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. Off the Tracks Podcast 2. Michael Geist 3. Sane Split Podcast 4. Family LLB 5. Labour Pains

Off the Tracks Podcast
EP 36: The Going Solo Series Part 7

In this final episode of Off the Tracks’ Going Solo series, we are joined by Faren Bogach. At the time of recording, Faren’s firm, Construct Legal, had only been open 6 weeks and this episode explores her perspectives as a new founder. Faren is an innovator; she is the Founder of Pay Prompt, a legal tech software that provides people with construction law legal information without the need to contact a lawyer, and as the Founder of Construct Legal she has implemented a maximum billable hour policy. …

Michael Geist
Chrystia Freeland’s Hidden Tax: How Canada Should Implement the Copyright Term Extension Buried in Budget 2022

Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland unveiled Budget 2022 yesterday. While much of the focus was on housing and the environment, buried in Annex 3 at page 274 was a promise to extend the term of copyright from the international standard of life of the author plus 50 years to life plus 70 years. The extension fulfills a commitment in the Canada-US-Mexico Trade Agreement with the specific implementation details presumably to come in several weeks in the Budget Implementation Act. …

Sane Split Podcast
Tips for communicating effectively with the other parent

You get yet another text from the other parent, the fifth text today, and by this time you are about to lose your mind. Very little about your kid – a lot about you and what a bad parent you apparently are. What do you do? I offer some tips. …

Family LLB
Own Some Crypto? Here are Some Divorce Basics

If you’re getting a divorce – or just contemplating one – you’re keenly aware the process involves splitting up your matrimonial assets. Traditionally, this means dividing up physical items, as well as intangibles such as bank accounts, investments, corporate shares, real estate investments, pensions, RRSPs, among many others. …

Labour Pains
How Much Time Do You Have to Sue for Unpaid Overtime?

The question of how much time one has within which to start a civil claim for unpaid wages, including unpaid overtime is actually more complicated than it sounds. In Fresco v. Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, 2022 ONCA 115 (CanLII), the Court of Appeal for Ontario refused to allow an employer’s appeal in a proposed class action case on the basis that the applicable limitation period had expired. …

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