What happened in Canadian lawyers’ ethics and legal services regulation in 2024? This column looks back on three high-profile areas of development. It also flags several major court cases and ...

This week’s top three summaries: R v Haley, 2025 ONSC 265: s.7 #disclosure, R v AV, 2025 ONSC 57: #similar fact, and R v Lemay-Storms, 2025 ABKB 39: #principled exception R v Haley, 2025 ONSC 265 ...

When issues arise in condos, there are benefits to working with those involved to address them. Collaborating offers advantages unavailable through an adversarial path – such as relationship ...

I typically write about lawyer discipline, not judicial discipline. But to my surprise, there seems to have been virtually no attention to the important decision of the Ontario Divisional Court in ...

The traditional business development approaches for lawyers – expensive dinners, conferences, and rigid networking events – are not the only ways to build your book. In today’s rapidly evolving legal ...

Joan Chambers has been practising law since 1991 and is a Partner at Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP in the Business Group. She practises in the area of complex commercial transactions Debra Finlay is a ...

Alastair Clarke is the Founder of Clarke Immigration Law, a full-service legal firm based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Called the Bar in Ontario (2008) and Manitoba (2013), he has practiced for both private ...

Michael Litchfield is a management consultant, lawyer and educator and is the Managing Director of Emerald Engine Research Inc., an AI consultancy and research firm based in Victoria, BC. In addition ...

Daniel Poulin is professor and Chair holder of the Legal Information Research Chair at the Faculty of Law of the University of Montreal. He is the main author of the CanLII Web site and has lead its ...