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Sponsoring Women: What Men Need to Know

Ida O. Abbott

Excerpt: Chapter 3, “Sponsorship is More than Mentorship”. Excerpted with permission from Attorney at Work. $35 ($24 digital edition).

The practice of mentorship is well known and well established in today’s workplace. A mentor is someone who helps a more junior . . . [more]

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The Judicial Regulation of Lawyers in Canada

Amy Salyzyn
Dalhousie Law Journal, 2014, Forthcoming

Excerpt: Introduction and Part IV

[Footnotes omitted. They can be found in the original via the link above]

Introduction

This article traces developments in lawyer regulation in Canada over the last forty years, with a focus on the . . . [more]

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The Lawyer’s Guide to Um

Barbara Gotthelf
Legal Communication &Rhetoric: JALWD Fall 2014/Volume 11

Excerpt: Introduction and Parts I through III

In 2006, my son came home from his first day of eighth grade and reported that his Language Arts teacher, whom I will call Mr. Sweeney, had made a dire announcement: He . . . [more]

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Going it Alone: A Start up Guide for the Sole Practitioner, Second Edition

by Wendy Oughtred © 2014 Canada Law Book. Reprinted with permission.

Excerpt from: Chapter 4: Business Structures [Download the full chapter in PDF]

This chapter is about business styles. In a traditional sense, there are three to choose . . . [more]

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Who Writes? Gender and Judgment Assignment on the Supreme Court of Canada

Peter McCormick
Osgoode Hall Law Journal Vol. 51, no. 2 (2014): 595-626

Excerpt: Summary & Parts V, VI and VIII

[Footnote renumbered]

This article poses the question: Now that women are receiving an increasing share of the seats on the Supreme . . . [more]

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INTERPRETING THE CHARTER WITH INTERNATIONAL LAW: PITFALLS & PRINCIPLES

Benjamin Oliphant
APPEAL: Review of Current Law & Reform Vol. 19, no.1 (2014): 105-129

Excerpt: Part II

(Footnotes omitted. They are available in the online version via the link above.)

II. PRESUMPTIONS OF COMPLIANCE AND CREEPING MONISM

A number of critics have suggested that . . . [more]

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SUCCEEDING AS OUTSIDE COUNSEL: A LAWYER’S GUIDE TO PROVIDING FIRST CLASS LEGAL SERVICES FROM THE CLIENT’S PERSPECTIVE

by Rod Boddie © 2014 American Bar Association. Reprinted with permission of the American Bar Association. All rights reserved. (ABA LPD 2014)

Excerpt: Chapter 1: Legal Services

To begin the discussion about the provision of legal . . . [more]

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REALIZING THE POTENTIAL OF THE PRINCIPLED APPROACH TO EVIDENCE
Lisa Dufraimont
(2013) 39 Queen’s Law Journal 11-39

Excerpt: Part II

[Footnotes omitted. They are in the original that is available via the link on the title above.]

II. Evidence Principles Versus Evidence Rules

The adoption of the principled approach represents a move away . . . [more]

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THE FAILURE OF LAW SOCIETIES TO ACCEPT THEIR DUTY IN LAW TO SOLVE THE UNAFFORDABLE LEGAL SERVICES PROBLEM
Ken Chasse

(Excerpt: pp. 1-3)

There are five propositions that Canada’s law societies must accept if their statements as to what they refer to as their “concern about the access to justice problem” are to . . . [more]

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CANADA: DEATH OF A LEGAL ICON, DAWN OF CHANGE?
Adam Dodek*
Legal Ethics, Vol 17, No. 1, June 2014, pp. 135-137

Excerpt: pp.135-136

When the end came for the storied national law firm of Heenan Blaikie, it came abruptly. On 5 February 2014, the firm issued an understated three-paragraph Press Release . . . [more]

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OUTPERFORM THE COMPETITION: BUSINESS STRATEGIES FOR THE SOCIAL LAW FIRM
Guy Alvarez & Joe Lamport
Ark Group, 2014

Excerpt: Executive Summary

Executive summary

PERHAPS THE most important new trend to emerge in the business world over the last decade has been the concept of the “social business”. CEOs of large corporations have realized . . . [more]

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Editors note: This week’s thinkpiece was timed up to publish concurrently with Judy Gaskell’s review of the same book. Slaw wishes to thank Carole Levitt and Judy Davis for extending such a significant excerpt, along with Judy Gaskell for her review.

INTERNET LEGAL RESEARCH ON A BUDGET

by Carole A. Levitt and . . . [more]