June 24, 2026
When I became the managing partner of my firm, we hired an excellent general manager, who ultimately became our COO. I will call her Bev. Bev had a background in business, significant experience in Human Resources, and a great capacity for emotional intelligence, all of which were in short supply among our partners.
June 24, 2026
Tyler Williamson has joined Clark Wilson as an associate in its employment and labour group in Vancouver.
June 24, 2026
The Law Society of Ontario (LSO) awarded honorary doctor of laws (LLD) degrees to six individuals at its June call to the bar ceremonies.
June 24, 2026
McDougall Gauley LLP has added Joy M. Brailean, Shaan Kapila, Jenna L. Sabine and Tenielle A. Workman as lawyers following their articling with the firm, the Saskatchewan firm says. All were called to the bar in May and June 2026.
June 23, 2026
DLA Piper has appointed Alan Sarhan as managing partner of its Montreal office.
June 23, 2026
A 2025 call to the Ontario bar and a 2024 call to the B.C. bar, Madison Sutherland has joined Aird & Berlis as an associate in the firm’s capital markets group.
June 23, 2026
The Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs has publicly weighed in on a Supreme Court of Canada nomination, stating they “wholeheartedly endorse” Manitoba Court of King’s Bench Chief Justice Glenn Joyal’s candidacy and are “confident he will bring fairness, wisdom and humility to Canada’s highest court.”
June 23, 2026
Notwithstanding the multitude of admonishments that courts in several jurisdictions have given to lawyers about the use of non-existent cases or hallucinated quotations from real cases to support their positions, lawyers continue to use generative artificial intelligence to conduct legal research without checking and verifying its output.
June 23, 2026
For years, the conversation surrounding mental health in the Canadian legal profession operated under a false assumption: that stress is an equal-opportunity employer. The prevailing narrative suggested that because the practice of law is inherently demanding, every practitioner faces identical hurdles, and therefore, the same prescription of individual “resilience” should suffice to keep teams high-performing and healthy.
June 23, 2026
“What do you call a well-rested lawyer?” “The defendant.” I recently experimented with AI to determine whether it could tell me a legal joke as sort of demonstrated above. It succeeded to a certain extent, but more on that later.