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September 17, 2015
Legal Profession Act (Throwback Thursday)
The Legal Profession Act, S.S. 1907, c. 19, which delegated to the Law Society of Saskatchewan the responsibility to govern the legal profession, was proclaimed into force on September 16, 1907.
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September 16, 2015
Professional Conduct Rulings
By Melanie Hodges Neufeld Recent Professional Conduct Rulings are now available in Volume 28, Issue No. 3 of the Bencher’s Digest. Previous Professional Conduct rulings rendered by the Law Society...
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August 20, 2015
How Did We All Survive the 1990s? (Throwback Thursday)
By Melanie Hodges Neufeld [caption id="attachment_3231" align="alignright" width="300"] Source: Canadian Lawyer, April 1989[/caption] The April 1989 issue of Canadian Lawyer magazine contained the article “Surviving the 1990s” in which top...
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May 5, 2015
Lawyer’s Guide to Detecting and Preventing Money Laundering
By Melanie Hodges Neufeld A Lawyer’s Guide to Detecting and Preventing Money Laundering has been produced by the International Bar Association (IBA) in conjunction with the American Bar Association (ABA) and...
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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...
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January 8, 2015
Did You Know?
By Melanie Hodges Neufeld …that there are a number of specific and mandatory requirements that lawyers must meet when entering into a Joint Retainer with two or more clients? The...
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January 6, 2015
Did You Know?
By Melanie Hodges Neufeld … A lawyer cannot act for both the builder/developer and the purchaser in a real estate transaction resulting from the construction of a new home, even...
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October 23, 2014
American Law Ads – Should We Follow Their Lead?
By Melanie Hodges Neufeld We love our neighbours to the south, if only for their hilarious ads. Check out this ad for the Texas Law Hawk. Our Code of Conduct states:...
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