Pulse
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April 29, 2025
Scott Robson joins Lerners
Lerners has announced the addition of Scott Robson as an associate in its business law group.
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April 29, 2025
Clark Wilson welcomes new associate Harkeerit Shoker
Clark Wilson has announced the addition of Harkeerit Shoker as a new associate in its private company mergers and acquisitions group.
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April 29, 2025
Windsor Law’s workplace safety insurance course begins May 6, 2025
Kudos to Windsor Law dean Reem A. Bahdi and assistant dean Lisa Trabucco for having the foresight and initiative to introduce professional education programs. I’m so pleased their first course offering is a much-needed workplace safety insurance law program.
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April 29, 2025
Ontario Trial Lawyers Association concerned about pace, recommendations of civil rules review
The Ontario Trial Lawyers Association (OTLA) is raising alarm bells about a recent report from a task force recommending a sweeping overhaul of the province’s civil rules, with the organization’s president-elect saying many of the recommendations and the pace of the consultation process itself are problematic.
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April 29, 2025
Navigating workplace mental health concerns during a trade war
In these uncertain economic times, more people may be inclined to ignore mental health issues and continue to work for fear of losing their jobs. That can be a mistake.
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April 29, 2025
The strange case of Lawrence Harvey Zeiger
Lawrence Harvey Zeiger was a nice Jewish boy, born in 1933 to Eastern European immigrants who ran a bar and grill in Brooklyn, N.Y.
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April 28, 2025
Ontario’s ‘tough-on-crime’ proposals for judicial selection could backfire, lawyers warn
Two leaders with Ontario’s criminal justice bar are concerned that new “tough-on-crime” measures announced by Premier Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservative government could serve to undermine the province’s criminal justice system rather than strengthen it.
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April 28, 2025
U of T law professor John Borrows awarded Mundell Medal for excellence in legal writing
The Ontario government has announced that the 2024 David Walter Mundell Medal for excellence in legal writing has been awarded to professor John Borrows.
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April 28, 2025
When the system came for me, my co-counsel was AI
In July 2023, I was detained and charged by an officer of the Toronto Police Service during a low-speed parking manoeuvre in downtown Toronto. My dashcam footage contradicted the officer’s claims. Still, I was detained for nearly an hour, falsely accused of impaired driving and issued four additional traffic charges. What followed was a two-year ordeal filled with obstruction, delay and procedural abuse by the Toronto Police Service and the City of Toronto’s legal counsel.
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April 28, 2025
Law firms restricting social media posts: More sinister than just hatred
I recently wrote an article titled "Hate everything or risk the consequences" in which I lamented that law firms restrict the social medial activity of their lawyers. But then I spoke to writer Tony Albrecht, who knows a lot about this stuff, and I now realize I understated the problem.