Pulse
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March 28, 2025
Tailgate party of the first part | Marcel Strigberger
There are three things in life I despise. 1) Those cheeky recorded bank messages saying they’re experiencing more calls than usual; 2) The scent of Parmesan cheese and 3) Tailgaters.
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March 28, 2025
Release of O’Connor report is a good start, but there’s a long way to go to | Anita Szigeti
Seventy thousand legal professionals governed by the Law Society of Ontario (LSO) were surprised to hear that the society had finally decided to release the report of Dennis O’Connor examining the raise their CEO got without convocation’s approval last summer.
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March 28, 2025
Ontario Law Society releases report on CEO pay controversy
After a push from members of the legal profession, the Law Society of Ontario (LSO) has released a report looking at the controversial decision to increase the salary of a former CEO despite it not receiving a vote from law society benchers.
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March 28, 2025
Canadian legal groups and regulators slam Trump administration’s ‘attacks’ on U.S. judiciary and bar
Canadian bar groups and the country’s 14 legal regulators are condemning the new U.S. administration’s “attacks” on American legal institutions. The concerns of Canada’s legal community were sparked recently by various calls from U.S. President Donald Trump and his allies to impeach judges who have not ruled in favour of the Republican administration’s actions, as well as by presidential executive orders and negative statements targeting individual lawyers and law firms, the immigration bar and so-called “Big Law” in the United States.
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March 28, 2025
Lavery welcomes two new lawyers
Maxime Duval-Charland and Frédéric Bolduc have joined Quebec-based firm Lavery.
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March 27, 2025
IMK adds former law clerk Anthony Breton
IMK has welcomed Anthony Breton to its team.
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March 27, 2025
Nicholas Backman named partner at LRMM
Lapointe Rosenstein Marchand Melançon (LRMM) has promoted Nicholas Backman to partner.
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March 27, 2025
The problem with immigration detention | John L. Hill
Many Canadians are feeling apprehensive since the election of Donald Trump as the 47th president of the United States. We fear for our economy with on-again, off-again threats of tariffs. We become angered at suggestions of annexation to become the 51st state. Few of us have felt the oppression of concerted state action affecting our daily lives.
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March 26, 2025
SpringLaw brings in new employment and labour lawyer
SpringLaw has announced that Calvin To has joined the firm as an employment and labour lawyer in Toronto.
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March 26, 2025
Rae Christen Jeffries LLP welcomes newest associate
The management labour and employment law firm of Rae Christen Jeffries LLP has announced a new associate, Piraveena Ganesarasa.