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. Flex Legal Blog 2. Precedent: The New Rules of Law and Style 3. Provincial Court of BC 4. All About Information 5. The Trauma-Informed Lawyer

Flex Legal Blog
2024: A Year of Growth, Flexibility, and Gratitude at Flex Legal Network

As 2024 draws to a close, we at Flex Legal Network want to take a moment to reflect on the growth and success we’ve experienced this year—and to thank the incredible clients, freelance lawyers, and partners who made it all possible. 2024 has been a year of significant change in the legal industry, and flexible legal work is at the forefront. More law firms and in-house legal teams across Canada are turning to freelance lawyers to help manage fluctuating workloads, meet urgent deadlines, and handle specialized projects. At Flex Legal Network, we’ve been proud to help connect top-tier legal talent with clients who need it most. …

Precedent: The New Rules of Law and Style
Why Bay Street just can’t quit origination credits

Shawn Wolfson is a lawyer who appreciates the hustle. As the managing partner of Blaney McMurtry LLP, he has to make sure his nearly 130-lawyer operation has a strong and steady pipeline of clientele—and he’s under no illusion that such an objective is easy to achieve, especially with a sales force of, well, lawyers. “Law school doesn’t teach you how to develop business,” says Wolfson, speaking from his office at the firm’s headquarters at Queen and Yonge. “So when we have a lawyer who goes out and spends the time to be able to develop an incredible practice, I think we need to be able to measure the true value of that.” …

Provincial Court of BC
Practice Directions related to Continuations

Chief Judge Gillespie has issued updates effective today to the CRIM 04 and FAM 03 practice directions and has issued a new SM CL 05 practice direction. These practice directions address scheduling continuations of trials or hearings that have not finished in the time provided as soon as possible and without undue delay, and for criminal matters the goal is to schedule the continuation so the matter concludes within the timeframe set out by the Supreme Court of Canada in R. v. Jordan, 2016 SCC 27. …

All About Information
Court shields file path information from the public (and threat actors), addresses scope of s-c privilege

On November 7th, the Newfoundland and Labrador Supreme Court issued an access to information decision with some notable points. First, the Court held that a public body validly redacted file path information from a document set based on the security of a computer system exemption to the public right of access. The public body adduced good evidence that the paths could be used by threat actors to (a) randomly generate usernames amendable to brute forcing or similar attacks (b) identify domain administrators, and (c) map the network, …

The Trauma-Informed Lawyer
Psychedelic Assisted Therapy with Heather Hart

Heather Hart, host of the I’m Human Too podcast and Spokane area therapist stops in to chat with me about psychedelic assisted therapy. For more info on psychedelic assisted therapy or to find a therapist, visit maps.org and https://firesideproject.org/ And be sure to check out Heather’s podcast: https://creators.spotify.com/pod/show/imhumantoo/episodes/Introducing-Im-Human-Too-with-Heather-Hart-e2hgom5 Please also check out: www.myrnamccallum.co/jat2025 for info about my upcoming conference, where Heather will be speaking on how psychedelics are studied and used to heal trauma….

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