2020

Taking action on significant delays in obtaining motion dates and long trials was a focus of the Ontario Bar Association’s Fall Council meeting this weekend in Niagara Falls, Ontario.

NIAGARA FALLS – The Ontario Bar Association is launching a new, re-tooled website that is built for the social age of the Internet, including a new “Find-a-Lawyer” application.

TORONTO – John Evans, who was honoured by the Ontario Bar Association (OBA) with a prestigious award, is best known as a Hamilton lawyer, but has a strong connection to Orillia and famed author Stephen Leacock.

The Ontario Bar Association on Tuesday night presented its 10th annual Award for Excellence in Civil Litigation to Hamilton lawyer John Evans.

I'm sitting in the office of John Evans, QC — in his chair, actually (he insists) — on the 15th floor of One King West, the big glass tower, and I can see your house from here.

In boyhood summers in Orillia, Evans played with Stephen Leacock, fuelling a lifelong passion for the power of storytelling.

As the Peel Law Association decides it won’t seek leave to appeal from the Supreme Court of Canada following a racial discrimination ruling against it, lawyers on both sides of the matter agree on one thing

OBA president Pascale Daigneault and CDLPA president Janet Whitehead both hail from Sarnia

Common Law alumna Pascale Daigneault has recently taken over the helm of the Ontario Bar Association for a one-year stint effective on August 15, 2013.

TORONTO – John Evans, one of Ontario’s most experienced and respected civil litigation lawyers, is being honoured by the Ontario Bar Association (OBA) with a prestigious award.