American lawyers don’t seem to worry too much about the finer points of civility, and they have the right idea, says the author of the book Lawyers Gone Bad.
A Toronto lawyer who represents a Canadian engineer alleging he was wrongly accused of terrorism and sent to Syria for torture is pursuing a separate but related suit that claims…
A criminal case was dropped today against a former Ontario attorney general who was initially charged with criminal negligence after a violent traffic confrontation ended in the death of a…
A retired Canadian law professor is blasting law schools for pursuing a social justice agenda, deriding law students as illiterate and taking aim at high tuition fees.
An attorney for the Torys law firm calls it an “inadvertent omission.” Counsel for a lawyer disciplinary authority calls it “a massive foul-up,” reports the Toronto Star.
A Canadian lawyer who arrived in Haiti on Tuesday for a business meeting survived the devastating earthquake there later that day and has returned safely home to Ottawa.
Cutting-edge electronic surveillance is being credited for the arrest of a second major drug figure in Mexico in less than a month, marking a potential new direction in a bloody…
Years ago, when he worked at Sullivan & Cromwell’s offices on Wall Street as a corporate associate during the 1990s, Gil Cornblum regularly conducted what he called “spelunking” raids there…
A total of 303 people have been arrested over the past two days in coordinated raids in 19 states and large amounts of drugs and cash have been seized concerning…
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