Articles 2020

Erin Cowling provides her perspective on the unique opportunity for solo and small firm lawyers to assist newly called lawyers looking to switch practice areas. Read on to find out her experience and her take on how solo and small firm lawyers can give these lawyers a chance.

Rocco G. Scocco offers readers his personal “Top Five Lessons” learned in his first year of sole practice as a freshly minted lawyer. If you are seeking advice about whether sole practice is right for you, the only ones who can give that advice are other lawyers who have done it themselves. Most importantly, the only person who can know if it is the right choice is you.

Discover five ways to efficiently expand your practice during a pandemic.

A welcome message from the Chair and Vice-Chair of the CCLHR section, providing an overview of the section's anticipated activities for the upcoming year.

With time, every lawyer arrives at the conclusion that knowing the law alone is not enough to manage a successful law practice. Inherently, law is a business just like any other – there are employees, supply chains, reputational decisions, and much more. Accordingly, here are a few important features and tips for lawyers to internalize in becoming successful business people.

Rachel Sachs, Chair of the 2020/2021 OBA Women Lawyers Forum, welcomes the OBA WLF community.

Please find our summaries of the civil decisions of the Court of Appeal for Ontario for the week of September 21, 2020. There were only three substantive decisions. One of them involved Blaney McMurtry's very own Ryan Kniznik, who was substantially successful in representing our client in Levin v. Levin, a family law appeal.