Category Archives: CLE

Learning to run

By Jordan Furlong | Published: October 24, 2011
There’s an old expression among professional sports coaches: “You can’t teach speed.” It’s usually meant to indicate that there are things you can train athletes to do well (skills) and things that are simply God-given (raw talent), and it encourages the traditional view that talent is more valuable. I’ve come to believe differently. In most [...]
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CLE’s steep learning curve

By Jordan Furlong | Published: February 6, 2009
@LTNY online networking panel. This is not what I expected. Must either leave/kill self soon as possible. Haven’t we all been there at one time or another? Stuck in a presentation that we devoutly wished we’d never signed up (or been obliged) to attend? Up till now, all we could do was suffer in silence [...]
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Ontario bar admission overhaul, part 2

By Jordan Furlong | Published: February 1, 2008
Continuing from yesterday’s post, here’s the conclusion of a two-part running commentary on the Interim Report To Convocation from the Law Society of Upper Canada’s Licensing and Accreditation Task Force. Again, this won’t be a blow-by-blow account of the report, but I do recommend you read the whole thing. This article (which is also appearing [...]
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Ontario bar admission overhaul, part 1

By Jordan Furlong | Published: January 31, 2008
Yesterday, I posted a brief note about the Law Society of Upper Canada’s Licensing and Accreditation Task Force Interim Report To Convocation. Today, as promised, is the start of a two-part running commentary on what struck me as the most relevant or noteworthy aspects of the report. The first half, which I’ll address below, deals [...]
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Articling abolition? A groundbreaking LSUC report

By Jordan Furlong | Published: January 30, 2008
It arrived quietly and without fanfare. I’ve seen no reports of it in the mainstream media or the legal press. In fact, the young-lawyer-focused law blogs Precedent and Law Is Cool are the only places I’ve seen talk about it so far. But the Law Society of Upper Canada’s Licensing and Accreditation Task Force Interim [...]
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MCLE’s new look

By Jordan Furlong | Published: January 28, 2008
The cover story for National‘s March 2008 edition will explore mandatory continuing professional development, or MCPD, which will be up and running in Canada less than a year from now. If you’re from England, Wales, Australia, or any of the 43 US states with MCLE regimes, it might surprise you to learn that no Canadian [...]
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