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. Lash Condo Law 3. Timely Disclosure 4. Legal Post Blog 5. John Willinsky
Flex Legal Blog
Reputation Management for Lawyers: Tips to Safeguard Your Professional Image
In law, reputation is everything. It takes years to build, but it can be compromised in a single moment. A lawyer’s reputation is shaped not just by the quality of their legal work, but also by their judgment, professionalism, and reliability both inside and outside the office. In today’s fast-paced legal environment, reputational risks are everywhere. Beyond disciplinary issues, lawyers face new challenges brought by technology, changing client expectations, and demanding workloads. Proactively managing reputation is not optional; it is an essential part of running a sustainable practice. …
Lash Condo Law
Confessions of a Condo Lawyer – Part Two: Behind the Scenes
When I posted Part One of this series, I didn’t expect the response it received. Many readers reached out to share their own “condo nightmares” – the Friday afternoon crises, the quirky AGM stories, and the all-too-familiar headaches that keep condo directors, managers, and yes, lawyers, awake at night. But condo law isn’t only about the dramatic or the urgent. A great deal of what shapes the life of a condo community happens quietly, in the background. These behind-the-scenes moments rarely make headlines or AGM minutes, but they are often the reason issues don’t spiral out of control. …
Timely Disclosure
Capital Markets and Mergers & Acquisitions Bulletin
It is common for M&A buyers, and particularly private equity buyers, to price a deal based on a multiple of Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization (EBITDA)—among other things. How, then, should damages be calculated if the seller is found to have breached representations that informed the buyer’s financial assessments? …
Legal Post Blog
Howard Levitt: Employers who tell an employee to ‘retire’ should be prepared to pay
Since retirement is the natural order of things and thousands of people retire every week, you would think the process would have been all worked out by now. Unfortunately, this is not the case. We frequently encounter situations where both employers and employees are at odds about when the employee will retire. These situations often lead to litigation, which would be preventable if everybody was aware of a few simple facts. …
John Willinsky
A Time for Change and Correction
Welcome to my 100th and final column for Slaw. It all started innocently enough at the outset of 2008 when the late Simon Fodden, innovative founder of this venue, invited me to contribute a column on scholarly publishing issues. I first wrote of how the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) was now requiring those it funded to make the resulting research freely available, if after a 12-month delay (to appease publisher pushback). I called it at the time a “tipping point” in the growing efforts to secure public or open access to all research worldwide. …
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