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- Friday Jobs Roundup May 3, 2024Each Friday, we share the latest job listings from Slaw Jobs, which features employment opportunities from across the country. Find out more about these positions by following the links below, or learn how you can use Slaw Jobs to gain valuable exposure for your job ads, while supporting the great Canadian legal commentary at Slaw.ca. Current […]
- Law Firm Failures — the New Normal? May 2, 2024Legal service is a business. Run it that way. Many law firms are successful by accident. Anyone who knows anything about traditional law firm structures knows they are perilously fragile. It doesn’t take much to bring them down. Up until this latest debacle—the 2024 collapse of Minden Gross—Canada’s highest-profile law firm failures were Heenan Blaikie […]
- Dealing With a Breach of a Court Order May 1, 2024When a party fails to abide by an interlocutory court order, there can be several consequences. For instance in Ontario, Rule 60.12 of the Rules of Civil Procedure states that “…the court may, in addition to any other sanction provided by these rules, (a) stay the party’s proceeding; (b) dismiss the party’s proceeding or strike […]
- Delays in Access to Justice and Memories May 1, 2024Everyone is the poet of their memories. … But like the best poems, they’re also never really finished because they gain new meaning as time reveals them in different lights. Richard Hell The resolution of disputes does not always depend on the memories of parties or witnesses, but when credibility is at issue the memories […]
- Awakening the Sun April 30, 2024I recently read about an interesting concept about reframing one’s point of view. It stated that if you wake up with the sun, you are still asleep. However if you awaken the sun, then you are truly awake. I had to read it a few times to actually understand it’s meaning, but then I realized […]