December

The CBA's advocacy work will be the focus of CBA Influence, a newsletter we'll start publishing on the first Tuesday of every month, beginning in February.

The CBA is continuing to engage with the incoming cabinet ministers; we have one intervention going ahead in January and have applied in another.

Holiday party season is in full swing. Depending on your approach, professional obligation parties can be either a minefield or a great opportunity to network.

In a letter to the Presidents of the Ankara Bar Association and the Union of Turkish Bar Associations, the CBA extended its condolences and lent its voice in condemning the recent assassination of Tahir Elçi, President of the Diyarbakir Bar Association.

University of Windsor Law Professors Appointed Co-Editors of Canadian Bar Review

It's never too early to start planning to attend the Mid-Winter Meeting of Council being held this February in Ottawa. Registration is open, and there are prizes to be won!

The Children's Law Committee is putting together an innovative toolkit to help lawyers better understand children's rights. For the toolkit to be more helpful, they're asking you what you need to know.

Letters to the new prime minister and his cabinet; plus news about what's happening with interventions. As well, the CBA's response to requests to appear before expert panels on physician-assisted suicide, as the government prepares to comply with the Supreme Court's demand that it amend the Criminal Code to align with its decision in Carter.

One mid-size Canadian company wants to buy out another. What happens next? That's the question asked – and answered – by the sixth year of the CBA's Skilled Lawyer Series, which studies the anatomy of a deal from offer to close.

VANCOUVER – Patricia Lane, a managing partner at Taylor McCaffrey LLP in Winnipeg, has been named winner of the Canadian Bar Association’s (CBA) 2015 Cecilia Johnstone Award for outstanding work in the advancement of women in the legal profession.