David Bilinsky
Practice Management Advisor,
Law Society of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC

email · website · moreDavid J. Bilinsky is a lawyer and Practice Management Consultant. His area of expertise is enhancing a law firm¹s profitability, developing strategic business planning and applying technology to the practice of law. Dave's mission in life is to empower lawyers to anticipate the changes, realize the opportunities, face the challenges and embrace the expanding possibilities of the application of practice management concepts to the practice of law in innovative ways that provide service excellence. He is the founder and current Chair of the Pacific Legal Technology Conference. You can visit his blog at: www.thoughtfullaw.com. · posts

David Canton
Business Lawyer and Trade-mark Agent,
Harrison Pensa LLP
London, ON

email · website · moreDavid Canton is a business lawyer and trade-mark agent with Harrison Pensa LLP in London, Ontario. David's practice focuses on technology issues and technology companies. David is co-author of Legal Land Mines in E-Commerce published by McGraw-Hill, writes a weekly column on Today’s Business Law for the London Free Press and the Canoe.ca Technology news, and blogs at canton.elegal.ca. · posts

Simon Chester
Partner, Heenan Blaikie
Toronto, ON

email · website · moreSimon Chester's involvement with legal information goes back to the Seventies when he taught legal research at Osgoode Hall Law School and served on CLIC's board – that was the Canadian Law Information Council. He has practiced law on Bay Street for almost thirty years and speaks and writes widely on legal and professional issues. · posts

Connie Crosby
Principal, Crosby Group Consulting
Toronto, ON

email · website · moreConnie is the principal of Crosby Group Consulting and is also a law librarian, writer, teacher and speaker specializing in social media, knowledge management and information management. She is author of the forthcoming book "Effective Blogging for Libraries" to be published by Neal-Schuman in March 2010. · posts

Adam Dodek
Associate Professor
Faculty of Law, Common Law Section
University of Ottawa
Ottawa, ON

email · website · moreAdam Dodek is an associate in the common law section of the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Law. He teaches and writes about public law, legal ethics, the legal profession and the Supreme Court of Canada. He is a founding member of the Canadian Association for Legal Ethics (CALE). He is writing a book about solicitor-client privilege.
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Simon Fodden
Professor Emeritus, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University
Toronto, ON

email · website · moreSimon Fodden is the founder of Slaw. He taught law at Osgoode Hall Law School for more than 30 years before he retired to focus on writing, publishing, and IT and law. · posts

Gabriel Granatstein
Lawyer, Norton Rose
Montreal, QC

email · website · moreGabriel Granatstein is a lawyer at Norton Rose who practises in all areas of employment and labour law, including the interpretation and application of collective agreements and contracts of employment, occupational health and safety and grievance arbitration. Prior to joining the firm, he served as an officer in the Canadian Forces, where his duties included assisting in grievance processing, conducting administrative and disciplinary investigations and a period of deployment as a peacekeeper in Bosnia. Mr. Granatstein writes on Quebec labour law on his blog at http://www.quebeclabourlawblog.com. He can also be followed on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/granatstein. · posts

Omar Ha-Redeye
Barrister & Solicitor
Toronto, ON

email · website · moreOmar Ha-Redeye is a recent J.D. graduate of the University of Western Ontario. He has a background in Nuclear Medicine Technology, Health Management and Public Relations. · posts

Tamir Israel
Staff Lawyer
Samuelson-Glushko Canadian Internet Policy & Public Interest Clinic
Ottawa, ON

email · website · moreTamir is staff lawyer with the Samuelson-Glushko Canadian Internet Policy & Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC) at the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law, where he conducts research and advocacy on various digital rights-related topics, with a focus on online privacy and anonymity, net neutrality, intellectual property, intermediary liability, spam, e-commerce, and consumer protection generally. He also lectures on Internet regulation matters at the University of Ottawa's Faculty of Graduate & Postdoctoral Studies. · posts

Geneviève Lay
Lawyer, Norton Rose
Montreal, QC

email · website · moreGeneviève Lay is a lawyer at Norton Rose working in the areas of employment and labour law, particularly the interpretation and application of collective agreements and contracts of employment, occupational health and safety, and grievance arbitration. During her law studies, Ms. Lay clerked for the Honourable Marc de Wever and the Honourable Marie St-Pierre of the Quebec Superior Court. She was also director of community services for the McGill Legal Information Clinic. Ms. Lay is co-editor and contributor to the Quebec Labour Law blog at http://www.quebeclabourlawblog.com/. · posts

Mark Lewis
Reference/Information Technology Librarian, Sir James Dunn Law Library, Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University
Halifax, NS

email · website · moreMark Lewis is the Reference/IT Librarian at the Sir James Dunn Law Library at Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University. Mark became a Slaw core contributor in 2005 and has a healthy appreciation for the legally absurd. · posts

Michael Lines
Faculty and Student Services Librarian
Diana M. Priestly Law Library, University of Victoria
Victoria, BC

email · website · moreMichael is a librarian, webmaster, and researcher at the University of Victoria Diana M. Priestly Law Library. He has an MLS and MA (Medieval History) from the University of Toronto, and is the father of two youngsters. · posts

Steven Matthews
Founder, Stem Legal Web Enterprises Inc.
Vancouver, BC

email · website · moreSteve Matthews is the Founder of Stem Legal, a company that helps organizations in the legal industry to gain greater web visibility. · posts

Shaunna Mireau
Library Manager, Field Law LLP
Edmonton, AB

email · website · moreDirector of Knowledge Management and Libraries at Field LLP. I am excited by the daily challenges of managing of the firm libraries, legal research and mentoring students, coordinating knowledge management projects, and close collaboration with the firm's technology team and practice groups. Thanks for reading slaw.ca · posts

Jack Newton
President and Co-founder
Themis Solutions Inc.
Vancouver, BC

email · website · moreJack Newton is co-founder and President of Clio, a leading provider of cloud-based practice management software. Jack holds an M.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Alberta, and has more than 10 years experience building start-ups and web applications. Jack writes frequently on the security, ethical, and practical aspects of cloud computing, and has spoken at CLE seminars across Canada and the U.S. about how practice management systems can be used to help a lawyer practice efficiently, ethically and competently. Jack can be reached at jack@goclio.com. · posts

John O'Sullivan
Partner
WeirFoulds LLP
Toronto, ON

email · website · moreJohn O'Sullivan is a senior Bay St civil litigator with substantial trial experience. He is a passionate promoter of rules of civil procedure that allow litigants to get their matters in front of a judge for determination. He is a mandatory mediation sceptic. He questions the increasingly popular view that a lawyer has failed the client if settlement is not achieved, and they end up at the courtroom door. · posts

John Papadopoulos
Chief Law Librarian
Bora Laskin Law Library, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
Toronto, ON

email · moreJohn Papadopoulos, is the Chief Law Librarian at the Bora Laskin Law Library, University of Toronto Faculty of Law. He teaches legal research methods at both the UofT Faculty of Law and Faculty of Information. He is a co-author of The Practical Guide to Canadian Legal Research 3rd ed (Carswell, 2010). · posts

Dan Pinnington
Director, practicePRO
Toronto, ON

email · website · moreAs the Director, practicePRO at the Lawyers’ Professional Indemnity Company (LAWPRO), Dan helps lawyers avoid malpractice claims. He is passionate about legal technology and wrote the just published Busy Lawyer’s Guide to Success: Essential Tips to Power Your Practice. · posts

Gary P. Rodrigues
Ontario Lawyer and Publishing Consultant
Toronto, ON

email · moreGary P. Rodrigues is a publishing industry consultant, advising both private sector and government, and a columnist for slaw.ca, Canada's online legal magazine. He has had extensive experience at the senior executive level at LexisNexis Canada, a division of Reed Elsevier, and at Carswell, a Thomson Reuters Company. Reid Elsevier and Thomson Reuters are the two global leaders in providing legal, tax and financial information to legal and business professionals. Gary has also played a leading role in the publishing industry at large, first as President of the Canadian Publishers Council, the trade for multi-national publishers in Canada, and then as the Co-Chair of The Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency (Access Copyright), the collective mandated to licence the intellectual property rights of creators and publishers. Gary's professional formation was as a lawyer. He is a graduate in History and Law of the University of Western Ontario and a member of the Ontario Bar. His interest in human rights led to his involvement in monitoring elections in war-torn countries such as Namibia and Bosnia as part of the international efforts to establish democratic governments in these countries. · posts

Yosie Saint-Cyr
Managing Editor, Human Resources and Compliance Collection
from First Reference
Montréal, QC

email · moreYosie Saint-Cyr, LL.B., 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. She is the managing editor of the Human Resources Professional Association (HRPA) of Ontario’s monthly member e-newsletter ELAW. Yosie is one of Canada’s best-known and most-respected HR authors, with an extensive background in employment and labour law across the country. · website · posts

Michel-Adrien Sheppard
Reference Librarian / Bibliothécaire de référence
Supreme Court of Canada / Cour suprême du Canada
Ottawa, ON

email · website · moreFormer news researcher/journalist and web producer, reference librarian in the federal capital since Sept. '05, graduate of McGill University · posts

Ted Tjaden
Director of Library and Knowledge Management, McMillan LLP
Toronto, ON

email · website · moreTed Tjaden has been a lawyer for over 20 years during which time he also obtained his Master of Information and Master of Laws degree from the University of Toronto. He is currently immersed in various Knowledge Management projects. · posts

Melanie Bueckert
Legal Research Counsel
Manitoba Court of Appeal
Winnipeg, MB
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Laura A. Calloway
Director of Service Programs and Practice Management Assistance Program
Alabama State Bar
Montgomery, AL
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David Cheifetz
Lawyer
Smockum Zarnett Percival LLP
Toronto, ON
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John Davis
Professor
Osgoode Hall Law School, York University
Toronto, ON
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Annette Demers
Reference Librarian
Paul Martin Law Library
University of Windsor
Windsor, ON
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Peg Duncan
Independent Consultant
IT and eDiscovery
Ottawa, ON
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Elizabeth Ellis
Partner, Torys
Toronto, ON
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John Gregory
General Counsel, Policy Division
Ministry of the Attorney General (Ontario)
Toronto, ON
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Lesley Harris
Barrister & Solicitor (Ontario Bar 1985)
Washington, DC
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Dominic Jaar
President, Ledjit Consulting
CEO, Canadian Centre for Court Technology
Montréal, QC
email · website

Jean-Marc Leclerc
Partner
Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
Toronto, ON
email · website

Jeanette Lee
Lawyer & Registered Trade-mark Agent
Stohn Hay Cafazzo Dembroski Richmond LLP
Toronto, ON
email · website

Alex Manevich
Associate, Heenan Blaikie
Toronto, ON
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Frédéric Pelletier
Legal Counsel, LexUM
Montreal, QC
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Daniel Poulin
Director, LexUM
Montreal, QC
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Edward Prutschi
Partner, Adler Bytensky Prutschi
Toronto, ON
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Angela Swan
Counsel, Aird & Berlis LLP
Toronto, ON
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Pitblado LLP
Winnipeg, MB

Brian Bowman
Adam Herstein
Carol Lynn Schafer
Jolin Spencer
Karen Sawatzky

Clark Wilson LLP
Vancouver, BC

Warren G. Brazier
Nicole M. Byres
Brent C. Clark
John C. Fiddick
Michal Jaworski
Sarah W. Jones
Neil Melliship
D. Lawrence Munn
Bernard Pinsky
Jeffrey F. Vicq

Heenan Blaikie LLP

Christina Buchli
Dean Chenoy
Paul Chodirker
Ken Dhaliwal
Arthur Evrensel
Hilary Goldstein
Jim Russell
Eva Schmieg
Michael Spanier
David Steinberg
Sarah Tarry
Stephen Zolf

Borden Ladner Gervais

Linda Bertoldi
Tim Buckley
Adam Chamberlain
Danny Dochylo
Michael Fitzgibbon
Barry Glaspell
Sal Mirandola
Morton Mitchnick
David Surat
Kate Zavitz

Provincial Ombudsmen

André Marin, ON
Raymonde Saint-Germain, QC
Kim Carter, BC
Barry Fleming, NL
Kevin Fenwick, SK

Judges of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice

B. Thomas Granger
James R.H. Turnbull
Colin L. Campbell
Michelle Fuerst
Paul M. Perell

Bereskin & Parr

John H. Simpson
Catherine Lovrics
Jill Jarvis-Tonus
Kevin Shipley
Paul Horbal
Noel Courage
Louisa Pontrelli