Pulse
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November 15, 2024
If Donald Trump was an Ontario lawyer … | Steve Benmor
Although this is a scary proposition, stay with me and read on.
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November 15, 2024
Wait training | Marcel Strigberger
I’m mad as hell and I’m not waiting any longer! This was the reaction expressed by a lawyer colleague of mine, Franklin, after his doctor kept him waiting for over two hours. He bellowed, “I should send him a bill for my wasted time.”
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November 15, 2024
New counsel, junior counsel join Lenczner Slaght
Recent news releases from Lenczner Slaght announced the addition of David Doherty as counsel and Monika Steger as junior counsel.
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November 15, 2024
How can I help you? | Murray Gottheil
One day, quite a few years ago, I was out for lunch with a banker whom I will call Neal. Neal was a commercial account manager at a large Canadian bank. As I always did at such meetings, I asked Neal, “How can I help you?” (For those of you who need a masterclass in networking, this is how you do it. You don’t tell referral sources how great you are, how your firm provides better quality services at lower prices and all of the usual boring stuff. You ask people, “How can I help you?”)
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November 15, 2024
Regulatory discrimination is authorized | Sara Blake
The Supreme Court of Canada has confirmed that a regulation may discriminate among regulated entities for regulatory purposes: TransAlta Generation Partnership v. Alberta, 2024 SCC 37.
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November 14, 2024
Nancy Bélanger reappointed as commissioner of lobbying
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced the reappointment of Nancy Bélanger as the commissioner of lobbying, effective Dec. 30, 2024, a Nov. 13 news release announced.
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November 14, 2024
Removal of untranslated English decisions on website won’t end novel lawsuit against SCC: plaintiff
The Supreme Court of Canada’s removal of thousands of pre-1970 (mostly unilingual-English) judgments from its website won’t end an unprecedented Federal Court lawsuit that aims to compel the top court’s registry to fix alleged violations of the Official Languages Act by translating the court’s unilingual decisions into the other official language, says the plaintiff language rights group Droits collectifs Québec.
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November 14, 2024
Judicial review of a regulation | Sara Blake
The Supreme Court has confirmed the established scope of review of the validity of regulations: Auer v. Auer, [2024] S.C.J. No. 36. First, it has confirmed that regulations are reviewable only if they are inconsistent with their enabling statute or the Constitution. Second, the court confirmed that regulations are not reviewable as to whether, as a matter of policy, they are necessary, wise or effective in practice.
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November 14, 2024
Law Society of Alberta takes a trip back to the future with its client ID rules
Just like Marty McFly in the Back to the Future movies, the Law Society of Alberta (LSA) is taking a trip through time, and in this article I will describe the storyline from its innocuous start to its dramatic ending.
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November 13, 2024
CanLII sues AI-based legal research platform for alleged data scraping and copyright violations
The Canadian Legal Information Institute (CanLII) has filed a lawsuit against a company behind an AI chatbot over allegations it bulk downloaded over 3.5 million records from CanLII’s website in violation of its terms of service and its copyright in the relevant works.