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…
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.
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 former attorney general in Ontario, Canada, Michael Bryant, has been charged with criminal negligence causing death and dangerous operation of a motor vehicle causing death after a fatal auto…
Seven employees of McCarthy Tétrault spent more than five hours in an express elevator yesterday on one of the hottest days of the year, but no one at the well-known…
As stunning layoffs have been made at United States and London-based law firms in recent months, Canadian law firms—thanks to the relative stability of Canadian banks—have been much less likely…
A Canadian judge has found two producers, whose company brought to stage “Ragtime” and “Phantom of the Opera” guilty of participating in widespread accounting fraud.
A New York man who married his longtime same-sex partner in Canada last year is entitled to inherit his estate as his spouse, a New York probate judge has held…
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