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TORONTO — A Kitchener native, Orlando Da Silva has been named first vice-president of the Ontario Bar Association.

BRAMPTON— A Brampton lawyer has been elected second vice-president of the 17,000-member Ontario Bar Association (OBA), and he will take over as president in two years.

Fleck Law managing partner Pascale Daigneault becomes the new president of the Ontario Bar Association this week.

Pascale Daigneault has been named the new president-elect of the Ontario Bar Association. She will become the first Sarnia lawyer to hold the position in over 60 years.

Sarnia-based lawyer Pascale Daigneault will take over the helm at the Ontario Bar Association next week, beginning her one-year stint as president.

Ontario’s current pretrial system is ineffective when it comes to using judicial resources to arrive at a settlement, according the Ontario Bar Association’s task force on judicial dispute resolution.

Attorney General John Gerretsen reiterated Wednesday outside cabinet he has only just received the Ontario Bar Association's report obtained by QP Briefing[1] on the need for firmer guidelines for judicial mediation in the province.

Ontario needs firmer rules surrounding how the judiciary are used to settle difficult to mediate cases before trial, a recent Ontario Bar Association report obtained by QP Briefing says.

Robert Shawyer, a family lawyer who chairs the Ontario Bar Association’s sole, small firm, and general practice section, says the difficulty in earning a living from legal aid matters is a big reason for that last statistic.

At the April 3 dinner meeting of the Ontario Bar Association Franchise Law Section, the topic of ethical issues for franchise lawyers was addressed. This was Round 2 of a thought-provoking ...