June

Giancarlo Mignardi, a third-year JD student at Queen’s University, is the winner of the 2019 Paul Smith Memorial Award in the CBA’s Administrative Law section.

The Canadian Bar Association welcomes today’s announcement of federal legal aid funding for refugees.

Vivene Salmon, LL.B. 2009, has become the first person of colour to be named President of the Canadian Bar Association. She will officially take over the role in September 2019.

Vivene Salmon, the incoming president of the Canadian Bar Association (CBA), is a young lawyer and the first racialized person to take on the role. She understands the impact a recession...

Out with the Old, in with the New - July 2019 Blast Email

CBA International Initiatives is seeking volunteers to be trainers for the Supporting Inclusive Resource Development in East Africa (SIRD) Advocates Training Program. This training program aims to equip a core group of lawyers in East Africa with knowledge and skills in natural resource management.

The Supporting Inclusive Resource Development in East Africa (SIRD) project is looking to place three recent law graduates/junior lawyers in volunteer research positions for the month of September. The placements will occur in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.

The Canadian Bar Association and CBA-Quebec welcome the nomination of Nicholas Kasirer, a longtime member of the Association, to the Supreme Court of Canada.

Lawyers, better than anyone, know that when you want to get a message across in a way that makes people pay attention, you write a letter.

Tom Laughlin is the CBA Board Member for P.E.I., and Chair of the Board’s Policy Committee.