Perhaps, you say, it is akin to the hockey player, who skates with the puck again and again into the offensive zone, only to be met with a stick here, a shoulder there, caroming into the boards or ...

A considerable amount of Canadian legal scholarship exists within the boundaries of either civil or criminal law. Each camp generally invites separate consideration of gaps, standards, trends, shifts, ...

Brown J. seized the opportunity to “encourage” the federal government to fill the too many judicial vacancies on the federal bench. In my Slaw post, “When a Judge Finds His Dream Case: Hameed v.

In a prior post for Slaw, I argued that law schools should make AI more central to the curriculum. We should teach how to use AI effectively rather than resist it or pretend it isn’t there. To do this ...

As a supplement to our Sunday Summary each month, Supreme Advocacy LLP in Ottawa presents Supreme One-Liners, a super-short descriptive guide to the most recent decisions at the Supreme Court of ...

It’s pretty much impossible to get away from a discussion of how AI is going to affect legal practice these days. From AI tools that allow users to summarize documents to tools that create new ...

What happens if someone infringed your patent application after you have filed your patent application but before it is granted? In many instances, this can be a surprisingly long period of time – ...

Marie-Yosie Saint-Cyr, LL.B., was called to the Quebec bar in 1988 and is still a member in good standing. She practised business, employment and labour law until 1999. For over 25 years, Marie-Yosie ...

Allison wolf is a senior business coach working with lawyers across North America. She is also the founder of the Associate Mentorship Plus (AMP) Club, a year-long program designed to give junior ...

Founding Executive Director of the Law Commission of Ontario (2007-2015); Dean of Law, University of Calgary (2001-2006); currently independent. (In an earlier life, [assist.] professor of political ...