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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...

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...