342 ABA Journal Canada articles.
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
A massive heist of some $18 million worth of Canadian maple syrup, eventually resulting in more than two dozen arrests, put Quebec’s maple syrup cartel in the headlines in 2012.
…Aug 20, 2015 4:05 PM CDT
A growing international labor and employment boutique based in the U.S. has opened its first office in Canada.
Littler Mendelson announced the new Toronto office Tuesday, saying that it will…
Aug 5, 2015 4:40 PM CDT
A man accused of sending letter bombs to two Canadian law offices and an auto repair shop where his ex-wife works is having a hard time finding an attorney to…
Jul 10, 2015 1:05 PM CDT
A well-known Bay Street law firm has been ordered to pay 45 million in Canadian dollars to 181 former car dealers it represented in restructuring negotiations with General Motors of…
Jul 9, 2015 1:15 PM CDT
Two well-known law firms in Canada and the United Kingdom have agreed to a merger of equals, and are already looking ahead to further international expansion in upcoming years.
The…
Jul 8, 2015 1:45 PM CDT
A Canadian lawyer who was hospitalized after being seriously injured Friday in a package-bomb blast at her Winnipeg law office plans to return to practice as soon as possible.
Maria…
Jul 7, 2015 3:55 PM CDT
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