CBA enters Reciprocal Associate Membership Agreement with ABA August 14, 2016 The Canadian Bar Association (CBA) and American Bar Association (ABA) have entered into a reciprocal agreement to promote associate membership
Moncton lawyer René Basque is first Acadian to head Canadian Bar Association August 14, 2016 René J. Basque, Q.C., a partner in the Moncton law firm Actus Law Droit, becomes president of the Canadian Bar Association (CBA) at the close of the 2016 CBA Legal Conference in Ottawa on August 14.
Are your social networks all online? That’s bad news for your longevity August 13, 2016 Social isolation is today’s most pressing public health issue, says author and psychologist Susan Pinker.
Susan Pinker on the importance of communicating face to face August 13, 2016 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.
Polls suggest clients like being asked for feedback August 13, 2016 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.
Think multi-tasking is working for you? Think again August 13, 2016 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.
Moving on from the whine: Advanced negotiation skills August 13, 2016 Negotiation is a basic life skill, something every toddler learns how to do in order to get what they want, testing new tactics each time they hit a wall. You develop a strategy and you re-examine it as situations evolve, Sean McGee of Nelligan O’Brian Paine told a PD session at the 2016 CBA Legal Conference in Ottawa.
Will you work with me? Keeping employees engaged August 13, 2016 Monkeys don’t like it when they’re not treated fairly, and neither do people. And treating people unfairly is one sure way of creating disengagement among employees.
The Pitch: Legal tech innovators take the stage at 2016 CBA Legal Conference August 12, 2016 Probably the first clue that this wasn’t your senior partner’s CBA Legal Conference event was the disco ball and the dance music booming out of the doors at The Pitch the CBA’s first-ever legal innovation startup competition, hosted with LegalX.
Minister of Justice addresses delegates at the 2016 CBA Legal Conference (Video) August 12, 2016 Minister of Justice addresses delegates at the 2016 CBA Legal Conference (Video)