Ontario Lawyers Gazette Archives

Fall/Winter 2006, Vol 10, No. 3

• Treasurer's Message / Message du trésorier

Focus

• Quality Assurance in the Legal Profession
• Quality Assurance and the Client Service Centre

Your Practice

• Mortgage Fraud
• Spotlight on Complaints Resolution team
• Ontario Lawyers' Assistance Program

News & Views

• Convocation News
• Law Society 2007 Budget
• Paralegal Legislation - Update
• Law Society pleased with new anti-money laundering bill
• The Heritage Committee's Sole and Small Firm Practitioners' History Project

Tour d'Horizon

• L'attrait des États-Unis pour les juristes canadiens
• Être sourd et francophone en Ontario
• Des exemptions qui font plaisir au Barreau
• La défense de l'équité au Barreau du Québec
• En bref

Summer 2006, Vol. 10, No. 2

• Treasurer's Message / Message du trésorier

Focus

• Solo and Small Firm Conference and Expo

Your Practice

• Conflicts of interest
• Practice tips - The Knowledge Tree - Q&A
• A spotlight on the Client Service Centre
• Private Practice Refresher Program begins to apply January 1, 2007
• Consultations result in proposed Residential Real Estate Transaction Guidelines
• Convocation news
• Top honours awarded by the Law Society
• The 2006 Law Society Medal and Lincoln Alexander Award ceremony
• July 2006 Call to Bar Ceremonies
• Just Cause - Human rights defender Alex Neve, Secretary General of Amnesty International Canada
• Clare Lewis's new year in resolutions
• The Law Society's Equity Advisory Group (EAG)

Other News

• Canadian Legal Information Institute (CanLII)
• Reception for International Law Association delegates
• Colloquium on the Legal Profession
• Equity public education events commemorate dates of significance
• E-filing usage increases in 2006
• The Advocates' Society announces new executive
• Run for bencher: Have a say in regulating the profession
• In Memoriam - Carlos Sousa

Other Regular Features

• Tribunal Decisions
• Ontario Lawyers' Assistance Program (OLAP)
• Legal Aid Ontario

Tour d'Horizon

• L'AJEFO à Deerhurst, juin 2006
• Me Louise Hurteau, présidente de l'AJEFO
• En bref
• Discipline
• Pour la bonne cause

Winter 2006, Vol. 10, No. 1

• Treasurer's Message / Message du trésorier

Focus

• Practice Management: Internet makes it easy to keep legal practice skills SHARP
• Interjurisdictional issues for the legal profession

Your Practice

• Trust accounts
• Lawyers e-file in record numbers
• Certified Specialist Program
• Ontario Bar Assistance Program

News & Views

• Convocation highlights
• Just Cause: Feminist academia toasts 20 years of persistence
• Disability Working Group

In other news

• Attorney General announces new Law Commission of Ontario
• LAWPRO awarded sixth annual A (Excellent) financial strength rating
• 2005 Life Memberships
• Technology helps broaden delivery and access: Spotlight on Telejustice Project
• Legal community raises $150,000 to help feed the hungry in Toronto
• LibraryCo announces launch of advoCHAT a virtual reference service
• Events
• Bernd Christmas - National Aboriginal Achievement Award recipient
• Legal Aid Ontario
• Tribunal Decisions

Tour d'Horizon

• Carrières en justice
• Congrès annuel de l'AJEFO et nouvelle adresse
• Pour la bonne cause : La femme et le droit
• Les bienfaits du radicalisme
• Un travail de bénédictine
• Maîtriser la traduction juridique
• Histoire des Noirs à Haïti
• En bref
• Une chance à ne pas laisser passer
• Discipline

Fall/ Winter 2005, Volume 9, No. 4

• Treasurer's Message / Message du trésorier

Focus

• Equality: The Heart of a Just Society ­- Looking Back, Looking Forward

Your Practice

• Professional Corporations
• Foreign Legal Consultants
• Getting ready for 2006
• Planning to retire in 2006?
• Lawyer Referral Service
• New Certified Specialists
• Ontario Bar Assistance Program (OBAP)

News & Views

• Convocation highlights
• 2006 Budget
• In Memoriam: John Douglas Arnup, Q.C., LSM, 1911-2005
• Just Cause: Lawyers help feed the hungry across the province
• Lawyers from abroad look to Canada for future
• Call for nominations
• Louis Riel Day 2005: "Honour of the Crown: Evolving from Incantation to Practice"
• Notice to the Profession
• In other news

Other Regular Features

• Discipline Digest
• Legal Aid Ontario

Tour d'Horizon

• De Dijon à Toronto
• En passant par la Belgique
• Profil de la population francophone en Ontario
• La Loi, la Charte et l'avenir - Colloque à Sudbury
• En bref
• Discipline

Fall 2005 Vol. 9, No. 3

Focus

• CEO's Message / Message du directeur général
• There's no life like practice in a small firm

Your Practice

• Member Resource Centre
  Preventive steps and avoiding common pitfalls
  New Certified Specialists
  Ontario Bar Assistance Program (OBAP)

News & Views

• Convocation highlights
• Interview with Treasurer George Hunter
• 2005 Law Society Medals
• Call to the bar celebrations
• Just Cause: Mary Dawson, Q.C.
• Fourth Colloquium on the Legal Profession
• New chair for Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario
• Public education forums celebrate diversity, encourage dialogue
• In other news

Other Regular Features

• Discipline Digest
• Legal Aid Ontario

Tour d'Horizon

• L'AJEFO à Lutèce
• En bref
• Monsieur le président de la Commission, Me Yves Le Bouthillier
• L'accès à la justice : pour le nouveau siècle
• Discipline

Spring/ Summer 2005 Vol. 9 No.2

Focus

• Treasurer's Message / Message du trésorier
• Technology @ the Firm

Your Practice

• Cheque imaging and By-Law 18 compliance
• Convocation highlights
• Changing the way we license and admit lawyers in Ontario
• Just Cause: Serving the community by serving clients
• Profile of Clare Lewis
• Small firms play large role in the legal profession
• Annual Report highlights
• Mock trials bring students and communities into courts across Ontario
• Public education forums attracting record numbers

In other news

• Working group to examine administration of bencher remuneration
• Heritage group looking to capture legal history
• UWO tackles legal ethics
• Law Society, tribunals meet to discuss paralegal regulation
• Life memberships for 2005
• Pro Bono Law Ontario announces new Board Chair
• Discipline Digest
• Legal Aid Ontario
• Ontario Bar Assistance Program

Tour d'Horizon

• Jacqueline Beckles : Présidente bilingue de l'Association des avocats noirs du Canada
• Nomination du juge Paul Rouleau à la Cour d'appel
• Nomination à la présidence de la Commission du droit du Canada
• De chef de service au Barreau à juge à la Cour supérieure de l'Ontario :Madame la juge Deena Baltman
• Pour le nouveau siècle : Les voies du progrès
• En bref
• Diplômés du programme de common law en français
• Une deuxième conférence Michel Bastarache réussie
• Discipline

Winter 2005 | Vol.9 No. 1

Focus:

This issue spotlights lawyers who are choosing non-traditional ways to use their legal skills to make a difference, and examines the breadth of opportunities available to serve the public interest.

• Lawyers build careers outside of law firms
• Advocates on the front lines

Mentoring the next generation

• Mentor program opens doors for students
• Mentors needed to help show students wide array of opportunities in law

Your Practice

• Member Resource Centre
• Subpoenaed to testify in court or at a tribunal?
• e-filing takes off
• New interactive online Directory of Certified Specialists
• Convocation highlights
• Interview with Attorney General Michael Bryant
• Just Cause: Lawyer Roger Rowe is profiled
• Opening the Law Society's 'Time Capsule'
• New Complaints Resolution Commissioner
• College Advisory Group paving way for paralegal regulation
• Law Society responds to tsunami disaster

In other news

• LaForme and MacFarland judicial appointments
• Celebrating Black History Month 2005
• Canadian Association of Vision Impaired Lawyers offers free membership
• Just published: Access to Justice for a New Century - The Way Forward
• Spring 2005 Public Education Events
• Notices to the profession
• Notice of upcoming annual general meeting
• Legal community raises more than $160,000 to help feed the hungry
• Discipline Digest
• Ontario Bar Assistance Program