A Toronto man was found not guilty of first-degree murder but convicted of the lesser offence of manslaughter in the 2015 beating death of an Ottawa music journalist and ... Read more

Health professionals need to pay close attention to complaints lodged against them with their college because the consequences can be dire, says Toronto health lawyer Elyse ... Read more

A plan by the U.S. border agency to ban visitors for life if they have any connection to the now-legal Canadian marijuana industry puts travellers in a catch-22 and will cause ... Read more

Hospitals need to guard against conflicts of interest that can arise among the directors they nominate to sit on boards of shared-services organizations, Toronto health lawyer ... Read more

A precedent-setting decision from the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario (HRTO) addresses the growing issue of employers refusing to hire a person unless they are a Canadian ... Read more

Brampton civil litigator Edwin Upenieks is every inch the lawyer’s lawyer. During more than three decades at the bar, Upenieks, partner with Lawrence, Lawrence, ... Read more

Clients who hire Toronto family lawyer Brahm Siegel should get used to the sound of his voice. Siegel, senior partner with Nathens Siegel Barristers LLP , tells ... Read more

Toronto commercial litigator and appellate counsel Brian Radnoff says he moved his practice to U.S.-based Dickinson Wright LLP to leverage the firm's cross-border business ... Read more

Canada’s current craft brewery boom could turn out to be the precursor for a new skirmish in the ongoing beer wars, Toronto intellectual property lawyer Taras Kulish tells ... Read more

Although the government of British Columbia continues to focus on the issue of money laundering in the province’s real estate sector, the problem is that it is occurring ... Read more

The use of shared-service organizations (SSO) for the procurement of goods and services in the health sector can provide better value for money and a more transparent process, ... Read more

A child's need for certainty should guide the parties in a custody dispute, Toronto family lawyer Erin Chaiton-Murray tells AdvocateDaily.com . Chaiton-Murray, partner with ... Read more

Smaller police departments that are unable to budget for a full-time video analyst may benefit from contracting out major cases, Crystal Beach forensic video analyst Michael ... Read more

By Marcel Strigberger So the Insight spacecraft has landed on Mars. Is this huge? I’m not sure. This is the eighth spacecraft to land on the red planet but I am actually totally disappointed ... Read more

By Amir Tajkarimi Many businesses have come to rely on the office trifecta: Word , Outlook and the fax . Law firms are no different, but there some pretty convincing reasons to question ... Read more

By Doug MacLeod A long service, older worker is terminated. Under the terms of the individual’s pension plan, the employer is not permitted to continue his participation in the pension ... Read more

By Amelia Phillips Under what circumstances can a witness be compelled to attend cross-examination outside of the jurisdiction in which he/she lives versus, say, by video conferencing? While the ... Read more

By Céline Dostaler With the holiday season underway, so too are the holiday RIDE program checkpoints. Each year, law enforcement agencies across Ottawa and throughout Ontario set up checkpoints ... Read more

By Marcus Sixta Deciding on a holiday parenting schedule can be very difficult. The holiday season can be especially difficult to navigate for newly divorced or separated couples. In a family ... Read more

By Inga Andriessen Warning – rant ahead. Worse, it’s a rant that only lawyers probably care about. Read on at your own peril. There are many days, well frankly all of them, that ... Read more

By David M. Smith and Yasmin M. Vinograd In some cases, an incapable person residing outside of Canada has assets in Canada. Can a guardian appointed outside of Canada have access to the incapable’s Canadian ... Read more

By Mackenzie Irwin As we head into the holiday season, many employers will be hosting holiday parties for their employees. With the recent legalization of cannabis and a new decision out of the ... Read more

By Lonny Rosen and Elyse Sunshine In a recent decision , the Health Professions Appeal and Review Board (the Board) affirmed the obligations of a dentist when a surgical instrument broke ... Read more

By Andrew Feldstein Notions of the “traditional” family unit have evolved over time. Accordingly, the judicial system needs to adapt to be better equipped to adjudicate new issues ... Read more

By Lisa Gelman The court recently examined the interesting question of whether, and under what circumstances, a party can obtain an order to sell their matrimonial home even when their ... Read more

By Alan Bass and Michael Sauber In our post, " Legal tech shows no signs of slowing ," we examined the drivers behind the use of technology in legal practice. In this post, we make the ... Read more