September 29, 2026
Canadian lawyers are rapidly adopting artificial intelligence tools to streamline legal work, but industry leaders say firms must carefully assess privacy and data-retention risks. While AI could lower the cost of legal services and help serve more clients, it cannot replace human judgment and client relationships, they say.
September 29, 2026
Since November 2025, Alberta students-at-law are no longer required to pledge “true allegiance” to King Charles III to become an Alberta lawyer. Yet most don’t even know it.
September 29, 2026
On Oct. 5, Quebecers will be voting for the politicians who are together supposed to constitute the 43rd legislature of Quebec’s national assembly. However, a law passed by the assembly following the election held on Oct. 3, 2022, risks undermining the legality of any parliamentary activities, votes and laws adopted by the new legislature after it begins sitting later this fall. This is the law titled An Act to recognize the oath provided in the Act respecting the National Assembly as the sole oath required in order to sit in the Assembly, S.Q. 2022, c. 30 (Act to recognize the oath).
September 28, 2026
The Law Society of Ontario (LSO) has approved participation in a cybersecurity awareness program for lawyers and paralegals as the profession faces increasingly sophisticated threats to confidential client information, funds and property.
September 28, 2026
Anthony de Fazekas has joined Pulse Law as a lawyer and intellectual property lead, working in Toronto and Kitchener-Waterloo, Ont.
September 28, 2026
Brynne Thomas and Sian Shin have returned to Epstein Cole as associates in Toronto after previously working with the firm as summer and articling students.
September 28, 2026
Alberta has announced four judicial appointments, including one applications judge to the Court of King’s Bench and three justices to the Alberta Court of Justice.
September 25, 2026
Supreme Court of Canada Justice Suzanne Côté has significantly impacted the top court’s jurisprudence and culture since her appointment almost 12 years ago, says University of Alberta constitutional law professor Gerard Kennedy.
September 25, 2026
Supreme Court of Canada Justice Suzanne Côté is thinking about what life after the bench might look like, she tells Law360 Canada. The court’s impactful and most prolific judge, who turned 68 this week with no apparent loss of drive or energy, says she is healthy and still loves the work that has earned her a reputation as a trailblazer and original thinker.
September 25, 2026
Nova Scotia’s law society has officially adopted an admissions-level competency program initiated by its counterparts in Western Canada.