the year for all of us who contribute to Slaw — and considerable motivation to keep up the good work in the new year. [...] Posted in Administration of Slaw, Awards \| 2 Comments »> Slaw Wins Blawggie – Again by Simon Fodden on December 22nd, 2009 I’m more than proud to be able to say that Dennis Kennedy, that powerhouse of American law blogging, has awarded the 2009 Blawggie for Best Overall Law-Related Blog to Slaw. This is the second year in a row we’ve been favoured with the award — and we’re chuffed, to say the least. Kennedy sets out the [...] Posted in Administration of Slaw, Awards, Blogs \| 8 Comments »> A Milestone by Simon Chester on November 27th, 2009 Slaw reaches 5000 posts. For a law blog that’s awesome, and for a Canadian legal information blog, unthinkable. And we have been told just this week that we’ve been recognized by the Law Foundation of Ontario and will be receiving a grant which will permit us to take Slaw to even greater heights. [...] Posted in Administration of Slaw, Awards, Blogs, People, Uncategorized \| 4 Comments »> Judges Guest Blogging by Simon Fodden on November 22nd, 2009 This month our guest blogging institution isn’t a firm, but a group of judges from the Ontario Superior Court of Justice. As always, when we have an institutional guest blogger, we’ll identify the guest posts with a banner. You’ll see the one below starting tomorrow, Monday: We hope you’ll join in and give our guest the [...] Posted in Administration of Slaw, Firm Guest Blogger \| No Comments »> Slaw Gets a Mention in Lexpert by Simon Fodden on November 18th, 2009 I’m pleased to say that Slaw got a great mention in a recent piece in Lexpert Magazine’s Globe and Mail web articles, “Law Firms Test Potential for Social Media,” by Marzena Czarnecka. Yours truly made a couple of cautious comments that got reported; and blogger and Slawyer Jeremy Grushcow got to impart a few words [...] Posted in Administration of Slaw, Blogs \| 2 Comments »> Firm Guest Blogger: Ombudsmen by Simon Fodden on October 11th, 2009 As our guest this month we have not a firm but the Ombudsmen from the provinces of Ontario, Quebec, British Columbia, Newfoundland and Labrador, and Saskatchewan. Also, we are inviting our guests to join us a week earlier than usual this month because the Canadian Council of Parliamentary Ombudsman chose this week to commemorate the [...] Posted in Administration of Slaw, Firm Guest Blogger \| 3 Comments »> Nicole Garton-Jones by Administrator on October 11th, 2009 We are very pleased indeed to announce that Nicole Garton-Jones is joining Slaw as a regular contributor. Nicole is the principal of Heritage Law, a Vancouver law firm, and practices in the areas of wills and estates, family law and mediation. She is a graduate of U.B.C., Leadership Vancouver and the Womens’ Campaign School and [...] Posted in Administration of Slaw \| No Comments »> Slaw Implements Google Translator by Administrator on October 1st, 2009 As an experiment, Slaw has installed a new Google feature that can automatically translate a website into the language used by the viewer’s browser. Thus, when we have a reader who comes to us with a browser set to read French or German or Arabic — or any of 50 languages — the reader will [...] Posted in Administration of Slaw, Translation \| 1 Comment »> David Whelan by Administrator on September 24th, 2009 If you look to your right — while this post is at the top of Slaw’s main page — you’ll see that we have a new columnist. David Whelan is getting his feet wet by subbing for Wendy Reynolds, our regular Extreme Lib columnist, who is busy this month wrestling a new job to the [...] Posted in Administration of Slaw \| 3 Comments »> Slaw Is Now Moderating Some Comments by Administrator on September 14th, 2009 We have been the object of a number of phony comments that passed the reCaptcha test and the Akismet comment spam filter. Although we delete these annoyances as soon as we can, they go out on the comment RSS feed before we can stop them, unfortunately. To prevent this we are now forcing some comments [...] Posted in Administration of Slaw \| No Comments »> Michael Fitzgibbon Joins Slaw by Simon Fodden on September 2nd, 2009 I’m pleased indeed to tell you that Michael Fitzgibbon has joined Slaw as a regular contributor. You will doubtless know him because of his own blog, Thoughts from a Management Lawyer and because of his recent post on Slaw as part of the firm guest blogging by Borden Ladner Gervais, where Michael is a partner [...] Posted in Administration of Slaw \| 2 Comments »> Slaw and Anonymous Commenting by Simon Fodden on August 31st, 2009 It seems sensible to say a few words now about Angela Swan’s concern, expressed in a recent post, about “anonymous blogging” on Slaw. Let me start by giving you some information, most of which is not news. Only members may post entries on Slaw; members are, of course, known, identified, and much valued, I might [...] Posted in Administration of Slaw \| 2 Comments »> Firm Guest Blogger: Borden Ladner Gervais by Simon Fodden on August 23rd, 2009 Our firm guest blogger this month is Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, who have kindly provided us with this firm profile: At Borden Ladner Gervais LLP (BLG), It Begins With Service. BLG is a leading, full-service, integrated national law firm focusing on business law, litigation and intellectual property solutions for our clients. With more than 750 lawyers, [...] Posted in Administration of Slaw, Firm Guest Blogger \| No Comments »> « Older Entries		Special Projects [ TOROG memos – mapping lawyers] Recent Comments Slaw Linkblog Follow Slaw [ on a mobile – via rss – via email – on twitter ] SlawNET Member Login This week's column is on: Rise Up! Your Dreams Lead the Way by Allison WolfAllison Wolf, President of Shift Works Strategic, is a certified executive coach with a focus on helping legal professionals reach their fullest potential. Allison has supported her clients in achieving success in a number of areas including: developing powerful rainmaking skills, launching profitable new practice areas and revitalising burned-out practices. Allison has helped clients with successful transitions to new law firms, new practice areas and new careers. [click on the author's name to go to email and web page links] March 8, 2010 Watching Canada win gold in men’s hockey and landing our nation the Olympic record for most gold medals won by any country in winter sports was an unforgettable experience. The national celebration and the pride and the joy we are all experiencing at being Canadian is something to savor. “Own the Podium” – never liked [...] READ: this column other columns on Rise Up! past columns on all topics TOROG memos and precedents Documents from the Toronto Opinions Group on third-party opinions. Mapping Canadian Lawyers A cooperative project to locate Canadian lawyers on a Google map. Meghan on Morrison Foerster Moves Library to Marketing Department John G on Lawyers and Their Clients’ Values Gary P. Rodrigues on Computerized legal research costs Steven Matthews on Yosie Saint-Cyr Connie Crosby on May Law Blogs Be Ghostwritten? Connie Crosby on Yosie Saint-Cyr Jameela on Lawyers and Their Clients’ Values Victoria on May Law Blogs Be Ghostwritten? Ted Tjaden on Computerized legal research costs Dan Michaluk on Yosie Saint-Cyr Gary P. Rodrigues on Computerized legal research costs Simon Fodden on North Face vs. South Butt Verna Milner on Computerized legal research costs Angela Swan on Computerized legal research costs Peter Wu on Big Changes in Legal Outsourcing Who gets your passwords when you die? \| The Gazette (Montreal) Montrealer Adele McAlear has been studying the issue of digital legacy for several years. She says some websites have cropped up to offer services as digital executors, but few people seem to take advantage of them. Several lawyers have also added digital assets to the process of estate planning. Macmillan Stacking Sandbags Against e-Book Flood \| GigaOM Mathew Ingram explains the new agency book pricing model being adopted my publisher Macmillan and its background. Macmillan CEO John Sargent on the agency model, availability and price \| Macmillan blog Starting at the end of March, we will move from the “retail model” of selling e-books (publishers sell to retailers, who then sell to readers at a price that the retailer determines) to the “agency model” (publishers set the price, and retailers take a commission on the sale to readers). Shuuuuttt Uppp! Why Your Company Needs 'Quiet Time' \| The View from Harvard Business \| BNET Many companies are now going back to the days of installing “quiet time,” periods when workers are sequestered from interruptions to focus on the work at hand. NYRblog - Tony Judt on Identity "We are entering, I suspect, upon a time of troubles. It is not just the terrorists, the bankers, and the climate that are going to wreak havoc with our sense of security and stability. Globalization itself—the “flat” earth of so many irenic fantasies—will be a source of fear and uncertainty to billions of people who will turn to their leaders for protection. “Identities” will grow mean and tight, as the indigent and the uprooted beat upon the ever-rising walls of gated communities from Delhi to Dallas." Good and Boring \| Op-Ed Columnist \| NYTimes.com Iceland's meltdown made headlines; the remarkable stability of Canada's banks, not so much.Yet as the world’s attention shifts from financial rescue to financial reform, the quiet success stories deserve at least as much attention as the spectacular failures. We need to learn from those countries that evidently did it right. And leading that list is our neighbor to the north. Right now, Canada is a very important role model. Fraser Speirs - Blog - Future Shock What you're seeing in the industry's reaction to the iPad is nothing less than future shock. For years we've all held to the belief that computing had to be made simpler for the 'average person'. I find it difficult to come to any conclusion other than that we have totally failed in this effort. The iPad and publishers: A survey of early reaction - O'Reilly Radar the device is clearly built for media consumption. Movies, music, books, news -- the bread and butter content that keeps iTunes humming. That's good for Apple, obviously, but it also creates an interesting opportunity for publishers. They've got a new distribution mechanism and a new canvas. We don't need no stinking authority \| The Economist "[I]n the history of the discussion over whether or not the drone strikes in Pakistan are a good idea, I don't think I have ever heard anyone ask where the CIA or the president get the authority for them. Now, reports Spencer Ackerman, the ACLU is asking . . ." Time to stand up for Parliament (Editorial \| The Globe and Mail) It is time the rules governing prorogation changed. Canada's Parliament has shown itself vulnerable to an excessive concentration of power, and hence is hampered in fulfilling its role as the “ultimate sovereign body.” The prorogation of 2008 has now been followed by another, this time simply for partisan tactical convenience. The Prime Minister is misusing the power to shut down Parliament, and in the process destabilizing Canada's democracy. For that reason, prorogation should be made subject to legislative controls. Add Slaw Linkblog to your del.icio.us network Subscribe to Slawlinkblog Follow our posts on your mobile Subscribe via RSS: You can subscribe to any or all of the following: the feed for all posts the feed for all comments a feed for a particular category and a feed for posts by a particular author. You can also subscribe to the feed for the comments to any particular post: you will find instructions above the comment entry form after all entries. Subscribe via email: To receive posts: To receive comments: Delivered by FeedBurner Follow Slaw posts on Twitter Here's the title of the most recent post from each of the blogs of Slaw's regular contributors. Library Boy Is the Canadian Library Association Still Viable? Chaire en droit de la sécurité et des affaires électroniques Les vidéos sont en ligne eLegal Canton Amazon 1-click patent upheld Canadian Privacy Law Blog Facebook plans to allow users to "share" location Vancouver Law Librarian Blog BC Law Watch Launches! Thoughtful Legal Management Recognition for Achievements by Lawyers and Law Firms Law Firm Web Strategy Canadian Law Blogs List Now Over 200! The Cross-Border Biotech Blog Monday Biotech Deal Review: March 8, 2010 Law is Cool OPP Officer Murdered, Tragic Irony… Preuve Électronique et Gestion de l’information – Le Pont entre le Droit et les TI - Conseils Ledjit Le procès sans papier – Objection… à toute la preuve présentée devant les tribunaux québécois! 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