Sentences with phrase «canadian legal trends»

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Clearly, Slaw successfully taps into modern legal practice trends, albeit with a primary focus on Canadian practice but additionally with much broader application.

The trend is backed up by a survey of 150 Canadian lawyers conducted recently by Robert Half Legal where one third, or 37 per cent of respondents indicated they'd observed an increase in lawsuits due to pictures or information contained in social media, or on mobile devices.

Because these judicial trends are of global import and are being resolved using similar legal approaches in various courts of law in Europe and North America, our aim in this article is to reflect broadly upon the worries that arise in these cases, specifically within their Canadian context but, also, as instances of a larger global privacy trend: a diminishing of informational privacy by way of said shrinking privacy expectations.

A web - based legal analytics tool that helps lawyers and self - represented litigants identify trends in historical Canadian legal data.

And Emma Durand - Wood of web strategy outfit Stem Legal says she's seen a similar trend among Canadian lawyers looking for a share of that growing audience.

In a similar trend towards fostering ideas and innovation, the Canadian Bar Association wants to hear your ideas about how we can better train lawyers, both at the law school level and in their lifelong careers, to meet the needs of a changing legal landscape.

Dealing with global issues is a growing challenge, whether due to the multinational footprint of their organizations, the multi-jurisdictional nature of their commercial relationships, and / or because global legal trends are or are likely to influence Canadian practices.

Indeed, in a 2017 review of legal trends in Canadian private M&A, Thomson Reuters has reported that non-competition covenants were found in 52 % of the closing conditions of share acquisition transactions.

What I mean by a legal innovation and competitiveness think - tank is a body that would take a serious look at what law firms are doing — and not doing; gathering and analyzing useful data on the Canadian legal marketplace to determine trends and offer new ideas based on these trends; something akin to what Beaton Consulting is doing in Australia or Hildebrandt is doing in the US.

The only one of its kind in Toronto, Courtroom 807 at 393 University Avenue is outfitted for «electronic» trials, a trend many in the legal community see as essential to the evolution of the Canadian justice system.

The report provides the Canadian business community with deeper insight into the key trends and regulatory changes that will have legal implications in the year ahead.

As Canada marked its 150th birthday last year, a new report by Thomson Reuters and Acritas — the 2018 State of Canadian Corporate Law Departments — takes a look back at trends in the Canadian corporate and legal industry over the past five years in order to better understand how the modern legal department has evolved.

As mentioned early in this piece, «The Changing face of the legal profession» (LawPro Magazine, Winter 2007), a Canadian study suggests that the trend of lawyers deferring retirement is more prevalent in small firms, and in non-urban areas, with the trend being «particularly apparent in the personal legal services fields (real estate, family law, wills, criminal law).»

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Earlier this fall, I gave a presentation to a Canadian law society that described the key trends in the current legal marketplace and forecast where they're likely to lead in future.