Christopher Guly covered Family Matters with Justice Harvey Brownstone in the August 20, 2010 edition of the The Lawyers Weekly. The story includes a photo and interview with Omar Ha-Redeye.

	Interview & Photo of Omar Ha-Redeye
A TRAILBLAZING judge hopes to become a TV personality

CanBarPrep, a proprietary service by legal academics to assist law graduates in preparation for the Ontario law exams, has published a testimonial by Omar Ha-Redeye on their website. Omar Ha-Redeye enrolled in the course in May/June of 2010.

“A lot of these subjects were unfamiliar to me from law school. This course really helped with bar prep, which is otherwise self-study under tight timelines.”

— Omar Ha-Redeye, Western, 2010 CanBarPrep Student

A photo of Omar Ha-Redeye with the Hon. R. Roy McMurtry and Frank Walwyn of Weir Foulds at the OBA Gala was featured on page 39 of the August edition of Briefly Speaking, the monthly publication by the Ontario Bar Association (OBA).

Omar Ha-Redeye was interviewed in both the London Free Press and the The Beacon Herald on a conference held at Huron College at the University of Western Ontario where he participated as a teacher,

Recent University of Western Ontario Law School graduate Omar Ha-redeye was attracted to scriptural reasoning when he recognized the similarities with his own profession.

“It’s a very rich and fruitful experience for my practice and study of law,” he said, noting the parallels between scriptural reasoning and the interpretive character of the common law tradition.

Ha-redeye has the advantage of having members of all three Abrahamic faiths in his immediate family, giving him special insight into differences and commonalities among the traditions.

His recent law research in Israel revealed that there are principles of Islamic and Jewish law at the roots of the British common law model. He said recognizing similar common ground in religion helps break down prejudice and “scaremongering” about the beliefs and practices of others.

Ochs, Danaher and Ha-Redeye will be at the conference along with 60 students and teachers from schools such as Yale, Duke and the University of Toronto.

The Centre for Abrahamic Religions at Huron College is hosting a Scriptural Reasoning conference at the University of Western Ontario. The school is part of the Diocese of Huron.

Omar Ha-Redeye is slated as a teacher for the session.

Contributors from Slaw gathered at the offices of Heenan Blaikie to celebrate the 5th anniversary of the site.  Bryan Smith of Canadian Lawyer was on hand to record the event and interview Simon Chester and Simon Fodden.

Laura Bergus describes her experience with how U.S. News used a photo of her in an article discussing the challenges that recent law graduates are facing due to the recession.

As expected, social media was key,

This is a social media success story. (Thanks to my Twitter friend Omar Ha-Redeye for pointing that out, clichéd as it may be.) If nothing else, it’s evidence of the point that most journalists start with Google, and if you’ve made any kind of SEOed name for yourself in a particular field, they can, and will, find you online.

Want to get interviewed by journalists, or increase your public profile for potential employers?  A social media presence is teh best place to start.

Freelance technology writer Luigi Benetton quoted Omar Ha-Redeye in Going paperless at the office is possible with some astute planning, determination in the April 2, 2010 edition of The Lawyers Weekly:

Reduce wait times, part two
Scanning speed also makes a difference. Since faster scanners generally cost more, law student Omar Ha-Redeye offers the following suggestions: small offices can make do with speeds of 25 pages per minute (ppm), midsize firms may opt for 50 ppm, and large firms can go for 100 ppm.

‘If you want to move massive numbers of documents, you don’t want people sitting around,’ Ha-Redeye says…

Making documents ‘findable’
Scanners can create image files from paper documents, but lawyers want more. OCR makes the text in scanned files (Adobe PDFs are the undisputed standard here) machine-readable which, when combined with a powerful search tool, greatly lessens the time it takes lawyers to find documents that contain specific keywords.

‘It’s all about searchability,’ contends Ha-Redeye. ‘If you’re not going to use OCR from the get-go, don’t bother scanning. I just don’t see the point’…

Fast finding
Even if everybody minimizes file sizes, PDFs will pile up on file servers.

Ha-Redeye recommends getting fast document servers to speed up searches through PDF haystacks. ‘Servers can get bogged down when many people search for documents at the same time,’ Ha-Redeye says…

Software
Scanner makers bundle software like Adobe Acrobat with their wares, but Ha-Redeye’s Acrobat experience hasn’t been entirely satisfactory. ‘For older documents that contain different font sets, it’s more challenging for Adobe to recognize words, so I use ABBYY FineReader,’ he says. ‘It seems to get just about any text or font type that causes problems for Adobe.’

…’It’s becoming an expectation for new lawyers,’ adds Ha-Redeye. ‘If you’re not going paperless, if you don’t have the latest scanner technology, you’re not a place where people want to work.

‘If I can make 300 billable hours more at another firm doing the same amount of work, just because they have better systems there, I feel more fulfilled and I feel like I’m getting more out of my time in the office.’

ESRI‘s bi-annual newsletter, Healthy GIS, covered an upcoming publication in their Spring 2010 newsletter. Omar Ha-Redeye has a chapter in the text, GIS in Hospital and Healthcare Emergency Management, edited by Ric Skinner.

After a new initiation ceremony, the Phi Delta Phi chapter at UWO Law, Rand Inn, is back.

From the Phi Delta Phi website:

The University of Western Ontario has had a chapter since 1978, called Rand Inn after the founding dean of the law school. But Rand Inn has been defunct in recent years due to lack of participation.

In celebration of UWO Law’s 50th anniversary this year, Phi Delta Phi decided to reinvigorate its local chapter by hosting a membership drive. On March 3, 2010, Rand Inn initiated 7 new members at UWO. Al Burton, the Province President for Phi Delta Phi and a partner at Thomson Rogers, came from Toronto to administer the ceremony.

“The principles of Phi Delta Phi stand for professionalism and legal ethics, said Omar Ha-Redeye, a third-year law student, and Magister of the Inn. “It’s a perfect match for our school, which is considered a pioneer in this field.”

Over 400 members of Rand Inn are listed in the fraternity’s directory, all graduates of UWO Law since 1978.

Current members of Rand Inn at the University of Western Ontario Law; (From Left) Kristopher Manitius, Joel Welch, Matthew Wilson, Omar Ha-Redeye, Benjamin Tinholt, Stephanie Lafrance, John Magyar, Chris Berrigan, Province President Al Burton