Pulse
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May 17, 2024
Walrus tsk tsks and other travel alerts | Marcel Strigberger
“The time has come the walrus said to talk of many things. Of shoes, and ships, and sealing wax, of cabbages and kings.” Lewis Carroll —Through the Looking Glass.
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May 17, 2024
Ottawa announces construction of new federal courthouse complex in Montreal
The federal government has officially announced the construction of a new federal courthouse complex in the heart of Old Montreal.
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May 17, 2024
Work-life balance for the modern lawyer | Jacob Murad
There are many self-help articles and books for every profession to assist with work-life balance, a trait that has never been more essential to service professionals like lawyers. In today’s smartphone society emails are treated more like instant messages, requiring immediate responses than the letters of old. In addition, the computer is always on your person, whether driving, at home or at work; while this allows for remote capabilities, it becomes much harder to “switch off.”
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May 17, 2024
Artificial intelligence, legal profession, irrefutable function of reason | Natalia Bialkowska
To paraphrase Einstein, mankind invented artificial intelligence, but no mouse would ever construct a mousetrap for its own intellect. Admittedly limited in the use of its own potential, human brains offer a unique function of reason, something accepted in the ever-evolving world of philosophy since the first draft of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics.
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May 17, 2024
New partner joins Dentons Montreal
Sylvain Bélair has joined the Dentons Montreal office as a litigation and municipal planning partner, a news release from the firm announced.
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May 17, 2024
Women’s Law Association President’s Award winner announced
The Women’s Law Association of Ontario announced that the recipient of its 2024 President’s Award is Anna Matas, a partner at St. Lawrence Barristers, a news release from the firm announced.
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May 16, 2024
Canada sanctions ‘extremist Israeli settlers’ for violence against Palestinians in the West Bank
Ottawa has for the first time sanctioned “extremist Israeli settlers” with dealings and entry bans for “the grave breach of international peace and security posed by their violent and destabilizing actions against Palestinian civilians and their property in the West Bank.”
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May 16, 2024
New appointment to Ontario Court of Justice
Justice Cecile Applegate has been appointed as a new regional senior justice to the Ontario Court of Justice, a news release from the provincial government announced.
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May 16, 2024
Everything you wanted to know about lawyers’ gowns but were afraid to ask | Joseph Groia
Among the many subjects that new lawyers are not taught in law school or tested on during the bar exams is the history of and proper etiquette for lawyers’ gowns. In her autobiography Truth Be Told: My Journey Through Life and the Law, former chief justice Beverly McLachlin shares an anecdote about how when she travelled to Vancouver to be called to the B.C. bar, then bencher Mary Southin scolded another new call for wearing his tabs and waistcoat in the Hotel Georgia. “Young man, take your tabs off,” Miss Southin said. “You should know better. Tabs are not to be worn outside the courthouse.”
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May 16, 2024
3 new office managing partners at Bennett Jones
Bennett Jones announced new office managing partners, Preet Gill, Kwang Lim and Pascale Dionne-Bourassa, to its Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal offices, respectively.