By Shane Burton-Stoner (November 9, 2022, 11:30 AM EST) -- For lawyers, reputation is everything. A lawyer faced with false and defamatory statements about their personal performance would of course take issue with those statements. In Kohlenberg v. Canada (Attorney General) 2022 FC 906, a lawyer with the Department of Justice was accused of failing to meet expectations. The lawyer considered those statements defamatory, but had his grievance dismissed on the grounds that the statements benefited from qualified privilege....