Monday’s Mix

Each Monday we present brief excerpts of recent posts from five of Canada’s award­-winning legal blogs chosen at random* from seventy recent Clawbie winners. In this way we hope to promote their work, with their permission, to as wide an audience as possible.

This week the randomly selected blogs are 1. Labour Pains  2. The Factum 3. National Blog  4. Rule of Law  5. Social Media for Law Firms

Labour Pains
Is Protection from Workplace Harassment Only for Employees and Not Management?

In my last post, Employers Responsible for Protecting Employees from Harassment on Twitter, I looked at a recent labour award, Toronto Transit Commission and ATU, Local 113 (Use of Social Media), Re, 2016 CarswellOnt 10550 (ON Arb), in which a labour adjudicator held that the employer had failed to protect its employees from online harassment. I admit to having difficulty with that decision. …

The Factum
Clear Skies wins Apex Award!

We’re happy to share that Clear Skies has won an Apex Award! The Apex Awards is a world-wide competition for publication excellence. Clear Skies is a different approach to talking about the law for us. This graphic novel uses an engaging story and striking imagery to tell the story of Marnie and her kids, who live with family violence. With the support of her community, and by learning her legal options, Marnie leaves an abusive relationship. Clear Skies shows the human side of the legal process. …

National Blog
We’re all mad here…. And in this together

I was encouraged to see how many people have shared and commented on my July blog post about women being pushed and pulled away from career commitment and professional success. I’m writing this to follow up on your comments with a clarification that it is important to remember we are all in this together. The issues I was discussing concerning equality in the workplace generally, and legal profession specifically, involve not just mothers, but child-free women, and men too. …

Rule of Law
Amendments to Strata Property Act Facilitating Termination of Strata Corporations in Effect

It is now easier to terminate a strata corporation in British Columbia. The Strata Property Act used to require the consent of all of the owners to terminate a strata corporation (although the court could allow termination with less than unanimous consent in some circumstances). Amendments to the Strata Property Act allowing a strata corporation to be terminate by a vote of 80 percent of eligible voters came into effect on July 28, 2016. …

Social Media for Law Firms
Reciprocity is Crucial To Lawyer Social Media Success

Reciprocity: A mutual or cooperative interchange of favours or privileges, especially the exchange of rights or privileges of trade between nations. I filmed this video on Periscope. Please forgive the quality (and my sweatpants) as I was inspired to live stream this during my morning walk. Follow me on Periscope here. You can see all my videos on YouTube and subscribe here. …
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*Randomness here is created by Random.org and its list randomizing function.