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Hanging your Shingle as a Newly Minted Attorney: Five Lessons Learned in my First Year of Sole Practice

  • September 30, 2020
  • Rocco G. Scocco

Rocco G. Scocco offers readers his personal “Top Five Lessons” learned in his first year of sole practice as a freshly minted lawyer. If you are seeking advice about whether sole practice is right for you, the only ones who can give that advice are other lawyers who have done it themselves. Most importantly, the only person who can know if it is the right choice is you.

Sole, Small Firm and General Practice, Student Forum
Virtual Hearings – Arbitrators’ Top Tips and Trends

Virtual Hearings – Arbitrators’ Top Tips and Trends

  • September 30, 2020
  • James Jennings, Filion Wakely Thorup Angeletti LLP

With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the labour and employment bar was forced to rapidly adapt to the world of virtual law practice. Seven months into the pandemic, Arbitrators Paula Knopf, Elaine Newman, Chris Albertyn and Robert Herman provide their insights on virtual hearings, their future post-pandemic, and tools that counsel can use to make the hearing process more efficient.

Labour and Employment Law, Student Forum

Welcome from the Chair and Vice-Chair

  • September 29, 2020
  • Nicola Simmons and J. Andrew Sprague

A welcome message from the Chair and Vice-Chair of the CCLHR section, providing an overview of the section's anticipated activities for the upcoming year.

Constitutional, Civil Liberties and Human Rights Law, Student Forum

Lawyers as Business People

  • September 29, 2020
  • Daniel Fridmar, Fridmar Professional Corporation

With time, every lawyer arrives at the conclusion that knowing the law alone is not enough to manage a successful law practice. Inherently, law is a business just like any other – there are employees, supply chains, reputational decisions, and much more. Accordingly, here are a few important features and tips for lawyers to internalize in becoming successful business people.

Law Practice Management, Student Forum

A Message from the Chair: 2020/2021

  • September 29, 2020
  • Rachel Sachs, Chair, OBA Women Lawyers Forum

Rachel Sachs, Chair of the 2020/2021 OBA Women Lawyers Forum, welcomes the OBA WLF community.

Women Lawyers Forum, Student Forum

Court of Appeal Summaries (September 21 – September 25, 2020)

  • September 29, 2020
  • John Polyzogopoulos

Please find our summaries of the civil decisions of the Court of Appeal for Ontario for the week of September 21, 2020. There were only three substantive decisions. One of them involved Blaney McMurtry's very own Ryan Kniznik, who was substantially successful in representing our client in Levin v. Levin, a family law appeal.

Civil Litigation, Student Forum
Meet the 2020/2021 WLF Executive: Richa Sandill, Daniela Pacheco, Barbara De Dios

Meet the 2020/2021 WLF Executive: Richa Sandill, Daniela Pacheco, Barbara De Dios

  • September 25, 2020
  • Barbara De Dios, Corporate Counsel, Canadian Dental Services Corporation

Over the next several months, we’ll introduce you to the members of our 2020/2021 OBA Women Lawyers Forum Section Executive. We look forward to connecting and building relationships with OBA WLF members, and looking forward to introducing ourselves to you. Here are the profiles of our first three WLF executive members.

Women Lawyers Forum, Student Forum
Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Reflections on the Life and Death of RBG

  • September 25, 2020
  • Nandi A. O. Deterville, Vice-Chair, OBA Women Lawyers Forum

Ruth Bader Ginsburg has been dubbed a trailblazer, a feminist icon, a beloved lawyer, justice, and leader, among many other superlatives, as reactions and reflections about her death have been published since the announcement of her death on Friday, September 18, 2020. Our very own OBA Women Lawyers Forum Vice-Chair has shared her reflections following these events, and includes some thoughts from follow executives.

Women Lawyers Forum, Student Forum