September 24, 2026
Meili Toner and Antonia Chircop have joined Pink Larkin as associates in its Halifax office.
September 24, 2026
Allison Warshawski has joined Mathews Dinsdale as an associate in its Vancouver office.
September 24, 2026
I used to advise clients who were involved in shareholder disputes. I would always ask whether the shareholders had been less than angelic in their dealings with each other and the tax department. Although businesspeople tend not to judge people who only steal from the tax department to be all that bad, for the sake of simplicity I will refer to both shareholders who steal from each other, and shareholders who steal from the tax department, as crooks.
September 23, 2026
Michelle F. Yung has joined McCarthy Tétrault as a partner in its real estate group in Calgary, advising clients across Western Canada.
September 23, 2026
Michelle Kropp and Will Russell have joined Sport Law as partners in Toronto.
September 23, 2026
Cain Lamarre has welcomed Marie-Claude Forest as senior director of business strategy in Montreal.
September 23, 2026
Chief Justice of Canada Richard Wagner says Canada’s independent justice system and perspective on confronting global threats to the rule of law has attracted interest abroad. Speaking Sept. 22 at a Newfoundland and Labrador law society event in St. John’s, Chief Justice Wagner told local lawyers and those online that he was the only non-European court leader invited to attend the meeting in Cyprus last June of the Network of the Presidents of the Supreme Judicial Courts of the 27-member European Union (EU).
September 23, 2026
Quebec’s new judicial guidelines offer an occasion to examine how AI assistance enters a litigation file, without confusing judicial guidance with lawyers’ duties.
September 23, 2026
In 1171757 Ontario Limited et al. v. 1171758 Ontario Limited et al., 2026 ONSC 4414, the Superior Court of Justice applied the rules of contractual interpretation to hold that a shareholder of a corporate partner qualified as a “party” to a partnership agreement, even if he is not a principal under that corporation, or has ceded controlling power to his partner by way of a power of attorney (POA).
September 22, 2026
Dalraj Singh Gill has joined Protea LLP as an associate in Toronto.