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Category Archives: Governance
Resolving the legal education disconnect
In conversation last week with a law school professor, the subject of law firms’ tunnel vision when recruiting law graduates came up. Firms focus relentlessly on the students with the highest grades, the professor lamented, even though these students can be one-dimensional performers with an affinity for the academic environment and no competing pressures outside [...]
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The UK crucible
North American lawyers have been fretting lately about the effects of this recession and what it means for their future. But the recession is only an amplifier or accelerator of change, not its source, and it doesn’t tell us much about the shape of things to come. If you really want to know what the [...]
Also posted in Competition, Innovation 2 Comments
The evolution of lawyer regulation
The thing about change is that once it gets rolling, it’s almost impossible to control and can go in directions you neither anticipated nor like very much. That thought occurred to me while reading a report issued last week by the Legal Services Policy Institute, the think-tank division of UK legal training company The College [...]
Also posted in Big Firms, Talent 5 Comments
Podcast on conflicts of interest
Law21 was quiet for a week while I worked the Canadian Bar Association’s Canadian Legal Conference in Quebec City. Among the highlights for me was moderating a podcast on the CBA’s just-released Final Report of its Task Force on Conflicts of Interest. You can access the podcast by clicking the third link in the [...]
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Here come the orderlies
This Law Times article, about changes made in 2006 to Ontario’s Law Society Act that have suddenly galvanized lawyers in the province, makes for an interesting read. Those amendments brought paralegals (non-lawyers providing limited legal services) under the regulatory authority of the law society, which now refers to both lawyers and paralegals as its “licensees” [...]
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Micro law schools
Two interesting articles by Alex Dimson at Law Is Cool today have me thinking about a possible next step in the evolution of law schools. Two Ontario universities have applied to set up law schools: Lakehead University in Thunder Bay and Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo. Alex reports that Lakehead’s application, although on shakier ground [...]
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Articling abolition? A groundbreaking LSUC report
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 [...]
Also posted in CLE, Careers, Law School, New Lawyers 4 Comments
Divided profession, collective governance
For your consideration: here’s a list of all the governing and/or regulatory bodies for health-care professionals in the province of Ontario:
College of Audiologists and Speech-Language Pathologists
College of Chiropodists
College of Chiropractors
College of Dental Hygienists
Royal College of Dental Surgeons
College of Dental Technologists
College of Dietitians
College of Massage Therapists
College of Medical Laboratory Technologists
College of Medical Radiation Technologists
College of Nurses
College [...]
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Will-writing and the redefinition of “legal services”