Articles 2023

Losing is a part of litigation. A big part. The adage goes that a lawyer who wins 100 per cent of their cases is a lawyer doing their other clients a disservice by not pushing the difficult matters to trial. Read on for insights from Jonah Waxman on the value of experience that comes from defeat.

In an interview with Tahir Khorasanee, Mr. Syed Zulfiqar Bukhari, an entrepreneur who is presently Special Assistant to the Prime Minister of Pakistan for Overseas Pakistanis & Human Resource Development and Chairman of the National Tourism Coordination Board (NTCB) and the Pakistan Tourism Board, brings attention to a humanitarian crisis in India that risks depriving more than a million people of statehood.

The transition from being an articling student to an associate is far from easy. This article contains a few time management strategies that helped the author make a successful transition.

Blake v. Blake is an important cautionary tale for all lawyers: read all of the articles that your firm publishes. A judge may make a factual inference that you know about the case your firm wrote about, especially if you practice in a specialized firm.

Case comment on the Ontario Court of Appeal’s recent decision in Reaction Distributing Inc. v. Algonquin Highlands (Township), 2019 ONCA 433.

There are four substantive cases this week.

It was a light, yet eventful week at the Court of Appeal for Ontario.