Slaw

Slaw

A blog by and for the legal research and IT community in Canada. The name "Slaw" was chosen in deference to Salon and Slate and because "there's the notion that a cooperative weblog with many contributors is bound to consist of a great many (nutritious) small pieces in rather a jumble."

Author: This is a group blog, with Simon Fodden listed as the administrator. "Core contributors," all from Canada, include Steve Matthews, who authors Vancouver Law Librarian Blog and VLLB Linkblog and created Florida Lawyers Blog Watch and Law Firm Web Strategy; Jordan Furlong, who also authors Law21; Agnese Caruso, a research specialist at Tax Research Centre, PwC Management Services, in Toronto; David Cheifetz practices at Bennett Best Burn in Toronto; Simon Chester is a partner at Heenan Blaikie in Toronto; Connie Crosby is a consultant at Crosby Group Consulting in Toronto and also authors Connie Crosby and Connie Crosby Links; Elizabeth Ellis is a partner at Torys in Toronto; Dominic Jaar is counsel at Beaudin Legault, Bell Canada's legal department in Montréal; Mark Lewis is reference/information technology librarian at the Sir James Dunn Law Library, Dalhousie University; Michael Lines is faculty and student services librarian at the Diana M. Priestly Law Library at the University of Victoria; Michel-Adrien Sheppard is reference librarian at the Supreme Court of Canada in Ottawa, Ontario and also authors Library Boy; Ted Tjaden is director of knowledge management at McMillan Binch Mendelsohn in Toronto; and Evan VanDyk is a law clerk at the Ontario Court of Appeal in Toronto.

Blawg Related Categories: Law Libraries • Law Practice Management • Legal Technology • International • North America • Canada • Dalhousie Law School • University of Victoria • Consultant • Librarian • Partner • Solo / Small Firm

Recent Posts from Slaw


  • Fore!

    Notwithstanding the fine weather that many parts of the country are experiencing as November moves towards December, late November in Canada is usually a dark time for those of us with the golf bug. Into…

  • The Friday Fillip 2

    As a counterpart to Simon’s post below on applying modern technology to 16th century information, I thought I would offer Pranav Mistry’s SixthSense Technology described as “a wearable gestural interface that augments the physical world…

  • The Friday Fillip

    One of the glories of the internet and the digital era is their ability to bring the past to us in a lively fashion. And the latest gift from the ages is the Shakespeare Quartos…

  • Clearing the Ice

    As good as November has been to us here in Toronto, things will inevitably take a turn for the worse (I don’t ski), usually in the forms of snow and ice. And that, in turn,…

  • Interview with Cory Doctorow

    The Globe and Mail had an interview with author Cory Doctorow in the weekend edition. After talking to an audience in Toronto on the topic of “How to destroy the book”, he sat down to…

  • ‘Unfriend’ Selected as Oxford Dictionary Word of the Year

    The New Oxford American Dictionary has chosen the word ‘unfriend’ as its 2009 Word of the Year: “unfriend – verb – To remove someone as a ‘friend’ on a social networking site such as Facebook.…

  • Slaw Gets a Mention in Lexpert

    I’m pleased to say that Slaw got a great mention in a recent piece in Lexpert Magazine’s Globe and Mail web articles, “Law Firms Test Potential for Social Media,” by Marzena Czarnecka. Yours truly made…

  • Twits, Tweets and the Political World

    While the BBC reported this weekend on Pods and Blogs on the extraordinary growth of Tweetminster, the place where real life and politics tweet, in Ottawa it’s a different story. NDP member Charlie Angus wants…

  • Between the Eyes…

    ♫ To face the friends of Mr. Cairo .. From Chicago to Hong Kong Via Istanbul the Talking Tong Dirty rats thru’ prohibition Money flowed thru gangsterism Or Edward ‘G’ and all those guys Who…

  • Holiday Law Firm Challenge: Toronto Daily Bread Food Bank

    Each year at this time, the Toronto office of Blakes sends out a challenge to other Bay Street firms to organize food drives/fundraising on behalf of the Daily Bread Food Bank. Last year’s challenge raised…