A former president of the Canadian Bar Association has been an easy mark in recent years for savvy litigants in family law cases. If they wanted to prevent her from…
In a country already reeling from the effects of a brutal drug war, the abduction and murder of the 14-year-old son of a well-to-do Mexican industrialist is spurring national efforts…
A secret Canadian government report says a youth detained at Guantanamo Bay was deprived of sleep in an effort to make him more willing to talk during interrogations.
Lawyers increasingly are becoming like luxury goods to many would-be clients, an expensive article that they can’t afford or don’t want to make a priority.
A would-be partner’s suit against one of Canada’s top-tier law firms doesn’t just claim that McCarthy Tetrault discriminated against her because of her gender. It contends that…
Life as a summer associate may include editing footnotes, juggling multiple due dates, writing memos and, at least at one Toronto law firm, recording your experiences on a blog.
A 12-year-old in Quebec successfully sued her father to win permission to go on a three-day trip celebrating her final year in elementary school with classmates. But he is reportedly…
When David Battah showed up without a lawyer at the Superior Court of Justice in Canada last year, “it was as if he suddenly became invisible,” a newspaper recounts.
A Canadian citizen captured by the U.S. in Afghanistan at age 15 and held at the U.S. military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has a constitutional right to materials…
A Calgary attorney says he is entitled to $30 million from Merchant Law Group and the Canadian government for his work on one of the country’s biggest personal injury cases.
As other Canadian law firms grow—or even shrink—their international offices by merging, one “stealth mode” competitor has established a full-fledged New York City office entirely through individual lateral hiring.
Lawyers from Dorsey & Whitney will be scrambling to try to make up lost ground as the firm copes with an embarrassing situation in its small Toronto office, a Canadian…
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