The Friendly Bar Series, No. 9: Where everyone knows your name — The rural advantage in legal practice

By Concillia Muonde ( August 25, 2025, 3:10 PM EDT) -- I used to believe that meaningful legal work required the energy of skyscrapers and the anonymity of big-city courthouses. But somewhere between the winding back roads of Lanark and the worn wooden benches of Perth in Ontario, I discovered a quieter kind of purpose. The kind where your reputation is not built on headlines or LinkedIn posts, but on whether you return calls, understand the local context behind a protection concern, and still wave at the deputy registrar in the Hungry 7 parking lot....