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DLA Piper adds Jerónimo Zabala as foreign legal consultant

DLA Piper (Canada) LLP has announced that Jerónimo Zabala has joined its Toronto office as a foreign legal consultant.

Even in civil cases, court is no place for chickens

Do judges remember what it was like to be a lawyer?

In the case of Comeau v. Fox, 2025 ONSC 4318, Justice Alex Pazaratz did not mince words about lawyers who do not go on the record in a court matter.

Who do you want to be in the legal profession?

There was once a mid-sized law firm that wanted to develop a specialty in a niche area of litigation.

Adina Georgescu joins BLG as partner in EMER group

Borden Ladner Gervais LLP (BLG) has announced that Adina Georgescu has joined the firm at its Montreal office as partner in its environmental, municipal, expropriation and regulatory (EMER) group.

Hicks Morley adds 6 new associates

Hicks Morley has welcomed six new associates to its Toronto office. According to the firm’s announcement, the lawyers include:

New non-profit targets bias, quick-conviction mindset that leads to wrongful convictions

Canada’s justice system has a problem it prefers not to talk about: wrongful convictions. They are not rare accidents. They are predictable failures — born of tunnel vision, systemic bias and a culture that prizes quick convictions over careful truth-seeking. Each wrongful conviction is not just a legal error; it is a moral catastrophe that destroys lives and undermines faith in the courts.

Calgary lawyer disbarred for spying on judge; civil liberties group cries foul

A national civil liberties group is accusing Alberta’s law society of using “a vindictive and petty abuse of process” to disbar the group’s president, who landed in hot water for hiring a private investigator to spy on a senior judge in another province.

Canada cuts its Russian oil price cap to reduce funds for Russia’s war on Ukraine

Ottawa’s reduction of the price cap it imposes on seaborne Russian-origin crude oil recently came into force, as part of coordinated efforts by Canada, the European Union and the United Kingdom to impede the financing of Russia’s illegal all-out war against Ukraine.

Patricia Blair to lead CBABC as 2025-26 president

The Canadian Bar Association, B.C. Branch (CBABC) has announced Patricia Blair as president for the 2025-2026 membership term.