I will no longer have to read «we're sorry» when I click on ethics and legal ethics in
the slaw columns.
Looking back over the past couple of years of
Slaw columns on the topic, contributions seem to be reduced in number.
Beyond that, the potential for ABSs to improve access to justice is being put forward as a key reason for allowing them, as can be seen in
Slaw columns of Malcolm Mercer and in the work of the Law Society of Upper Canada's Working Group on ABSs that he co-chairs.
Beyond that, the potential for ABSs to improve access to justice is being put forward as a key reason for allowing them, as can be seen in
Slaw columns of... [more]
From co-author Nelson: Normally, I write
SLAW columns with Sensei VP John Simek, but in light of the recent and horrific disasters experienced by American law firms, I teamed up with Jim Calloway, Director of Management Assistance Program at Oklahoma Bar Association, to offer these disaster recovery tips.
My uOttawa colleague Professor Joanne St. Lewis made the strong case for moving forward on the recommendations in
her Slaw column here.
As Malcolm Mercer has argued in his recent
Slaw column: «If we can not find ways to effectively have regulated lawyers, paralegals or alternative providers deliver legal services in some areas, there can be no justification for prohibiting anyone but licensees from servicing those areas.»
Steve's latest
Slaw column, Death of Blogging?
If your law firm website or blog uses WordPress as its content management system, please take a look at my latest
Slaw column on beefing up security measures around the administration login area.
The problem, however, as Anne Vespry cogently argued on our legal ethics listserv (and «Bob Smith» also noted in comments on Omar Ha - Redeye's
SLAW column), is that it is not clear that there is a legal basis for claiming that Ontario lawyers have a duty to promote equality, diversity and inclusion understood as a requirement to take active steps toward making the profession more equal, diverse and inclusive.
My own next
Slaw column entitled «Ever Cuddled an Aardvark?
For a possible accessible platform designed to work in the UNCITRAL process, see
my Slaw column on the topic.
Sometimes it is hard to choose which topic to focus on for
my Slaw column.
My previous
Slaw column looked at the question of whether lawyers are «hijacking» mediation and arbitration.
After reading an earlier version of this post, my colleague Sarah Sutherland wrote «My only criticism of
your Slaw column is that I think you miss acknowledging the simple things — applying rules to straightforward issues, automated compilation of draft documents, etc. that AI will make a big difference on.
Since I wrote it, it bears some resemblance to my original
Slaw column, above, though it made a recommendation.
It's timely for me to exchange views on these matters, as I shortly have
a Slaw column on «An Exciting Time for Legal and Professional Publishing», which ponders on the innovations around, the directions of the giants and the opportunities of one kind and another of the small ones.
This is nice for Slaw, because Colin Galinski is quoted extensively, and
his Slaw column that touches on the topic is mentioned.
Between the two votes, I penned
a Slaw column entitled TWU Law and the New Segregation.
In my first
SLAW column, I reported on Richard Susskind's prediction that the legal profession is undergoing profound change.
I'm about to submit
a Slaw column entitled «CDs and DVDs Going in the Way of Loose - leaf Services».
Now I can go check off the «Write
my SLAW Column» item.
I've to some extent tried to pick up on the theme of pretend or non-engagement in my next
Slaw column, being published on September 11 and entitled «Legal and Professional Publishing: Has it Become Desperately Dull?»
In fact, I've sought to pick up the theme of lack of customer engagement and its consequences in my next
Slaw column, due to be published on September 11, entitled «Legal and Professional Publishing: Has it Become Desperately Dull?»
And Sharon Nelson and John Simek's
Slaw column in March of this year also canvassed the U.S. profession's reluctance, and drew some comments.
I thoroughly enjoyed Susan Munro's recent
Slaw column «Show me the Money» in which she forcefully and unabashedly made the case for the value of high - quality legal editorial work.
(Here's my longer
Slaw column on that topic) If you don't want to place any data in the cloud, you can buy a remote access app like LogMeIn Ignition that will connect securely to your computer.
Great minds, etc., you have innocently and inadvertently predicted the opening of my next
Slaw column, currently in draft:
This being my first
Slaw column, it would seem to be a good place to reflect on where I've been and what I use now.
Just as Allison Wolf shoots some holes in the myth of work - life balance in her recent
Slaw column «The Tyranny of Performance,» the Canadian Bar Association has launched a new Work - Life Balance Resource Centre in the CBA PracticeLink section of their website.
Bradley, you're producing here in this thread alone the equivalent of
a Slaw column a day, so I hesitate to ask you to keep at it.
But as Gary Rodrigues observed in
a Slaw column over four years ago, even the much vaunted curation role associated with publishing case law reporters had mostly separated from reality as the books were increasingly compilations of lesser cases selected mostly for their ability to fill pages in a targeted print run.
It's the sort of place and people I was thinking of when drafting what I hope will be my next
Slaw column, provisionally entitled «The Good Guys of Legal and Professional Publishing».
I'm reading Patrick McKenna's new
Slaw column offering advice to the newly minted law firm support professional.
I hope my next
Slaw column, «Do you want to know a secret» explores the issue further by discussing the question of loss of employee loyalty.
In my last
SLAW column I commented on the Volkswagen scandal and the classic ethics question: where were the lawyers?
In my next
Slaw column, presently in draft, I could not help using the much overused expression «a solution in search of a problem»
My November 2012
Slaw column «IT Partners» noted the fact that non-traditional approaches to providing legal services are gaining momentum.
In my next
Slaw column, presently only in draft, I suggest that especially in an era of global political gloom, one needs to be grateful for the cleverness of the best lawyers and the published information and guidance that underpins them, to encourage the supremacy of law.
I commented on the decision in a previous
Slaw column.)
Or, as Mark Hunter commented in
his Slaw column last week: «ever notice that people do business with people they like?»
Not exact matches
Mainly because there is already a legal information
column on
Slaw and I wanted to keep talking about «true» law school issues.
My second Web Law Connected
column has just been posted over
Slaw.
The February edition of my Web Law Connected
column is now posted over on
Slaw.
Many, if not most of its blog post categories and range of
columns are consistent with my extended focus of interest and I hope to be able to look to many
Slaw contributors and readers for articles and advice that will help ensure that Modern Legal Practice (the journal) continues to grow in influence and popularity.
I have a new article on
Slaw this morning for my Web Law Connected
column.
In his recent
column on
Slaw entitled Funding the LIIs, Sean Hocking wrote of the challenges faced by BAILII, the successes of AustLII and, to the extent information was available, the various funding models pursued by other legal information institutes.
When Delicious got sold, it broke the right -
column feature called
Slaw Linkblog, where a number of... [more]
The argument (mentioned in
columns by Profs Benykhlef and Vermeys in their
Slaw ODR
columns t00) is that there is no seriously available judicial remedy, so waiving one's «rights» to such a remedy is no serious sacrifice, and one may get from that act a usable ODR system.
May we draw your attention to the fact that
Slaw book reviews are now published as
columns.