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TD class action ends in payout to non-profits

Jacquie McNish — Thu, 9 Jul 2009 19:07 -0400

Organizations will receive $28.4-million for financial literacy, legal aid, following suit over Visa surcharges

McIsaac departs McCarthys

Jacquie McNish — Wed, 8 Jul 2009 16:36 -0400

Move to Borden Ladner prompted by firm's review of operations at Ottawa office

Teed off at Glen Abbey: Feud a backdrop to Open

PAUL WALDIE — Sun, 5 Jul 2009 19:53 -0400

An Ontario Superior Court judge has sought to quell a dispute between Glen Abbey owner ClubLink and a disgruntled tenant of the golf course's upscale office space

Oslers cuts 23 support staff

Jacquie McNish — Thu, 2 Jul 2009 17:47 -0400

Layoffs at firm's Toronto, Montreal and New York offices come as clients seek to reduce legal bills

For Ontario foreign lawyers, accreditation process eases

Kirk Makin — Wed, 1 Jul 2009 23:30 -0400

Program to be launched next spring will ease an often arduous journey

Law professors support legal-aid boycott

Kirk Makin — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 21:48 -0400

Defence lawyers refusing to take on serious cases to draw attention to under-funding

Top court gives weight to ill children's wishes

KIRK MAKIN — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 0:00 -0400

But state's power to determine child's best interests 'overarching'

Top court rules transfusion law constitutional

Kirk Makin — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:36 -0400

Majority rules seriously-ill children under 16 can be forced to take life-saving medical treatment against their wishes

Teen sues elite school for defamation

Kirk Makin — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:52 -0400

In the first defamation lawsuit launched by a youth, 15-year-old claims he was wrongly suspended from Toronto French School for beating up a visitor and then compared to genocidal Nazis at a school assembly

The bidding war is over …

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:11 -0400

McCarthy Tétrault snags David McAusland

When bankruptcy trustees ‘run amok'

Jacquie McNish — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:08 -0400

Toronto architect spent six years battling staggering fees and the improper handling of insolvency proceedings

McLachlin pronounces on judicial activism

Kirk Makin — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 23:35 -0400

She is celebrating a ‘rewarding' decade as Chief Justice of Canada

Court dismisses overtime class action against CIBC

Jacquie McNish and Tara Perkins — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:23 -0400

Judge rules complaints too ‘individualized' to be heard as one suit in one of first such cases to target a major company

London layoffs cast a long shadow

Marzena Czarnecka — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 7:05 -0400

As boom turned to bust and British law firms began to jettison staff, the legal landscape has had to change

Ethical help for lawyers

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:46 -0400

Ontario Bar Association launching mentorship program