Category Archives: Governance

Micro law schools

By Jordan Furlong | Published: March 24, 2008
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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Transforming the practising bar

By Jordan Furlong | Published: February 6, 2008
If you’d like a glimpse of the legal profession of the near-to-mid-future, look to London. Yesterday, the UK’s Bar Standards Board launched a consultation paper concerning the effect on barristers of the new Legal Services Act, which received Royal Assent last October. (The Solicitors Regulation Authority addressed the LSA’s impact earlier.) Here’s LegalWeek and The [...]
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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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Divided profession, collective governance

By Jordan Furlong | Published: January 8, 2008
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 [...]
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