Law Society of Saskatchewan Archives for Practice of Law
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January 8, 2019
Reminder: Check Us Out on SlawTips
For the last two years, some of the best legal research and technology tips from our Legal Sourcery team have also been featured on SlawTips. Every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, SlawTips features advice you can use on technology, practice and research. If you want to receive these tips directly, you can sign up with email or RSS, and you can follow...
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November 6, 2018
Referral Fees – What you should know
[Reprinted with permission from the October 2018 edition of Communiqué, by Darcia Senft, General Counsel , Director of Policy and Ethics at the Law Society of Manitoba.] From time to time, we receive questions about fee referral “pitches” and whether such fees can be paid and received without causing a lawyer to act in breach of the rules set out...
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January 31, 2018
Innovating Regulation: An Update on the Prairie Law Societies’ Law Firm Practice Management Pilot Project
By Barbra Bailey, Policy Counsel, & Brenda Hildebrandt, QC, Bencher Law Society of Saskatchewan The Legal Profession Act, 1990 was amended in 2014 to include firms as members of the Law Society. Under the Act, one of the duties of the Law Society is to protect the public by assuring the integrity, knowledge, skill, proficiency and competence of members. As...
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May 12, 2017
Signing the Law Society Roll Book
[caption id="attachment_609" align="alignleft" width="705"] John Diefenbaker's signature in the Law Society Roll Book, signed June 30, 1919[/caption] [caption id="attachment_619" align="alignright" width="245"] Roll Book Spine with Embossed Title[/caption] It is that time of the year again! The students who have completed the Bar Admissions Program will be eligible for admission as lawyers. Those admitted will be required to sign the roll at the...
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May 4, 2016
Law Society Consultation on Entity Regulation
By Barbra Bailey, Policy Counsel Law Society of Saskatchewan Driven in part by new technologies, new business models and access to justice concerns, the practice of law, the public demand for legal services and the regulation of the legal profession around the world are changing. In collaboration with the Law Societies of Alberta and Manitoba, the Law Society of Saskatchewan...
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January 27, 2015
Incivility Paper
By Melanie Hodges Neufeld Slaw recently highlighted an interesting paper about lawyers’ incivility entitled “Judicial Sanction of Uncivil and Unprofessional Conduct”. As Slaw notes: This paper is a practical guide to lawyer behaviours that Canadian courts have deemed uncivil or unprofessional, and to the kinds of judicial sanction – of lawyers and their clients both – that those behaviours have...
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