Slaw
A blawg 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
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The Law of Donair
Do we have a silly season here at Slaw? Earlier this week, when I saw that our intricate system of laws, rules and regulations had entered into hallowed territory, I knew I could finally, legitimately…
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New Ontario Law Faculties?
An article in yesterday’s The Globe and Mail “Ontario Schools Compete for Law Faculties” outlines the efforts of three Ontario universities in trying to set up the first Canadian law school in almost thirty years. New…
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Why I Won’t Be Getting An iPhone
From today’s Globe and Mail: …for $75 a month, Rogers provides 300 weekday voice minutes, 750 megabytes of data and 100 text messages. In the United States, a customer gets 450 weekday voice minutes, unlimited…
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Powerset bought by Microsoft
We’ve written a few times about powerset, the natural language search engine. When it brought its service public in May, there were rumours about it being purchased by one of the search giants. Those rumours…
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The Top 100 Law and Lawyer Blogs
From an American Association of Law Libraries Private Law Librarians listserv posting: The Criminal Justice Degrees Guide has a list of The Top 100 Law and Lawyers Blogs which provides a useful summary of the…
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Flash to be Searchable
Adobe is talking to Google and Yahoo. The plan is to make sites that use Adobe Flash searchable, because now search engines slip off the face of Flash sites as if they were glass. The…
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Happy Canada Day!
To our Canadian readers, colleagues, friends, and fellow Slaw-yers, have a terrific Canada Day! This beautiful photo of the Canadian flag is by Ian Muttoo and made available under Creative Commons.
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Today’s Twitter News
Lots of chirping about social networking tool Twitter today from various quarters. A few stories I am following: In What’s Twitter doing right now? Investors would like to know, Globe and Mail (July 1,…
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Moving Season? Reduce Your Chance of Being Scammed
Lots of people turn to classified ad websites such as Craigslist and Kijiji to find movers to help them with small moves. But, from the lists and lists of movers, how can you tell…
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The Hazards of Simple Filters
I’ve been getting a daily blast of legal-tech news from Lexology, having ticked the IP, IT etc. boxes and those for Canada, the U.S. and U.K. Today, there was a single item under the “Canada”…