Lawyers don’t come close to fully serving the legal needs that exist in society. There can be no ethical justification for prohibiting that which lawyers don’t actually provide nor, more scarily, what can be effectively provided at lower cost.

This issue’s debate looks at the increasingly popular robo-advisor; used in financial services, robo-advisors provide wealth management advice based on an automated algorithm, in place of live financial advisors. Could this technology be successfully applied to legal services? Would it be a boon to the profession or a means to increase access to justice?

JUST.’s newest column, ‘Debatable’, gives two lawyers the opportunity to battle through an interesting and provocative legal issue. Our first issue up for debate is one that has boiled the blood of many a lawyer in recent years: Is Big Law doomed or here to stay?

JUST.’s newest column, ‘Debatable’, gives two lawyers the opportunity to battle through an interesting and provocative legal issue. Envisioned as a friendlier “Hunger Games” or a cuddlier WWE match, we hope that this feature will elicit thought-provoking and competing views on topics of interest to practitioners.

Recently criminal defence lawyers have come under fire for aggressively cross-examining complainants in sexual assault cases.

Sexual assault trials are different from other trials. How can we weaken the power of stereotypes and make the process less traumatic for complainants?

Future-focused law firms are exploring new workspace strategies to reshape office culture and support evolving strategies

Investigator Brian King's 20-year pursuit of a killer.

Three lawyers who've created the perfect recipe with food and law.

Canada is no North Star when it comes to access to civil justice. How we compare to other jurisdictions.