If you are planning on getting married anytime soon, then keep reading as you need to know that not all marriage licences are created equal. By: Pagan Cheung, Paralegal Student. Published: Sun Jun 01 2014 Photo Credit: Kim…
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For everyone who has followed and supported Law is Cool over the years, there is a small change in content that you will see over the next few months. Facilitating access to justice has always…
INDEPENDENT OFFICE OF PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY: GREATER POWER ; ACCESS TO RESOURCES MUST BE BALANCED WITH GREATER RESPONSIBILITY AND INSPECTION OF PUBLIC LAWYERS SUCH AS PROSECUTORS Introduction  What is the proper scope of state power…
One of the founding members of Law is Cool, Thomas Wisdom, passed away this weekend, just days before his 30th birthday. Service times at Ogden Funeral Home later this week can be found here. Thomas…
Law students like to think the have it rough. Â But some of us have it rougher than others, especially those of us that took the less traveled road to law school. This evening The Star…
Blawg Review is an international peer-reviewed blog carnival, presenting various recent blog posts with a legal connection, traveling to different legal blogs every week. I had the pleasure of hosting Blawg Review 249 on Slaw,…
The 2010 Canadian Law Blog Awards are out! Law is Cool was a finalist for the Legal Culture Award. In the past, we won the Legal Culture Award in 2009 and 2007, and were finalists…
The Law is Cool podcast, which has run on this site for over three years, was featured this week in The Lawyers Weeekly, one of Canada’s main legal publications. The article interviews Omar Ha-Redeye, the…
Law is Cool has made the finals for Canada’s Best Law Blog. You can cast your vote in support here.
The Lawyers Weekly, Canada’s first print news publication for legal professionals, has profiled Omar Ha-Redeye, founder of this site. You can read the profile by Christopher Guly on the website here, Ha-Redeye established the Western…
In light of our recent collaboration with The Court, we’ve decided to pick someone from outside the Law is Cool community this year for our annual recognition of the Student Blawger of the Year. This…
Devin Johnston, who has directed the podcasts for this site for over a year now, was awarded the I.H. Asper Award for Outstanding Extracurricular Contribution in Broadcasting & Journalism. The award is presented by the…
