Legal Professionals Are Out Of Time And Driven To Succeed
By Ho Cheung Chan The legal profession has a myth about work life balance, and the truth was that it did not exist in the large traditional law firm model. The choices and structure of…
Healthy Balance of Life-Work
By: Jasintha Kunasegaram For many years, we Canadians have played many different roles in our lives. As years go by, our roles only add up, and never reduce. Hence, it’s hard to make some time…
Law Professionals Seeking Work-Life Balance
For Communication & Writing class, by L. Appleton There is a common theme amongst lawyers and professionals trying to find a work-life balance for those in the legal profession, and that theme is you. You are responsible for…
Work – Life Balance:  Is It Attainable?
by Ann Barrow Attainable:  Not really: Distressing, frustrating, discouraging? Stephen Mabey’s article brought those adjectives to my mind Mabey’s rightly deems lawyers to have real choice in the matter of achieving balance in their lives,…
Working in the Legal Field — Practice Videos
THEORY AND PRAXIS: As my college professor/lawyer, Omar Ha Redeye, teaches–creating videos, blogs and websites–go along way to helping paralegal graduates obtain work. Â This would apply to newly minted lawyers as well. Omar has our…
COPYRIGHT BOARD SETS RATES FOR ONLINE MUSIC STREAMING SERVICES/ By Sharifullah Mahboob
This new move to set royalties for internet music streaming and sound recordings is a small but fundamental step that secures copyright holders. Toronto lawyer and partner of Brauti Thorning Zibarras LLP Mark McMackin says:…
How more than 300 Nigerian girls were kidnapped by extremists written by Michelle Faul summarized by Rashida Forbes
Tragedy struck Chibok Secondary School in Lagos Nigeria on Monday, May 5, 2014 when nearly 300 female students were kidnapped from their dorm rooms. Terrified by the sound of gun shots blasting in the…
Students Writing LSAT With Accommodation Will Not Have Law School Applications “Flaggedâ€
The non-profit organization Law School Admission Council (LSAC) based in the United States was penalized $7.7 million USD to compensate over 6000 students from the past 5 years for application to accommodate. Prior practice included…
Massachusetts Strike Down Mandatory Life Sentences for Juveniles by Jason E Lau
Last year, the Massachusetts supreme judicial court made a landmark decision that will not only affect the lives of countless young offenders in their state, but also the lives of those across the country. In…
By Stephanie Hannah
According to the Alyshah Hasham of the Toronto Star, Paul Martin, the Canadian man who was acquitted of criminal charges by a Jamaican jury in 2011 is currently facing both criminal and family trials in…
Mandatory Retirement by Alyssandra Dunn
“Supreme Court rules against lawyer who wouldn’t retire at 65†By Alyssandra Dunn Summary John Michael(Mitch) McCormick was a lawyer at Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP for 40 years. At the age of 65 he was…
By Lauren Wianecki
Supreme Court denies lawyer’s challenge of firm’s mandatory retirement for partners John McCormick, a 65-year-old lawyer previously employed by Fasken Martineau law firm in British Columbia was denied his claim of age discrimination by the…