Pulse
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January 20, 2025
Saskatchewan regulator lists upcoming events on estates, AI, family law
The Law Society of Saskatchewan has published a roundup of upcoming events — one being mediation training sessions for lawyers and another being the Canadian Bar Association Saskatchewan’s mid-winter conference.
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January 20, 2025
Alberta law society announces improvements to CPD tool
In response to lawyer feedback, the Law Society of Alberta (LSA) has made further enhancements to its continuing professional development (CPD) tool.
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January 20, 2025
Gowling WLG appoints new leader of patent group in Canada
Christopher Brown has been appointed national leader of Gowling WLG’s patent group in Canada succeeding John Harris, the firm announced.
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January 20, 2025
Partnership: Evaluate firm’s decision-making process before accepting | Murray Gottheil
In this part of my ongoing series on partnerships in legal firms, I would invite you to live in an imaginary world where you respect and appreciate all of your partners, each of them a phenomenally talented lawyer, who is also productive, respectful, collaborative, ethical, and has an amazing client base. And they all love you too.
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January 17, 2025
Tavares v. CRA: Star forward defends his net | Marcel Strigberger
He shoots he scores! Or at least he’s giving it a shot. I am talking not hockey, but income tax.
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January 17, 2025
Federal Court of Appeal discourages Tax Court from sending out draft judgments to parties
Draft decisions are best kept behind closed court doors, the Federal Court of Appeal has indicated in a decision admonishing the Tax Court of Canada for sending out a draft copy of a decision for review by the parties involved. “We wish to comment on the practice the Tax Court followed here,” Justice David Stratas wrote for the three-judge panel in a recent decision in Doostyar v. Canada 2025 FCA 6.
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January 17, 2025
New Provincial Court justice for Newfoundland
Andrew O. Brown has been appointed to the Provincial Court in Clarenville, Nfld. The announcement was made by the province's Minister of Justice and Public Safety Bernard Davis.
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January 16, 2025
New intellectual property senior counsel for DLA Piper
Gunars Gaikis has joined the Toronto office of DLA Piper (Canada) LLP as senior counsel in the intellectual property and technology group.
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January 16, 2025
Blakes partner roster expands
Blakes has named Allan Morgan, Rodney Perkins, Brittany Shamess, Christina Sutcliffe, Daniel Szirmak and Annika Wang as new partners.
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January 15, 2025
Canada prepares for migrant surge from U.S. in response to Trump’s deportation threat
Ottawa says that it is prepared for a possible surge of migrants and asylum claimants if and when incoming U.S. president Donald Trump implements his mass deportation pledge — but federal officials did not say how many people they anticipate might arrive at the Canada-U.S. border.