Canada
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Biglaw, Canada, Rankings
The View From Up North: The Seven Sisters vs. The Internationals
Chambers and Partners has published its Canadian law firm rankings for 2015. How did your firm do? -
Canada, Police
The View From Up North: Alberta Town Needs 'Footloose' Intervention
Does this small town need the kind of assistance that only Kevin Bacon can provide to save it from an unconstitutional law? - Sponsored
Legal AI: 3 Steps Law Firms Should Take Now
If 2023 introduced legal professionals to generative AI, then 2024 will be when law firms start adapting to utilize it. Things are moving fast, so… -
Canada, Career Alternatives
The View From Up North: A Lawyer Who Helps You Make Babies
Meet a lawyer who spends her entire day assisting couples who are having difficulty navigating the complex world of assisted reproduction.
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Biglaw, Canada, Law Firm Mergers
The View From Up North: The DLA Piper/Davis Merger
Was Davis in financial trouble prior to the announcement of its merger with DLA Piper? -
Canada, Sports
The View From Up North: Two Lawyers Chase Their Hockey Passion
Two lawyers explain their interesting outside pursuit to Canada columnist Steve Dykstra. -
Canada, Money
The View From Up North: Toronto Lawyer Wins The Lottery!
The lawyer has apparently taken a one-year sabbatical from her litigation job. We guess the firm doesn't think she'll be back -- it already pulled her bio from its website. -
Canada, Suicide
The View From Up North: Supreme Court Of Canada Approves Dying With Dignity
The Supreme Court of Canada struck down the laws preventing doctor-assisted suicide. How will this affect you? -
Canada
The View From Up North: Practicing Law In An Ocean Paradise
What's it like to practice law in the Cayman Islands? Tranquil. - Sponsored
Navigating Financial Success by Avoiding Common Pitfalls and Maximizing Firm Performance
In this CLE-eligible webinar, we’ll explore the most common accounting pitfalls and how to avoid them for your firm. -
Canada, Minority Issues, Racism
The View From Up North: Driving While Black
Does getting one gun off the street justify that police are three times more likely to stop blacks than whites in Toronto? -
Canada, Career Alternatives
The View From Up North: Meet a Very Funny Lawyer
Meet a lawyer who lost her mojo for laying the prosecutorial smackdown on some pretty bad dudes and decided to become a stand-up comedian instead. -
Canada, Technology
The View From Up North: Will ROSS App Make Life Better For Lawyers?
Practitioners are anxious and waiting to see if this new technology will result in cutting out lawyers and putting them out of business. -
Canada
The View From Up North: Will Adding Women Board Members Make A Difference?
What is Canada doing to close the gender gap, and does it even matter? -
Canada
The View From Up North: Biggest Story of 2014
May 2015 bring you all the business wisdom you already think you have.
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Early Adopters Of Legal AI Gaining Competitive Edge In Marketplace
The Business Case For AI At Your Law Firm
Navigating Financial Success by Avoiding Common Pitfalls and Maximizing Firm Performance
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Legal AI: 3 Steps Law Firms Should Take Now
Is The Future Of Law Distributed? Lessons From The Tech Adoption Curve
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Canada, Cellphones
The View From Up North: Supreme Court Of Canada Condones Cellphone Searches
Where would you rather be charged with a crime, Canada or North Korea? The more we chisel away at the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the less clear the answer becomes. -
Canada
The View From Up North: Grand Jury System Ain’t So Grand
What’s the number one thing we’ve recently learned about America’s grand jury system? It ain’t so grand. -
Books, Canada, Litigators
The View From Up North: What Are You Reading For The Holidays?
Twenty leading litigators talk about some of their most celebrated cases. -
Canada, Quote of the Day, Sex, Sex Scandals
The Tawdry Tale Of Justice Lori Douglas Comes To An End
This story, which started off with a bang -- or rather banging, memorialized in nude photos -- ends with a whimper. -
Canada, Dewey & LeBoeuf, English Grammar and Usage, Morning Docket, Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Morning Docket: 11.28.14
* John Altorelli, the finance lawyer who allegedly had an affair with sexy Russian spy Anna Chapman, is indeed screwed — he’s the second former Dewey & LeBoeuf partner to file for personal bankruptcy in the wake of the firm’s collapse. [American Lawyer]
* Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who had a heart procedure on Wednesday, left the hospital yesterday and should be back on the bench on Monday. [CNN]
* Canada’s newest Supreme Court justice, Suzanne Cote, is no stranger to the spotlight; she’s worked on high-profile cases like the investigation into Justice Lori Douglas (of nude photo fame). [How Appealing]
* Michele Roberts, leading litigatrix and former Skadden partner, is settling into her new job as executive director of the National Basketball Players Association. [New York Times]
* Newly released deposition testimony from Bill Cosby will probably only worsen his PR woes. [Associated Press]
* Stuck in the office today with nothing to do? Take this fun exercise to test your punctuation and copy-editing skills, designed by Bryan A. Garner. [ABA Journal]
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Canada, Racism
The View From Up North: Tragedy In Ferguson, Missouri
On a day-to-day basis the American racial divide is still a canyon, broad and deep. How can we fix it? -
Attorney Misconduct, Canada, Legal Ethics, Trials, United Kingdom / Great Britain
The View From Up North: Courtroom Poetry Scandal
Is it improper to deliver a closing argument in a criminal trial in the form of a poem?