20 mai

Slaw http://www.slaw.ca/

• 15:00
  Avoid the Unintentional Expansion of Retainers - Dan Pinnington Slaw
  Here's the scenario: A lawyer is retained to assist a client with a tort claim and an accident benefits claim. The client, meanwhile, has been informed that the long-term disability (LTD) benefits provided by her employer's group plan are about to be terminated. In an effort to forestall the (...) -- Reading: Recommended
• 12:00
  Monday's Mix - Administrator Slaw
  -- Monday’s Mix

19 mai

Slaw http://www.slaw.ca/

• 18:20
  2013 LawTechCamp - Omar Ha-Redeye Slaw
  Technology is the game-changer in the legal field, and yet most lawyers are not very technologically inclined. LawTechCamp seeks to change that, bringing together non-lawyers from the tech sector and the lawyers who are eager to identify the opportunities of the future. Now in it's third (...) -- Education & Training: CLE/PD, Practice of Law: Future of Practice
• 12:00
  Summaries Sunday: Maritime Law Book - Administrator Slaw
  -- Summaries Sunday

17 mai

Slaw http://www.slaw.ca/

• 13:00
  Virtual Conference Going: A Mixed Blessing - Judith Gaskell Slaw
  -- Legal Information
• 13:00
  Friday Fillip: I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream - Simon Fodden Slaw
  For fun, most of the time — as anyone who lives near a school playground will know. That blast of raw sound, bigger than a shout, less prissy than a sung note, pours energy out of us in a way that demands the world take notice. And it can feel good, as all that pent up breath sweeps out (...) -- The Friday Fillip

16 mai

Slaw http://www.slaw.ca/

• 13:00
  The Perfect Storm of Open Access - John Willinsky Slaw
  A colleague writes of what seems like the perfect storm of open access hitting the students with whom she works… My students and I publish in the journal Evolution: Education and Outreach published by Springer. Great outlet for our work. But, they just went open access (good).The cost to (...) -- Legal Publishing
• 18:29
  Justice Canada 2013 Victims of Crime Research Digest - Michel-Adrien Sheppard Slaw
  -- Justice Issues
• 16:39
  "Keeping Them Honest" - Mitch Kowalski Slaw
  I have a habit of kicking the hornets' nest when it comes to airing my views on legal services and the legal profession. So let me give it another go. I believe that legal services can be delivered in a more efficient, convenient and cost-effective manner than they're currently being (...) -- Justice Issues, Miscellaneous, Practice of Law, Practice of Law: Practice Management
• 15:00
  Bills to Enact Pooled Registered Pension Plans - Yosie Saint-Cyr Slaw
  As anticipated, since the federal Pooled Registered Pension Plans Act came into force December 14, 2012, several provinces have followed suit and tabled legislation to implement the new kind of portable deferred income plan, which is designed to provide retirement income to workers and (...) -- Substantive Law, Substantive Law: Legislation, employer-sponsored retirement pension plan, Pooled Registered Pension Plans, portable deferred income plan, Retirement, Voluntary Retirement Savings Plan
• 13:00
  Thursday Thinkpiece: Hunter on the International Criminal Court Case Matrix - Administrator Slaw
  Each Thursday we present a significant excerpt, usually from a recently published book or journal article. In every case the proper permissions have been obtained. If you are a publisher who would like to participate in this feature, please let us know via the site's contact form. (...) -- Thursday Thinkpiece

15 mai

Slaw http://www.slaw.ca/

• 18:00
  As Goes Access to Law School, So Goes Access to Justice – Part I - Jamie Maclaren Slaw
  [The memosphere strikes again! Between submission and publication of this column, Omar Ha-Redeye posted a very informed and insightful Slaw entry entitled, "Access to Justice Starts With Legal Tuition". Playing Bell to my Meucci (that reads rather strangely), Omar covers much of the same (...) -- Justice Issues
• 16:01
  Better [And/or] Faster [And/or] Cheaper - CBA Futures Slaw
  Western Union. IBM. Kodak. All are examples of well-established, successful businesses that failed to seize perfect opportunities to evolve to meet changing market conditions and paid the price. How much bigger would Western Union have been if it had bought the patent for the telephone when (...) -- Practice of Law, Practice of Law: Future of Practice, Practice of Law: Marketing, Practice of Law: Practice Management
• 15:30
  Canaries in a Coal Mine? - Karen Dyck Slaw
  Much is made about women leaving the practice of law. For the most part, I find the concerns somewhat overstated, and the emphasis misplaced on gender issues when this is much more likely a signal that what firms are doing isn't working for a significant proportion of the profession. (A notable (...) -- Practice of Law, Practice of Law: Future of Practice, women lawyers
• 15:20
  3D Printer Revolution - David Canton Slaw
  -- Technology
• 13:00
  Patentable Subject Matter – New Notices From Canadian Patent Office, Anticipated Issues for the Court? - Paula Bremner Slaw
  The Canadian Intellectual Property Office (“CIPO”) has recently published two notices for patent examiners relating to patent interpretation[i], and in particular computer-related/business method type patents. These notices were released following a 2011 Federal Court of Appeal (...) -- Intellectual Property
• 12:00
  Wednesday: What's Hot on CanLII - Administrator Slaw
  -- Wednesday: What's Hot on CanLII
• 09:59
  Verifying That Emails Are Received - John Gregory Slaw
  When does the law require you to follow up an email to see if it was received? Is that a matter of prudence only, i.e. if you really have to know, you had better follow up? Are you liable for negligence for not following up, in important cases, or all cases, if the message was not received? A (...) -- Technology: Internet, ulc_ecomm_list