Tasked with proposing reforms to the Ontario Rules of Civil Procedure, the Civil Rules Working Group (“Working Group”) misfired rather badly. For example, the Working Group proposed adding a ...

Several times each month, we are pleased to republish a recent book review from the Canadian Law Library Review (CLLR). CLLR is the official journal of the Canadian Association of Law Libraries ...

Many legal ethics issues are interesting to lawyers and non-lawyers alike. There’s the “buried bodies case”, where two lawyers’ commitment to maintaining client confidentiality (in horrifying ...

When a senior associate left the firm, the busy practice group leader moved swiftly. Files had to be reassigned, and quickly. The next morning, John, an associate in the group, opened his inbox to ...

Over the last few columns, I have focused primarily on the regulation side of my work in artificial intelligence (AI) risk and regulation. That focus has reflected, in part, my concern about the ...

John is Vice-President, Content, with KMStandards, a library of standard contracts, checklists, and clauses. He has practiced law for over 35 years and been engaged in knowledge management for more ...

Each Monday we present brief excerpts of recent posts from five of Canada’s award­-winning legal blogs chosen at random* from more than 80 recent Clawbie winners. In this way we hope to promote their ...

PÉNAL (DROIT) — preuve pénale — exclusion de la preuve — stupéfiants — droit à la protection contre les fouilles, les perquisitions ou les saisies abusives — maison d’habitation — entrée sans mandat — ...

I recently challenged myself to explore various Gen AI tools to improve my plain language skills and efficiency. As noted in ...