• The Minister of Labour May be Stopping by Your Law Office. Are You Ready?
• The Ontario Court of Appeal Recognizes a New Tort: Intrusion About Seclusion
• 5 Reasons to Incorporate Your Law Practice (revised)
• Striking a Work-Life Balance
  

Volume 8, No. 3 - June 2012

In this issue:

• Message from Outgoing Chair Aaron Grinhaus
• Message from Incoming Chair Robert Shawyer
• Diversify without Dabbling: Expand your competence before expanding your practice
• It's Not Always about the Numbers
• Book Review: Tech Guidance for Small Firms
• New Photography Tools
• Lawyers' Disbursements
• Grant's Notes

Volume 8, No. 2 - February 2012

In this issue:

• SSGP 2012: A CLE Odyssey - Aaron Grinhaus, chair
• OBA 2012 Institute - Robert Shawyer
• Capacity and Representation: The Unique Role of Counsel appointed under Section 3 of the Substitute Decisions Act - Ameena Sultan
• How to Manage Your Potential Liability as a Director - Pascale Daigneault and Anna Naud
• Business Basics in Changing Times - Mark S. Taborowski and Robert Shawyer
• Planning for That Worst Case Scenario - Grant Buchan-Terrell

Volume 8, No. 1 - November 2011

In this issue:

• It's a Good Time to be a Sole, Small Firm - Aaron Grinhaus, chair
• Message from the Editor - Anne Gottlieb
• What is the "Greying of the Bar" and Why is it Relevant? - Steven Benmore
• Your Law Office Accounting System - Joseph Petranker
• Choosing a New Office Location - Larry Lebovits

Volume 7, No. 3 - February/Février 2011

In this issue:

• Message from the Editor - Randall Walford
• What I Wish I Had Known Before Ever Buying or Selling A Law Practice: 11 Considerations When Buying or Selling a Law Practice - Randall Walford
• What’s It Worth? Assessing Law Practice Values for Retirement and Other Exit Strategies - Michael Carnegie
• Planning Your Perfect Practice Sale…Optimal Timeframes to Maximize Value - Randall Walford and Ian Solomon
• Don't Leave Home Without it! 4 Necessities for the Vacationing Sole Practitioner - Pascale Daigneault
• Message From The Chair - Joe McCallum
• Employment Agreements for Law Firms - Joe McCallum
• Institute 2011 - Governing Yourself Accordingly: Protecting Your Workplace from Conduct Unbecoming
• Section Updates - Listserve & Upcoming Conference

Volume 7, No. 2 - December/Décembre 2010

In this issue:

• Message from the Chair - Joe McCallum
• Embaucher un stagiaire ? Une idée pas si bête… - Jean- François Morin
• Bill 168 - Is Your Firm Prepared? - Joyce Thomas
• Employment Agreements for Law Firms - Joe McCallum
• The Challenge of Employee Retention - Sumaira Shaikh
• The Myth of General Practice in 2011 - Grant Buchan-Terell
• Simple Marketing Strategies Make for Homegrown Success - Randall Walford

Volume 7, No. 1 - October/Octobre 2010

In this issue:

• Message from the Chair - Joe McCallum
• "Like Me": Facebook for Lawyers - Pascale Daigneault
• iPhone Applications for Lawyers / des application iPhone pour les common lawyers? - Jean François Morin
• Social Media Tips for Lawyers - James Morton
• Social Media and Law Student Recruitment - Omar Ha-Redeye
• Warning: The News Uses of Facebook - Russell Tilden
• The Virtues of LinkedIn - Sumaira Shaikh
• What is Social Media? - Geoff Evans

Volume 6, No. 4 - May/Mai 2010

In this Issue:

• Greetings From the Chair - Joe McCallum
• The Best Employment Websites - Pascale Daigneault
• A Career in Law: Defining Success on Your Own Terms - Nicole Garton-Jones
• Protecting Doctor-Patient Confidentiality within the Context of Personal Injury Litigation - Hermina Nuruc
• Ontario Report Goes “Digital,” a Disappointment for the Google Generation - Pei-Shing B. Wang

Volume 6, No. 3 - February/Février 2010

In this Issue:

• Greetings From the Section Chair
• Mandatory CLE in the Pipeline: Dust Off Your Learning Caps
• Everything You Wanted to Know About the Lawyer Liaison Counsel But Were Too Busy To Ask...
• Book Lover Warms to the Kindle
• Five Ways to Make Your Office More Efficient
• OBA Website Creation Tool - Now Live!

Volume 6, No. 2 - November/Novembre 2009

In this Issue:

• Message From the Chair
• Solos Know About Selflessness
• Throw Out the Fax Machine
• About Google AdWords and Your Law Practice
• Do’s and Don’ts of Referral Agreements
• Program Notice: Assesments - Best Practices

Volume 6, No. 1- September/Septembre 2009

In this Issue:

• Message from the Chair
• A Small Firm's Edge
• A Web-based Alternative to PCLaw 
• Using the Internet to Plan Your Travel
• A Fire Drill For My Backup Systems
•  Program Notice: Referral Fees

Volume 5, No. 2 - March/Mars 2008

In this Issue:

• How to be a Happy Lawyer
• Message from the Chair
• How to Manage Your First Legal Assistant
• How to Regain Control from Your Blackberry
• Do You Really Need a "Smartphone"?
• Notes from the Middleground

Volume 5, No. 1 - October/Octobre 2007

In this Issue:

• Greetings from the Chair - by Bonnie Patrick
• Managing Conflicts of Interest: How Does Your Firm Measure Up? - by Barbara A. Schwartz
• Help for a Colleague - If You Don't Help Who Will - by Leota Embleton
• Access to Information: Building a Law Library for Sole Practitioners and Small Firms - by Nicole Ewing
• Google's Best Kept Secret - by David Leffler
• Living with Integrity - by Ellen Freedman
• Notes from the Middleground - by Peter K. Hrastovec

Volume 4, No. 2 - February/Février 2007

In this Issue:

• Greetings from the Chair - by Bonnie Patrick
• A Checklist for Balance in Your Personal and Professional Life - by John Starzynski
• Adobe Acrobat vs. The Clones - by Stephen Bird
• Preparing to Say Goodbye to the Baby Boomers - by Ellen Freedman
• Notes from the Middleground - by Peter Hrastovec
• Outsourcing - by Aïda Van Wees
• Effective and Profitable Outsourcing:  10 Tips from 10 Years of Experience - by Stephen L. Taran
• Employee Work Ethic — A Different Business Model - by Cindy Wahler
• To Store or Not to Store:  Records Storage Cost-cutting Tips - by Barbara A. Schwartz
• Law Firm Profitability - by James Murphy

Volume 4, No. 1 - December/Décembre 2006

In this Issue:

• Greetings from the Chair - by Bonnie Patrick
• The Virtual Assistant - Every Lawyer Needs One! - By J. Liz Saunders-McManus and Erica James
• GST Visitor's Rebate to be Cancelled - by David M. Sherman
• GST on Disbursements - by David M. Sherman
• Court Includes Step-Child as a Beneficiary under Will - by Laura M. Tyrrell
• The Fee Schedule Returns - by Raymond G. Leclair
• A Kinder and Gentler Marriage Contract - by Philip M. Epstein, Q.C., L.S.M.
• Subscribe Now for Your Section's Listserv

Volume 3, No. 2 - May/Mai 2006

In this Issue:

• Greetings from the Chair - by Bonnie Patrick  
• Someone Told Me ... - by Peter Hrastovec  
• Roman's 10 Laws of Advocacy - by Andrew J. Roman  
• Reflections on Start-up - by Lloyd Hoffer  
• Desktop Searching - by Stephen Bird  
• The Three Flavors of Adobe Acrobat: A Litigation Perspective - by Greg Krehel  
• Collecting Your Costs: Even from the Crown, Children's Aid Society and Family Responsibility Office (Institute 2006 Paper) - by Dawn Melville  
• Costs in Public Law and Before Administrative Tribunals (Institute 2006 Paper) - by Erica James  
• New Chair of Sections  
• Publications   
• Multimedia Products 
• Section Executive 2005-2006

Volume 3, No. 1 - September/Septembre 2005

In this Issue:

• Greetings from the Chair - by Bonnie Patrick  
• OBA Launches Sole, Small Firm and General Practice List Serve - by Bonnie Patrick 
• Workaholism - by John Starzynski  
• Do I Think and Act Like a Lawyer or a Normal Person? Can they be One and the Same?  
• Google - Do You Feel Lucky? - by Charles Bennett  
• Business Strategy is Not Fuzzy - by Richard G. Stock  
• What Makes a Law Firm Fire on All Cylinders - by John Fraser  
• 2006 Institute of Continuing Legal Education  
• Publications   
• Section Executive 2005-2006

Volume 2, No. 4 - May/Mai 2005

In this Issue:

• Case Management - How to Make It Work for You and Your Clients - by Master M.J. Nolan
• Surviving Your "Junioring" Years - by David J. Levy
• Managing the Security and Privacy of Electronic Data in a Law Office - by Daniel E. Pinnington
• Watch Your Partners - by James C. Morton
• Conflict of Interest - by Jonathan Speigel
• OBA to Host Free Lawyer Safety Workshop
• Publications
• Section Executive 2004-2005

Volume 2, No. 3 - March/Mars 2005

In this Issue:

• Greetings from the Chair - by Bonnie Patrick
• You've Been Stiffed For Your Fees - Now What? - by Bonnie Patrick
• Stop the World - I Want to Get Off! (Practicing Law in the 21st Century) - by Sharon D. Nelson 
• Bill Regularly and Be a Winner - by Me Marie-Chantal Thouin 
• Maintaining Yourself and Your Practice Through Personal Trauma - by Edward N. Levitt 
• Aging Parents/Family - Lawyer Career Stress - by Leota Embleton 
• PIPEDA Update - by Joe McCallum 
• Section Executive 2004-2005 

Volume 2, No. 2 - December/Decémbre 2004

In this Issue:

• Message from the Chair - by Bonnie Patrick
• The Art and Craft of "Doing the Minutes" - by Brian Bucknall
• Author! Author! The Law Society's Sole and Small Firm Practitioners' History Project - by Gary Lloyd Gottlieb
• Mandatory Mediation - Must for Today's World - by Daljit Nirman
• Balance at Any Age - by John Starzynski
• Getting More Business from Existing Clients - by Ellen Freedman
• Coping with Holiday Stress - by Leota Embleton
• Upcoming Program
• Section Executive 2004-2005

Volume 2, No. 1 - October/Octobre 2004

In this Issue:

• Message from the Chair - by Bonnie Patrick
• Speaking Notes of Irwin Cotler, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada
• Seven Ways Law Firms Lose Money - by Dustin Cole
• Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 - by Stephen Bird
• Retirement as a New Career/Life Development Stage: A Renewal Process - by Stephen P. Gallagher
• Effective Yellow Pages Advertisements: It's Not Just Size and Colour That Matter - by Dan Pinnington
• Section Executive 2004-2005

Volume 1, No. 4 - May/mai 2004

In this Issue:

• Message from the Chair - by Bonnie Patrick
• News from the Middleground - by Peter Hrastovec
• Essential PowerPoint Keyboard Shortcuts - by Dan Pinnington
• Your Computer's Immune System - by David Giuffrida
• Focusing During Stress - by Leota Embleton and John Starzynski
• Windows Utilities - by Stephen Bird

Volume 1, No. 3 - March/mars 2004

In this Issue:

• Greetings from the Chair - by Bonnie Patrick
• Get Your Retainer Precedents from the Annual Institute SSFGP/LPM Breakfast - by Bonnie Patrick
• Fraud Alert: Be Aware Fraud Reports are on the Rise - by Dan Pinnington  
• Storing e-mails - by David Giuffrida
• Coping When You Are on Your Own - by John G. Starzynski
• Road Warrior - by Jeffrey Allen
• Advocacy, Government Relations and Communications Department Mandate and Services - by Christopher Holcroft
• What Word Processor Do You Use? - by David Giuffrida Money Saving Tips  - by David Giuffrida
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• Useful Links for Your Practice - by Joe McCallum
• Upcoming Section Event of Interest

Volume 1, No. 2 - January/janvier 2004

In this Issue:

• From the Chair - by Bonnie Patrick
• Federal Privacy Legislation Will Affect Most Lawyers - by Richard Steinecke
• Profile - by Ed Olkovich
• Column: Law Tech - by David Giuffrida
• Effective Lawyer/Client Communications with Voice Mail and E-mail - by Dan Pinnington
• Technology, Stress and the Lawyer's Quality of Life - by Jim Calloway
• Focusing During Stress - by Leota Embleton and John Starzynski
• Solo Life - by Edward Olkovich
• Notes from the Middleground - by Peter Hrastovec
• Tabs 2 - by Peter Hrastovec
• SSFGP Section Breakfast Session at OBA Institute: Getting Retainers and Collecting on Accounts - Show Me the Money (in my bank account)!
• Privacy Links
• Practice Tips Wanted

Volume 1, No. 1 - September/septembre 2003

In this Issue:

• Introduction - by Bonnie Patrick
• Issues Confronting Young Lawyers Practicing in Small Firms - by Joe McCallum
• Profile - Anita Szigeti - by David Giuffrida
• OBA Web Site 
• Notice of Online Questionnaire
• The Google Toolbar - by David Giuffrida
• Section Executive
• Operation Update event on October 3
• Building and Running a Successful Practice - October 20
• Word Processor Tips and Tricks - by Dan Pinnington

Generally Speaking -Vol. 5, No. 2- May 2000

In this Issue:

• Practice Tips — Goodyear Canada v. Burnhamthorpe Square ("Goodyear Case") (1999) 21 R.P.R. (3d) 1
• Surviving Spouse Who Elects under FLA Cannot be Executor
• No More Ways to Leave Your Lover?
• Prior Capable Wishes & Interpretation of Impossibility
• Mapping Out a Successful Law Practice
• Which Type of Presenter Are You?
• Legislative Update
• How Lawyers Can Use the Power of Marketing
• Sole, Small Firm and General Practice Section Executive 1999-2000