Law Society of Ontario: Time to wipe the slate or start over with a new one?

By Sam Goldstein ( October 17, 2025, 3:30 PM EDT) -- As the originator of the idea to run a slate in the 2019 Law Society of Ontario bencher election, I am not sorry I did so. Slates have been blamed for everything from “open warfare” in convocation to the supposed erosion of public confidence in the legal profession. In a March 2023 edition of SLAW, one writer called the idea of lawyers organizing and debating as groups “repugnant.” He predicted that visible disagreement among factions of lawyers would lead to public distrust....