 New Resources
Eli Mina, MSc, PRP is a professional meeting chairman and public speaker, who runs a unique consulting and training practice in Vancouver. He has written The Complete Handbook of Business Meetings a “compilation of highly practical ideas on planning and facilitating meetings. It presents tools on managing controversies and strong personalities. It shows you how to balance the need for efficiency and forward movement with the need for inclusion, fairness and equality. Whether you are a novice or an experienced Chair or Board member, the book will assist you in deriving greater returns from the investment of money, effort and time in a meeting. It will help your group in reaching quality decisions, and in advancing your organization’s mandate.”
The Complete Handbook of Business Meetings, published by the American Management Association (AMACOM Books), will be available for purchase in June 2000. Advance orders of the book (ISBN 0814405606) can be placed by contacting McGraw Hill at 1.800.565.5758.
Errata
In the front-page article of the April 2000 issue of BarTalk, Ms. Dulcie McCallum was incorrectly identified as the former Child Ombudsman for British Columbia. Ms. McCallum was formerly the Ombudsman for the Province of British Columbia.
Sun Run’s Legal Division Rankings
Here is the Sun Run’s Legal Division (law firms only) rankings:
- Davis & Company
- Bull, Housser & Tupper
- Fasken Martineau DuMoulin
- Grant Thornton
- Baillie Law Corporation
- Morton & Company
- Swinton & Company
- Singleton Urquhart
- Lang Michener Lawrence & Shaw
- RBS Lawyers
- Whitelaw Twining
- Blake, Cassels & Graydon
- Guild, Yule & Company
- Borden Ladner Gervais
- Alexander, Holburn, Beaudoin & Lang
- Farris, Vaughan, Wills & Murphy
- MacAulay McColl
- Paine Edmonds
- Scott Bissett
- Lawson Lundell Lawson & McIntosh
- Schroeder & Company
- Davidson & Company
- Harris & Company
BC Courthouse Library Society: Internet Access
The BC Courthouse Library Society has installed six new computer stations in the Vancouver Courthouse Library, each hooked up to a printer, exclusively for accessing the Internet. While on the Internet, you may wish to read the BC Courthouse Library Society’s Annual Report 1999, at www.bccls.bc.ca.
Lawyers Assistance Program
The Lawyers Assistance Program Office is located at 415 - 1080 Mainland Street, Vancouver.
The Options for Lawyers workgroup meets the third Wednesday of each month at 12:15 pm at the LAP office.
The Women Lawyers Support Group meets the first Wednesday of every alternate month at 12:15 pm at the LAP office. Contact the LAP office for the next meeting date.
“Lawyers in AA” meetings occur every Thursday at 12:30 pm at the LAP office, and every Thursday at 5:45 pm in White Rock. For information on location, call 604.685.2171.
We have a lawyers’ Accountability Group which meets Thursday at 5:45 pm at the LAP office.
We have a Co-Dependents Anonymous Group which meets Monday at 5:30 pm at the LAP office.
These articles were published in the June 2000 issue of BarTalk. © 2000 The Canadian Bar Association. All rights reserved. |
