Pulse
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October 10, 2025
Goldblatt adds Jen Quito as director of legal talent
Goldblatt Partners LLP has welcomed Jen Quito as its director of legal talent, a new position at the firm. She will be based at the Toronto office.
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October 10, 2025
Self-represented litigant loses bid to include trial transcripts
It is common knowledge that when a person testifies, the witness promises to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. That is because the judge, the decision-maker, needs the whole truth to render a just decision. What happens when an appeals court faces a situation where the “whole” truth is not put before it?
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October 10, 2025
Marineland belugas deserve legal protection, not posturing and politics
In 2019, Canada enacted groundbreaking federal law banning the capture and breeding of whales, dolphins and porpoises for entertainment, the Ending the Captivity of Whales and Dolphins Act, also known as the “Free Willy” bill, whereby Canadian facilities are not allowed to hold, breed or import whales and dolphins.
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October 10, 2025
Partners: Stabbing back in the law firm
I liked some of my old law firm partners all of the time; most of my partners most of the time; and one or two, almost never. I suspect that my partners, as a group, had similar sentiments about me.
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October 09, 2025
New federal Bill C-12 features immigration reforms carved out from contentious ‘strong borders’ bill
The federal government has removed about half of its controversial 140-page omnibus “strong borders” bill (C-2) and inserted excised measures into a newly introduced 70-page “immigration and borders” bill (C-12), which proposes many of the same immigration changes that critics had called on Ottawa to scrap.
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October 09, 2025
From the Coach: How do you identify potential successors in law firms?
Law firm succession planning is a critical process that ensures the continuity and stability of a firm when leadership changes occur. Identifying potential successors is not merely about finding capable attorneys; it is about recognizing future leaders who can uphold the firm’s values and drive it forward.
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October 09, 2025
Lippes Mathias names Brian Bocketti chief growth officer
Lippes Mathias LLP has announced that partner and executive committee member Brian J. Bocketti has been appointed chief growth officer.
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October 09, 2025
Roper Greyell adds Kailey Hubele, promotes Jordan Michaux
Roper Greyell has announced the addition of Kailey Hubele to the firm, as well as Jordan Michaux’s appointment to associate counsel.
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October 09, 2025
Theme of World Day Against Death Penalty 2025: Use of death penalty as tool to oppress
This Friday marks the 23rd World Day Against the Death Penalty. On this day, abolitionists around the world call on governments that retain the practice to abolish capital punishment. We also use the day to draw attention to individual cases of those facing execution and plead for clemency, commutation or a reconsideration of the case altogether. A theme this year in the cases we are highlighting is the use of the death penalty as a tool to oppress.
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October 08, 2025
Fraser calls provinces’ demand to scrap Ottawa’s SCC arguments on notwithstanding clause ‘untenable’
Attorney General of Canada Sean Fraser has pushed back against the demands of five premiers that Ottawa should drop its novel arguments at the Supreme Court that there are substantive constraints on governments’ powers to invoke the Charter’s s. 33 “notwithstanding” clause — arguments that those five provinces contend “represent a complete disavowal of the constitutional bargain that brought the Charter into being” in 1982.