Appeal court orders reassement of law firms' fees in personal injury case
An Ottawa man who battled two of his former law firms in court is celebrating the decision by the Ontario Court of Appeal to have his fee agreements with the firms reassessed. The ruling in Clatney v....
View ArticleFirms told use of data can provide greater predictability, certainty
Every organization in law needs a data strategy, says Daniel Martin Katz. The associate law professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago-Kent College of Law says law firms can be better...
View ArticleOsler launches Ottawa-based initiative to support deals
Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP said on Wednesday it has launched a technology-based platform to support coverage of corporate deals and hired five people to help with the process. The team will be...
View ArticleFaskens and PwC Canada join forces on e-discovery
Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP has partnered with professional services firm PwC Canada for the provision of e-discovery services, the firm announced today. “What this has allowed us to do is to really...
View ArticleBlakes launches challenge awarding $100K prize for legal tracking tool
Are law firms really innovating or is it all talk? That is a common debate in the profession these days and Blake Cassels & Graydon LLP has just launched a new challenge to move beyond the noise to...
View ArticleRoy Heenan remembered as ‘brilliant jurist’ and ‘big personality’
Former colleagues are remembering Roy Heenan, co-founder of Heenan Blaikie LLP, one of Canada’s largest law firms, as a larger-than-life personality who loved the law and the people he worked...
View ArticleMoodys Gartner and Wildeboer Dellelce form alliance
Wildeboer Dellelce LLP and Moodys Gartner Tax Law LLP have announced they are forming a strategic alliance to provide services to clients on a referral basis. Wildeboer Dellelce is a corporate business...
View ArticleDiamond and Diamond expands to be ‘one-stop-shop’
Ontario personal injury firm Diamond and Diamond Lawyers is looking to expand into real estate and family law.The highly visible firm that bills itself as the “People’s Law Firm” has announced it will...
View ArticleMiller Thomson’s legal knowledge centre opens in Vancouver
Miller Thomson LLP has launched a legal knowledge centre in Vancouver in what the managing partner in British Columbia calls "a quest to be more relevant in 2017."“I’m not saying there’s something not...
View ArticleBennett Jones lends support to Raise the Arrow search
Sander Grieve used to joke with his wife that M&A lawyers are the jet fighters of Bay Street. Now he has the flight suit to go with it.But in this suit, the Bennett Jones LLP partner and head of...
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