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The Governance & Equity Committee has initiated the process to recruit, review, and recommend Indigenous and Equity-Deserving candidates for appointment to the national Board next year, under section 33.1 of the Bylaws.

The Class Actions Law Section is pleased to announce Celeste Poltak, Partner of the Koskie Minsky LLP, as the recipient of the 2024 OBA Award for Excellence in Class Actions.

Colin Lachance will work with lawyers to integrate AI into profession

The Licence Appeal Tribunal (LAT) will be moving to the Sensitive Content Management (SCM) service which is now available. This is to ensure continued service for LAT’s stakeholders as EATS will be decommissioned effective March 1, 2024. Lawyers have the option to begin using SCM immediately. The Enterprise Attachment Transfer Service (EATS) will be decommissioned, effective March 1, 2024.

On this International Day of Persons with Disabilities, we spotlight the unique challenges faced by many lawyers. The demanding nature of our work, coupled with personal struggles, underscores the critical need for a supportive community.

The Ontario Class Action Bench-Bar Liaison Committee is calling for nominations for up to four members of the bar to join the Committee for a two-year term, beginning January 2024.

TORONTO – The Ontario Bar Association (OBA) is launching a first-of-its-kind Peer Support Network for Lawyers Living with Disabilities, providing a robust complement of constructive resources, tools and engagement opportunities for lawyers.

The Ontario Bar Association (OBA) is pleased to announce the winners of this year’s Association Awards. The recipients will be honoured at the OBA Awards Gala on May 31 in Toronto. 

Mante Molepo has been named the 2022-23 Ontario Bar Association Innovator in Residence and will lead the association’s new career accelerator for Indigenous and racialized lawyers in emerging areas of law.

This October, as we celebrate the 30th Anniversary of Women’s History Month – with the theme “She Did, So Now I Can” – we asked the trailblazers who are making OBA history as members of our Board’s very first all-female officers team about who inspires them today, and how they are leading inclusively and working to advance gender equality in the legal profession.