Yamri Taddese of the Law Times covered the Legal Practice Program approved at November Convocation, and featured a photo of Omar Ha-Redeye on the cover page:

Omar Ha-Redeye was interviewed by Marg. Bruineman in the Law Times on the Management Board of Cabinet v Association of Law Officers of the Crown arbitration decision:

Omar Ha-Redeye, co-chairman of the Ontario Bar Association’s young lawyers division, says the situation for clerks whose terms of employment prevented their call to the bar would have had further consequences.

He refers to the notion of chronocracy in the legal profession under which time is a valuable element “because there’s so much emphasis on your year of call.”
“This is something that has serious repercussions,” he notes.

The one-year delay has an impact on job prospects, according to Ha-Redeye, because the profession can view it as the equivalent of holding someone back a year in school.

He adds the delay could have an impact on the individual’s practice since the court awards costs on a sliding scale  depending upon the lawyer’s years of experience.

“There’s a lot of things that are hinging on that year of call,” says Ha-Redeye.
Now, however, things have changed for the clerks.

Ron Stang of the Law Times interviewed Omar Ha-Redeye on Lawyers for Fair Taxation:

As the Ontario government released its budget last week, Lawyers for Fair Taxation issued a press release calling on Finance Minister Dwight Duncan to “Tax us. Ontario is worth it.”

Lawyer James Morton says he readily signed the petition calling for higher taxes.
The weekend before, Toronto lawyer Omar Ha-Redeye formed the organization as an offshoot of a group created just prior to that called Doctors for Fair Taxation.

Ha-Redeye has long known the person behind that group, Dr. Michael Rachlis, a health policy expert at the University of Toronto and long a defender of Canada’s public health-care system.

The physicians and lawyers involved have one overall objective: to have richer Canadians — a group they freely admit they are a part of — pay a greater share of their income in taxes, especially at a time when governments are running huge deficits and social services are fraying.

Ha-Redeye says the fact that doctors took the lead shows the relative lack of social consciousness among the legal profession compared to its health-care counterparts.

“It really does emphasize the fact the legal profession, unfortunately — how do I put this politely — we have our heads maybe buried in our books far too often.”

The February 27, 2012 issue of the Law Times covered the Twitter Moot,

STUDENTS COMPETE IN FIRST TWITTER MOOT
West Coast Environmental Law has held a moot competition that allows students to argue their cases entirely through Twitter.

Billed as the world’s first Twitter moot court, the competition featured five teams from law schools across Canada that argued a mock appeal of a recent precedent-setting environmental case, West Moberly First Nations v. British Columbia (Chief Inspector of Mines)…

The competition took place on Feb. 21 and featured judges William Deverell, Omar Ha-Redeye, and Kathleen Mahoney. The Osgoode team won first place in the competition.

The October 2010 issue of Briefly Speaking, the monthly magazine of the Ontario Bar Association, features a photo on page 36 of Omar Ha-Redeye at the Young Lawyers Division – Central fundraiser at the Blue Jays game on July 8, 2010. The event was hosted by Lawyer Locate, Canadian Lawyer, Law Times, Title Plus, Advocate Placement, and Radical Stitches.

The Central Chapter of the Young Lawyer’s Division of the Ontario Bar Association (OBA) hosted a fundraiser for the Jays Care Foundation at the Rogers Centre. The Jays beat the Minnesota Twins 8-1, with 5 home-runs.

The event was sponsored by Lawyer Locate, a lawyer referral service, Canadian Lawyer, Law Times, Title Plus, Advocate Placement, and Radical Stitches.

Photo Credit: Jonathan Clancy, OBA

Photo gallery can be found on the OBA website: