Suspended Nevada state judge Elizabeth Halverson is facing fourteen counts of judicial misconduct. The allegations against Halverson include: the mishandling of trials, falling asleep on the bench, and mistreating her employees. This week testimony was…
Is it possible to be both happy and successful in law? Laura Milligan of Job Profiles thinks so. They wrote in last night and brought an article to our attention that provides tips and other…
Last week the London Free Press shared findings on online gambling by June Cotte, an Associate Professor at the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario. Cotte interviewed regular gamblers at…
You heard us whine about the seven year law degree. But now there’s a school in the U.S. with a two year degree. Time This is a five-semester program that will begin in May. The…
Omar Ha-Redeye interviews the Attorney General of Ontario, Hon. Chris Bentley, and David Aylward of COMCARE
Excerpt from “Woe unto you lawyers“, written in 1939 by the late Fred Rodell, Professor of Law, Yale University. It is the lawyers who run our civilization for us – our governments, our business, our…
Tracy Tyler has a story in today’s Star which notes that although women are the majority of graduates today in law schools, on average they are quitting the profession within seven years. The Law Society…
Law Is Cool is a blog and podcast addressing issues related to law school and the legal field with a Canadian focus. Law is Cool was founded in 2007 by Omar Ha-Redeye and several other…
Don’t believe the hype Twenty years ago the classic Hip Hop group, Public Enemy, said in their hit song, Some media is the whack You believe it’s true, it blows me through the roof Suckers,…
James Michael Bomek, a sex offender and former lawyer in Sask., is on trial for obstruction of justice. Police found seven volumes of diaries that contained information on provincial court judge Terry Bekolay, a former…
Gov. Spitzer of New York has proposed a state tax on drug dealers that would exempt from criminal prosecution. An agreement of confidentiality would also be issued to the dealer, …none of the information may…
We previously suggested that since half of all lawyers in Canada are self-employed, marks have a limited impact on the creative and ambitious lawyers’ career. We asked some of our contacts in the field what…
