February

When your only tool is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. Fortunately, CBA tools offer a great deal more diversity. Flu season is coming – why not check out our Pandemics and the Workplace toolkit?

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.

The Intervention Policy Review Committee tabled its report in June and the CBA Board has approved an interim policy based on its recommendations which will serve until Council gets a chance to officially adopt it in February. Read on for details of what’s changed.

The Young Lawyers Forum has been busy. Have a look to see what we’ve been up to, and find out how you can get involved.

The CBA congratulated and welcomed Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada Jody Wilson-Raybould to their new roles

The Annual Mid-Winter Meeting of Council of the Canadian Bar Association will be held in Ottawa, Ontario at the Fairmont Château Laurier, February 20 - 21, 2016.

Spotlight on: Anatomy of a deal

The deadline for the access to justice benchmarks survey has been extended to the end of October to allow for more feedback on what can be done to improve the legal aid system in Canada.

The CBA has launched a new toolkit on preventive legal health to help lawyers develop the skills of preventive lawyering. A little preventive legal health can keep small legal issues from growing into huge legal problems.