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 more than 80 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. SOQUIJ | Le Blogue 2. Library Boy 3. Lawyered Podcast 4. Official Clio Blog 5. Condo Adviser

SOQUIJ | Le Blogue
Portrait de la fraude dans l’industrie aéronautique

L’industrie aéronautique est une industrie globale et très compétitive qui génère des milliards de dollars d’activité économique. Elle est dominée par quelques grands joueurs et supportée par un large écosystème de fournisseurs, de transporteurs, de fonctionnaires et de clients de toutes tailles. C’est un secteur qui passe constamment de l’abondance à la famine («boom and bust cycle»). Ce genre de cycle crée un environnement sous pression qui entraîne souvent l’utilisation de pratiques frauduleuses pour pallier des conditions économiques défavorables ou pour gagner un avantage concurrentiel. …

Library Boy
Updated Globalex Research Guides on Foreign and International Law Topics

GlobaLex, a very good electronic collection created by the Hauser Global Law School Program at the New York University School of Law, has updated a number of its research guides: Understanding European Union Legal Materials: “The EU has a population of approximately 508 million people comprising 27 European nations, and the EU gross domestic product has a value of nearly U.S. $19.5 trillion. …

Lawyered Podcast
66: Wills and Estates Law (Ziad Yehia) – July 21, 2021

On this week’s show, we’re speaking about wills and estates law with estates litigator, Ziad Yehia!Topics: digital assets via testamentary transfer; estate trustees during litigation; succession planning and the law …

Official Clio Blog
Facebook for Lawyers: 7 Ways Your Firm Can Use Facebook

With over 2.8 billion monthly active users, Facebook is a powerful tool that lawyers should utilize to boost their law firm’s marketing efforts. However, it’s likely that you never took a “Facebook for lawyers” class in law school. Also, many professionals find the social platform extremely overwhelming. …

Condo Adviser
Are your condo fees too high? (2021 survey)

In 2019, we launched our most ambitious survey on “condo fees” in Ontario. Back by popular demand, we are relaunching a better and improved survey to update our data. For this survey to be of any use, we need many of you to take it. It only takes a couple of minutes. While anyone can complete the survey, perhaps the treasurer is the best person to take this on. It’ll help if you have your yearly budget in hand. …

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*Randomness here is created by Random.org and its list randomizing function.