Google is 8 today. How time flies when you’re looking for stuff! This means that Slaw has just under 7 years to go to get 30 billion hits a month. Tell your friends to visit us. Spread the word. . . . [more]

On September 21, I posted a request for caselaw and articles discussing transnational electronic data exchanges for discovery/disclosure or in the business management context. Not surprisingly, up to now, it has received no answer.

In fact, to most people and country, this remains a useless topic of no interest. However, being the e-information geek that I am, how can I not wander, in a world of virtual data/documents, how to get e-information from a party or third person residing in a foreign country?

Nowaday, it is so easy for a multinational corporation or anyone, for that matter, to keep its . . . [more]

Interesting post in Law.com about how the first year law students appear to an experienced law librarian, and what their attitudes are to books and paper materials, and to legal research assignments.

This is the start of the so-called Millennial Generation who have been told that they are:

Special: have been told they are special all their lives.

Sheltered: kept from harm’s way and have highly structured lives.

Confident: see special; they expect good news and believe in themselves.

Conventional: accept social rules.

Team-oriented: they like to work together and keep in contact with

We’re building a ‘current affairs’ collection in the library at Osgoode Hall Law School – or more accurately a collection of major daily newspapers and weekly and monthly magazines for general browsing and a break from reading the law. I’d be interested from hearing from SLAWers for recommended titles for addition to this collection, some of which were mentioned during our ‘grey lit’ week. We currently get the NYT, International Herald Tribune, Wall Street Journal, the Guardian, Globe and Mail, National Post and Toronto Star. In magazines we get the Spectator, New Yorker, Harpers Bazaar, Atlantic Monthly, McLeans and The . . . [more]

I’ve been a lawyer in Toronto now for four years. Over this time, a lot of law magazines, newspapers and newsletters have crossed my desk. Even though these are publications for lawyers, I never feel like they are really talking to me. They always feel a little old, a little earnest and, well, a little boring.

That’s not me talking — these are the words of Melissa Kluger, Editor-in-Chief of a new blog titled “Precedent: The New Rules of Law and Style.” It’s pretty good — entertaining and thoughtful, and that’s a tough combination to pull off. Hers is another . . . [more]

Nous l’avons vu, trois questions se posent sur cette affaire passionnante actuellement en cours devant la Cour suprême: 1) la clause a t-elle été consentie par le consommateur? 2) la conciliation «arbitrage» versus «recours collectif» penche de quel côté? Sur cette question, sur laquelle nous reviendrons, lire sur le site de mon collègue Bachand le Factum auquel il a participé à la rédaction pour l’intervenant London Court of International Arbitration.
3) qui du juge ou de l’arbitre devait statuer de la question? Commençons par celle qui nous rejoint plus naturellement relative à la qualité du consentement.

D’abord, il convient . . . [more]

As Simon F mentioned on Friday, I had the great fortune to attend the annual meeting of the College of Law Practice Management in San Francisco earlier this month. The topic of the day was at the heart of 21st-century lawyering: innovation. Specifically, why lawyers aren’t very good at it.

One of the delegates made an important distinction at the start. When it comes to actual legal work, lawyers can innovate like crazy. Corporate lawyers have designed some of the most innovative (and profitable) financial instruments around; litigators are always finding new angles from which to argue cases, and so . . . [more]

There’s an interesting post on IT.Can Blog / Blogue de IT.Can on the collection of information by law firms. In two cases, law firms collected credit information on people their clients were considering action against, and the people investigated complained to the Privacy Commissioner. According to PIPEDA Case Summary #340, the Assistant Commissioner decided that the complaints were well-founded and made the recommendations that “the firm[s] implement a policy that prohibits conducting credit checks without appropriate consent, unless for a permissible purpose. The firm[s] responded by refusing to accept the recommendation[s].” The report notes further that:

For both

we are read in the Nederlands

Dank aan onze vrienden in Amsterdam. Wij begroeten allen bloggern.

Iemand zou het posten op Nederlandse wet moeten doen. Misschien Ejan Mackaay in Montreal.

Slaw in Canada . . . [more]

The Beeb has a good discussion of the implications of the latest Pew survey on the future of the Internet.There is a good summary on the wires.

So what did the gurus see happening over the next fourteen years? . . . [more]

Un diner en compagnie du professeur Daniel Poulin et de Frédéric Pelletier, tous 2 partageant la même passion que moi pour le droit et les technologies, m’a permis d’en apprendre davantage sur tout ce que Lexum fait pour nous… et pour le monde entier!

Comme, sans doute, la majorité d’entre vous, je croyais, à tord, que LexUM était “exclusivement” en charge des jugements de la cour Suprême et de IIJCAN. Vous aurez compris la raison pour laquelle j’utilise les guillemets… . . . [more]

Occasionally the Friday Fillip makes you work and today’s is another one of those. But the work is as hard as flipping through a catalogue, which, if done with a refreshing libation at hand, can be merely exhausting for a finger or two.

The catalog through which to flip is Kevin Kelly’s Cool Tools website. I know what you’re thinking… (Well, actually, I don’t, which is a nuisance only some of the time.) This is not simply an electronic gadget site, though it can be that if you sincerely want it to be. “Cool” is an expansive term of praise . . . [more]