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Slaw Contributors Core Contributors \| Occasional Contributors \| Columnists \| Firm Guest Bloggers *Core Contributors:* David Bilinsky Practice Management Advisor, Law Society of British Columbia Vancouver, BC email website David Canton Business Lawyer and Trade-mark Agent, Harrison Pensa LLP London, ON email website Simon Chester Partner, Heenan Blaikie Toronto, ON email website Connie Crosby Principal, Crosby Group Consulting Toronto, ON email website Simon Fodden Professor Emeritus, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University Toronto, ON email website David T. S. Fraser Associate, McInnes Cooper Halifax, NS email website Nicole Garton-Jones Lawyer, Heritage Law Vancouver, BC email website Jeremy Grushcow Foreign Legal Consultant (New York, Illinois) Ogilvy Renault LLP Toronto, ON email website Omar Ha-Redeye Law Student University of Western Ontario London, ON email website Patricia Hughes Executive Director Law Commission of Ontario Commission de Droit de l’Ontario Toronto, ON email website Mark Lewis Reference/Information Technology Librarian, Sir James Dunn Law Library, Dalhousie University Halifax, NS email Michael Lines MA, MLS Faculty and Student Services Librarian Diana M. Priestly Law Library, University of Victoria Victoria, BC email website Steven Matthews Founder, Stem Legal Web Enterprises Inc. Vancouver, BC email website Dan Michaluk Partner, Hicks Morley Toronto, ON email website Shaunna Mireau Library Manager, Field Law LLP Edmonton, AB email website Dan Pinnington Director, practicePRO Toronto, ON email website Gary P. Rodrigues Ontario Lawyer and Publishing Consultant Toronto, ON email Michel-Adrien Sheppard Reference Librarian / Bibliothécaire de référence Supreme Court of Canada / Cour suprême du Canada Ottawa, ON email website Ted Tjaden Director of Library and Knowledge Management, McMillan LLP Toronto, ON email website Evan VanDyk Lawyer, Heenan Blaikie Toronto, ON email website *Occasional Contributors:* Catherine Best Research Lawyer Boughton Law Corp. Vancouver, B.C. website Melanie Bueckert Legal Research Counsel Manitoba Court of Appeal Winnipeg, MB email Alex Cameron Associate, Fasken Martineau Toronto, ON email website Neil Campbell Law Librarian, University of Victoria Victoria, BC email website Agnese Caruso Research Specialist Tax Research Centre, PwC Management Services LP Toronto, ON email Patrick Cormier President, Government 2.0 Think Tank Inc. Ottawa, ON email website John Davis Professor Osgoode Hall Law School, York University Toronto, ON email website Annette Demers Reference Librarian Paul Martin Law Library University of Windsor Windsor, ON email website Elizabeth Ellis Partner, Torys Toronto, ON email website John Gregory General Counsel, Policy Division Ministry of the Attorney General (Ontario) Toronto, ON email website Lesley Harris Barrister & Solicitor (Ontario Bar 1985) Washington, DC website website Dominic Jaar President, Ledjit Consulting CEO, Canadian Centre for Court Technology Montréal, QC email website Jeanette Lee Lawyer & Registered Trade-mark Agent Stohn Hay Cafazzo Dembroski Richmond LLP Toronto, ON email website Pierre-Paul Lemyre Products and Business Development, LexUM Montreal, QC email website Alex Manevich Associate, Heenan Blaikie Toronto, ON email website Ivan Mokanov Deputy Director, LexUM Montreal, QC email website Marc-André Morissette Chief Analyst, LexUM Montreal, QC email website Frédéric Pelletier Legal Counsel, LexUM Montreal, QC email website Daniel Poulin Director, LexUM Montreal, QC email website Edward Prutschi Partner, Adler Bytensky Prutschi Toronto, ON email website Carol Lynn Schafer Associate, Pitblado LLP Winnipeg, MN email website Angela Swan Counsel, Aird & Berlis LLP Toronto, ON email website Andrew Terrett National Director of Knowledge Management Borden Ladner Gervais Toronto, ON email website Arthur Wilson Lawyer, LLM Student, University of Toronto Toronto, ON email *Columnists:* Joel Alleyne President, Alleyne Inc. Toronto, ON email website Gavin Birer Founder, Legalwise Outsourcing Inc. email website John C. Bouck Supreme Court of British Columbia (retired) Victoria, BC email website Stéphane Bourbonnière Business Development Manager/E-discovery Consultant Gestion Megaoctet Montreal, QC Alex Cameron Associate, Fasken Martineau Toronto, ON email website Conor R. Crowley Managing Director DOAR Litigation Consulting New York, New York, U.S.A. email Paul Emond Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School President, Emond Montgomery Publications Toronto, ON email website Martin Felsky Chief Executive Officer, Commonwealth Legal Toronto, ON email website Jordan Furlong Partner, Edge International Senior Consultant, Stem Legal Ottawa, ON email website Rob Gerbrandt Senior Director, Solutions Consulting PSS Systems Mountain View, California, USA email website Ronald J. Hedges Counsel, Nixon Peabody New York, NY email website Dominic Jaar CEO/Chef de la direction Canadian Centre for Court Technology/Centre Canadien de Technologie Judiciaire Montréal, QC email website Brenda Johnson Associate, Bennett Jones LLP Calgary, AB email website Jean-François Legault Senior Manager – Analystic & Forensic Technology Deloitte & Touche LLP Montreal, QC email website Steven Matthews Founder, Stem Legal Web Enterprises Vancouver, BC email website Jeffery Miller President, Irwin Law Inc. Toronto, ON email website Kim Nayyer Researcher / Writer Toronto, ON email Robert D. Owen Partner, Fullbright & Jaworski LLP New York, NY, USA email website William J. Platt Managing Partner, Platinum Legal Group Toronto, ON email website Wendy Reynolds Head Librarian Ontario Workplace Tribunals Library Toronto, ON email Glenn A. Smith Senior Partner, Lenczner Slaght Toronto, ON email website David Whelan Manager, Legal Information Law Society of Upper Canada Toronto, ON email website John Willinsky Professor, School of Education, Stanford University Principal Investigator, Public Knowledge Project Stanford, California, U.S.A. email website Allison Wolf Founder, Shift Works Strategic Inc. Vancouver, BC email website *Firm Guest Bloggers:* Pitblado LLP \| Clark Wilson LLP \| Heenan Blaikie LLP \| Borden Ladner Gervais \| Provincial Ombudsmen \| Judges of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice Pitblado LLP Winnipeg, MB Brian Bowman, Partner email website Adam Herstein, Partner email website Carol Lynn Schafer, Associate email website Jolin Spencer, Associate email website Karen Sawatzky, Library Manager email website Clark Wilson LLP Vancouver, BC Warren G. Brazier, Chair Energy & Natural Resources Group email website Nicole M. Byres, Chair Labour and Employment Practice Group email website Brent C. Clark, Associate email website John C. Fiddick, Partner email website Michal Jaworski, Associate email website Sarah W. Jones, Associate email website Neil Melliship, Chair Technology and Intellectual Property Group email website D. Lawrence Munn, Chair Privacy Law Group email website Bernard Pinsky, Chair Corporate Finance/Securities Group, Chair, United States Law Group email website Jeffrey F. Vicq, Associate email website Heenan Blaikie LLP Christina Buchli, Partner email website Dean Chenoy, Partner email website Paul Chodirker, Associate email website Ken Dhaliwal, Partner email website Arthur Evrensel, Partner email website Hilary Goldstein, Associate email website Jim Russell, Partner email website Eva Schmieg, Partner email website Michael Spanier, Associate email website David Steinberg, Partner email website Sarah Tarry, Associate email website Stephen Zolf, Partner email website Borden Ladner Gervais Linda Bertoldi Partner email website Tim Buckley Partner email website Adam Chamberlain Partner email website Danny Dochylo Partner email website Michael Fitzgibbon, Partner email website Barry Glaspell Partner email website Sal Mirandola Partner email website Morton Mitchnick Partner email website David Surat Counsel email website Kate Zavitz Associate email website Provincial Ombudsmen André Marin, Ontario Ombudsman email website Raymonde Saint-Germain, Quebec Ombudsman / Le Protecteur du citoyen email website Kim Carter, British Columbia Ombudsman email website Barry Fleming, Newfoundland & Labrador Citizens’ Representative email website Kevin Fenwick, Saskatchewan Ombudsman email website Judges of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice Justice B. Thomas Granger email website Justice James R.H. Turnbull email website Justice Colin L. Campbell email website Justice Michelle Fuerst email website Justice Paul M. Perell email website		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: Law21 The iFuture by Jordan FurlongJordan is a partner with Edge International, providing consulting services to law firms on strategic planning and tactical matters. He's also a Senior Consultant with Stem Legal and principal of its Media Strategy consulting service. Finally, he's an award-winning blogger who chronicles the extraordinary changes underway in the practice of law at Law21: Dispatches from a Legal Profession on the Brink. Formerly editor-in-chief of the CBA's National magazine and a graduate of Queen's Law School, he lives in Ottawa with his wife and two children. [click on the author's name to go to email and web page links] February 3, 2010 For the record, I don’t intend to buy one. At least, not for a few more years and not until the inevitable upgrades, improvements, fixes, and content distribution changes have run their course. But well before the iPad 3.o arrives, the original version will have had a serious impact on the computer industry, on the [...] READ: this column other columns on Law21 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. 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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. ongoing · On the Blankness of Google "Today, without planning to, I visited the Google home page, then also Yahoo and Bing. They don’t look like each other at all. I think, first of all, that Yahoo is the past, Google the present, Bing the future. And second, that it doesn’t matter much." Duthie Books of Vancouver closing after 53 years (Duthie Press Release) (Jan. 19/10) For 53 years Duthies has provided a good book service to the city, championed BC and Canadian books, encouraged the public to read local writers, and helped to create a knowledgeable reading public...Everybody knows that Independent bookstores have been under pressure from the 'big box' operations for many years now and it is clear that it is not going to get any better; the likes of Chapters, and Amazon are ruthless in their drive for market share and we cannot compete on price anymore. DigitalKoans » Canadian Research Knowledge Network Completes License Agreements Worth $140 Million The Canadian Research Knowledge Network, which has 73 academic institutions as members, has completed three-year license agreements worth $140 million with 14 scholarly publishers. It is estimated that over $40 million was saved compared to institutional licenses for comparable content. A new approach to China (Official Google Blog) (Jan. 12/10) Like many other well-known organizations, we face cyber attacks of varying degrees on a regular basis. In mid-December, we detected a highly sophisticated and targeted attack on our corporate infrastructure originating from China that resulted in the theft of intellectual property from Google. However, it soon became clear that what at first appeared to be solely a security incident--albeit a significant one--was something quite different. Google’s Threat Ricocheted Around World, but Skipped Over China - NYTimes.com (Jan. 13/10) Google’s declaration that it would stop cooperating with Chinese Internet censorship and consider shutting down its operations in China ricocheted around the world on Wednesday. But in China itself, the news was heavily censored. 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. 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