February

Spotlight on tools you can use.

Legal aid provides access to justice for Canadians who cannot afford to pay for legal services. The CBA has a long history of unwavering support for a legal aid system for essential criminal matters.

Do you know someone who deserves recognition? Send in your nomination today!

Alex Bogach, a third-year student at Queen’s University Faculty of Law is this year’s winner of the Real Property Section’s essay competition with his paper titled A Place in Common Space: State Property Ownership and Common Spaces in Canada.

The Canadian Bar Association’s Legal Aid Liaison Committee is pleased to announce Jeannette Savoie, a staff lawyer with the Legal Services Board in the Northwest Territories, as a recipient of the Legal Aid Leader Award.

The latest issue of Canadian International Lawyer is online. Editor Noemi Gal-Or says this issue explores three themes that have received a lot of attention recently: migration, corruption and the recognition of foreign judgments.

The CBA offers suggestions to Minister Mihychuk on operation and enforcement of the Temporary Foreign Workers Program.

“Where are the women?” the keynote speaker at last year’s IP Day luncheon asked. This year the Intellectual Property Section tried to answer that question with a Diversity Breakfast aimed at sharing stories and getting people talking about diversity. Read on for an account of the event by Mala Joshi and Kamleh Nicola.

What impact does legal process outsourcing have on your business? Why do you do it – or not? These are the kinds of questions a study launched by the CBA, Taran Virtual Associates and CorbinPartners will be trying to answer, with your help. The deadline has been extended to June 30.

Trust and respect – in law firms as in life, when you have these things in a relationship, everything works better. As part of a Solutions Series session, the CBA surveyed law firm support staff to see what they needed from the lawyers they work with to do their jobs most efficiently. Read on for a brief analysis of the results.