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Lawyer suspended after heas accused of plying teens with alcohol and touching one of them sexually
1st Circuit allows suit by fired worker who refused to remove Black Lives Matter face mask
aOh, shoot, Iam still streaming,a judge says, after telling staffer awe all knowa murder defendant is guilty
Lawyer disbarred for destroying his computer, altering metadata before ethics hearing
With addition of 17 lawyers, Baker McKenzie picks up most of this firmas corporate team
How to rid house of leavened products during Passover? Mormon law prof has contracts for that
Supreme Court wonat hear lawyeras challenge to anti-bias ethics rule
Both sides denied sanctions in Boies Schiller sex-trafficking suit
Where law firms and legal departments are succeeding with innovation
10 temporary federal judgeships would become permanent under Senate bill approved on voice vote
Second groundbreaking ABA AI and economic justice webinar set for April 26
Lawyer seeking sanctions adescended into schoolyard anticsa at deposition, Quinn Emanuel says
Gender bias suit against Lewis Brisbois cites asycophantica attorney favoritism, asystemic business deficienciesa
From Intake to Outcome: An in-house lawyeras guide to matter management solutions
2 BigLaw firms in merger talks that could produce 1,600-lawyer firm with top 50 revenue
Send in the paralegals
Lawyer reprimanded after mistakenly emailing opposing counsel with plan to avoid judgeas call
aI donat play wella judge who threatened to track down, jail misbehaving litigant gets tossed from case
Netflixas aThe Hatchet Wielding Hitchhikera smashes the circumstantial evidence argument
4 data security considerations for GCs when engaging contract lawyers
The future of DEI programs in the legal industry
Chemerinsky: Will SCOTUS consider it cruel and unusual punishment to prosecute homeless people for sleeping in public?
Which judges are most likely to issue nationwide injunctions? Party of appointing president makes a difference
Judge allows BigLaw partneras suit alleging lawyer filed ahighly inflammatorya affidavit for use in negative news article
Should ABA strike anonlawyera from its vocabulary? Petition says itas time
Summaries Sunday: SOQUIJ
Every week we present the summary of a decision handed down by a QuA(c)bec court provided to us by SOQUIJ and considered to be of interest to our readers throughout Canada. SOQUIJ is attached to the QuA(c)bec Department of Justice and collects, analyzes, enriches, and disseminates legal information in QuA(c)bec. PANAL (DROIT) : L’appel de la dA(c)claration de dA(c)linquant dangereux prononcA(c)e A l’endroit de l’accusA(c) est rejetA(c), et ce, bien que le juge de premiA"re instance ait mal A(c)noncA(c) l’A(c)tat du droit et que la structure du jugement de dA(c)termination de la peine soit critiquable; la Cour n’y voit aucune . . . [more]
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Book Review: Big Data
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 (CALL/ACBD), and its reviews cover both practice-oriented and academic publications related to the law. Big Data. Edited by Benoit Leclerc & Jesse Cale. Abingdon: Routledge, 2020. 148 p. Includes illustrations, bibliographic references, and index. Criminology at the Edge series. ISBN 9781138492783 (hardcover) $136.00; ISBN 9781032336992 (softcover) $42.36; ISBN 9781351029704 (eBook) $42.36.
Reviewed by Matthew Renaud
Law Librarian,
E.K. Williams Law Library, University of Manitoba . . . [more]
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Governance Reform and Lawyer Independence in Canadian Legal Regulation: Examining British Columbiaas Bill 21
Earlier this month, the government of British Columbia introduced Bill 21, the Legal Professions Act. This bill amalgamates the Law Society of British Columbia and the Society of Notaries Public of British Columbia into a new corporation, Legal Professions British Columbia (LPBC), while also creating a licensing and regulation structure for paralegals. It could be the most consequential development in Canadian legal regulation in more than 100 years. The British Columbia legal professionas leading organizations (the Law Society, the Canadian Bar Associationas BC branch, and the Trial Lawyersa Association of BC) strongly oppose Bill 21, with the . . . [more]
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Effective Use of Visual Aids in Mediation
The use of demonstrative or visual aids at mediation is more widely accepted by lawyers and mediators since the legal profession began its rapid embrace of technology. Arguably, the pandemic accelerated this implementation. The technology adoption started with the exchange of electronic mediation briefs, improved access to scanned documents, and the use of video software, like Zoom and Teams. Now, counsel more commonly use Power Point or slides and electronic documentation in their introductory remarks, and present demonstrative aids in their Mediation Briefs to bolster arguments by visual communication. Through technology, counsel can now utilize a variety of demonstrative aids . . . [more]
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BC Court of Appeal Recognizes the Myth of False Allegations of Intimate Partner Violence
Case Commented On: KMN v SZM, 2024 BCCA 70 (CanLII), overturning 2023 BCSC 940 (CanLII) We have both written previously on myths and stereotypes about intimate partner violence (IPV), one of the most common of which is that women make false or exaggerated claims of violence to gain an advantage in family law disputes (see here and here). In KMN v SZM, 2024 BCCA 70 (CanLII), the British Columbia Court of Appeal (BCCA) recognized the existence of this myth and the need for courts to avoid making assumptions that perpetuate it, holding that it is . . . [more]
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