348 ABA Journal Canada articles.
With Monday’s announcement of the completed merger of equivalent Canadian and United Kingdom law firms, the nearly 1,400-attorney combination is already looking for more merger prospects.
“It’s an exciting time…
Feb 22, 2016 10:10 AM CST
Apparently recalling a famous U.S. Supreme Court free-speech case, a Canadian judge on Friday found a man not guilty of criminal harassment charges concerning his Twitter posts.
“One man’s vulgarity…
Jan 22, 2016 2:55 PM CST
Was it criminal harassment, or merely, as the defendant’s lawyer contends, “an ugly political debate”?
That is the question a Canadian court must answer, as a verdict looms in what…
Jan 21, 2016 5:00 PM CST
When David Bush died last year, he provided for his wife, Peggy, in his will.
But it didn’t occur to the Victoria, British Columbia, couple that they needed an estate…
Jan 20, 2016 11:35 AM CST
Axiom has made a big move into Canada by purchasing the general counsel business of Cognition, one of the largest legal services providers in the Great White North.
Cognition, an…
Jan 14, 2016 3:15 PM CST
An international labor and employment boutique has opened its first office in Canada with a group of lawyers from Gowling Lafleur Henderson.
A news release by Ogletree, Deakins, Nash,…
Jan 13, 2016 4:30 PM CST
A fake letter on his law firm letterhead is being used to scam local businesses, a Canadian attorney says.
In addition to alerting police in St. John’s, attorney Bob Buckingham…
Dec 18, 2015 3:45 PM CST
No one else knew that Juror No. 6 had an unrequited crush on the prosecutor, it seems, before a guilty verdict was rendered earlier this year in a Toronto-area drug…
Dec 14, 2015 10:25 AM CST
Lawyers who work at Canadian law firm Axess Law have a proven ability to appeal to Wal-Mart shoppers.
The discount law firm has offices in 10 Wal-Marts in the Toronto…
Dec 8, 2015 8:46 AM CST
A single Canadian teenager made dozens of prank phone calls to police throughout the U.S., sending SWAT teams to hold innocent individuals at gunpoint at their homes as authorities investigated…
Nov 25, 2015 2:30 PM CST
A corporate partner at a Canadian BigLaw firm is safe after being held hostage at a luxury hotel in Bamako, the capital of Mali, on Friday.
Pierre Boivin of McCarthy…
Nov 23, 2015 11:50 AM CST
A U.S. citizen is seeking refugee status in Canada because he says he’s afraid of being killed by police in this country because he is black.
Kyle Lydell Canty, 30,…
Oct 27, 2015 4:30 PM CDT
Only a year after Allen & Overy became the first of London’s leading corporate law firms to open an office in Toronto, the so-called Magic Circle firm is closing the…
Sep 29, 2015 11:35 AM CDT
Served with process Tuesday in a family-law case, the respondent showed up at a Canadian courthouse Wednesday morning—holding a revving chainsaw, police say.
Sheriff’s officers at the family division of…
Sep 2, 2015 12:50 PM CDT
Two Canadian law firms filed a class action lawsuit in Windsor, Ontario, on Thursday over a much-publicized data dump this week by unknown hackers of information about users of the…
Aug 24, 2015 5:45 AM CDT
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