Articles 2022

What it means to use point-first writing, and why you should do it.

Wire fraud targeting lawyers is a prevalent issue in the legal profession. Lawyers may only realize they have been duped into wiring money to a fraudster after the funds have already left their account. Here are some steps that can be taken to reduce the potential losses and risk associated with these attacks.

The law changes, and so do the tools and technologies we use to provide legal services. This article addresses the key concerns that lawyers, paralegals and legal professionals should consider when investing in new technology.

This article summarizes the current approach of Ontario Courts to administrative dismissals following the 2020 suspension due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

In “The Litigator and Mental Health“, Chief Justice Strathy writes about mental health in our profession and what we can do to improve it. Unfortunately, practicing law can be damaging to one’s mental health. In fact, there is a strong correlation between traditional markers of success in the law and depression in lawyers.

For many lawyers, time is everything. But time is hard to manage, particularly when you are busy dealing with a slew of phone calls, emails, invoices and document preparation, which, unfortunately, are not typically billable. In this article, I’ll be taking a look at 5 unique ways to manage your growth and expand your law firm while being cost effective and without, in fact, expanding the number of people working in your law firm.

The author shares three key things we can all do to help support our colleagues in developing career-essential skills and reducing the bias by which we judge competency and capability.

Deborah Glatter outlines factors that have led to the current dearth of mid-level and senior associates available for hire in law firms and offers suggestions for firms hiring in a depleted pipeline, including expanding your pool, changing your interview approach and identifying your candidates' 'must haves'.

In the Harvard Business Review "10 Must Reads: On Emotional Intelligence", Daniel Goleman writes about what makes a good leader. He concludes that there are three crucial ingredients: technical skill, IQ, and emotional intelligence.

With COVID fatigue setting in, motivation to complete work may be in short supply. The Harvard Business Review recently released an article titled “Feeling Overwhelmed? Here’s How to Get through the Workday," in which author Alice Boyes offers the following tips for beating the blues and carrying on with work.