April

Defense lawyer Donald Bayne talks about the need to educate the public and journalists on the justice system and the Rule of Law.

Disponible uniquement en anglais. En cours de traduction. That’s Don Bayne’s best advice for lawyers when facing a trial that’s likely to be tried in the court of public opinion. Bayne knows whereof he speaks – the partner at Bayne, Sellar, Boxall in Ottawa is most recently known for representing Senator Mike Duffy on fraud charges.

René Basque, of New Brunswick, talks about his priorities for his upcoming year as President of the Canadian Bar Association.

What are some of the reasons people might not get legal help? Cost is the obvious reason. But according to Sarah McCoubrey, a strategist on access to justice issues, people with legal needs often point to two other reasons. They’ll say they’re too intimidated or afraid to ask for help. And that dealing with lawyers and legal documents is too confusing.

L’Association du Barreau canadien (ABC) et l’American Bar Association (ABA) ont conclu une entente de réciprocité afin d’encourager l’adhésion à titre de membre associé.

René J. Basque, c.r., associé du cabinet de Moncton Actus Law Droit, devient le président de l’Association du Barreau canadien (l’ABC) à la clôture de la Conférence juridique de l’ABC 2016, le 14 août, pour un mandat d’une durée d’un an, faisant suite à celui de Janet Fuhrer d’Ottawa.

Social isolation is today’s most pressing public health issue, says author and psychologist Susan Pinker.

Psychologist Susan Pinker was one of the keynote speakers at the CLC in Ottawa today. CBA National caught up with Pinker author of The Sexual Paradox and The Village Effect: How Face-to-Face Contact Can Make Us Healthier, to ask her about the importance, in the digital age, of human contact between lawyers and their clients and colleagues.

What do your clients think about you? The answer to that question, Sandra Goodwin might say, referring to an old Saturday Night Life bit, will be found in the Journal of Duh. That is, it’s obvious – ask them.

It happens every day – you sit down to work on an important task and constant interruptions keep you from finishing it: people drop by, the phone rings, notifications keep popping up in the lower right-hand corner of the screen telling you you have new email that looks far more urgent than whatever you’re working on.