Legal Marketing and Business Development executives understand the importance of staying on top of clients, industry trends, and competition. While leveraging the right software can be incredibly valuable, it feels like every week, a sales rep promises that their platform will deliver game-changing insights, and we are missing out by not signing up immediately.

With a glut of tools available to us, how do you choose which ones are right for your firm? Decision fatigue is a reality, so cutting out the noise is crucial when assessing your firm’s needs.

Types of Tools

General Information Tools: Google Alerts is . . . [more]

Once espoused by a US Supreme Court Justice in the historical Jacobellis case, the iconic “I know it when I see it” principle doesn’t only apply to censorship. I would argue that we can apply it to well-constructed legal documentation as well.

Have you ever looked at a document, any document, and felt overwhelmed by the amount of information coming at you? For example, think about the last time you emptied your mailbox of fliers. Did you look at one of those fliers and think, “Argh! There are so many random pictures of produce, numbers and words and I don’t . . . [more]

One Sunday each month we bring you a summary from Supreme Advocacy LLP of recent decisions at the Supreme Court of Canada. Supreme Advocacy LLP offers a weekly electronic newsletter, Supreme Advocacy Letter, to which you may subscribe. It’s a summary of all Appeals, Oral Judgments and Leaves to Appeal granted from March 6 – May 22, 2025 inclusive.

Appeals

Bankruptcy & Insolvency: Student Loans
Piekut v. Canada (National Revenue), 2023 BCCA 181; 2025 SCC 13 (40782)

Section 178(2) of the BIA provides that an order of discharge releases a bankrupt from all claims provable in bankruptcy, . . . [more]

Every week we present the summary of a decision handed down by a Québec court provided to us by SOQUIJ and considered to be of interest to our readers throughout Canada. SOQUIJ is attached to the Québec Department of Justice and collects, analyzes, enriches, and disseminates legal information in Québec.

PÉNAL (DROIT) : L’accusé, qui a filmé ou photographié 14 femmes à leur insu, parfois alors qu’elles étaient nues ou qu’elles avaient des relations sexuelles avec lui, et qui a réalisé des montages à caractère sexuel de certaines de ses victimes ainsi que des vidéos de lui-même dans lesquelles il . . . [more]