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October 15, 2026
Miller Thomson LLP has announced its acquisition of Mogan Daniels Slager LLP (MDS), a Vancouver-based boutique law firm focused on private company mergers and acquisitions and private equity. MDS’s 11 lawyers are expected to join Miller Thomson in early November.
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October 15, 2026
Kelly Kim has joined Lenczner Slaght as counsel, adding to the firm’s health law practice.
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October 15, 2026
Imagine a Canadian bank restoring AI-assisted customer service after its technology provider suffers an outage. Customers can use the service again, but a disputed transaction remains unexplained. The provider holds the incident logs, the bank has only the final output, and their contract says little about access during a disagreement. Operational recovery has succeeded. Establishing what happened, and who should bear the loss, may take considerably longer.
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October 15, 2026
The Alberta Court of Appeal has partially allowed Christopher John Barron’s sentence appeal, reducing his global sentence after finding that the sentencing judge had punished him twice for the same conduct (R. v. Barron, 2026 ABCA 270).
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October 14, 2026
Alexander Holburn Beaudin + Lang LLP (Alexander Holburn) has launched a family law group in Vancouver with the addition of partners Jane Reid and Rosemary Gallo.
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October 14, 2026
Laura Harrison has joined Aird & Berlis as an associate and member of the firm’s financial services group.
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October 14, 2026
Megan Pratt-Ahmad has joined Harper Grey as an associate in its health law and construction law groups.
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October 13, 2026
Only two women applied for the latest Supreme Court of Canada vacancy, filled by Manitoba’s Glenn Joyal, whose appointment last June restored a 5-4 male majority, ending the high court’s first female majority on the top bench.
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October 13, 2026
Dentons Canada has added a 10-lawyer employment and labour team in Toronto led by partners Richard J. Charney, John Mastoras and Daniel McDonald.
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October 13, 2026
DLA Piper has welcomed Toronto-based lawyer Lara Nathans as global co-head of its consumer goods, food and retail sector.
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October 09, 2026
Federal Justice Minister Sean Fraser has announced the appointment of Justice Thomas Rothwell to the Court of Appeal of Alberta and Malcolm M. Lavoie to the Court of King’s Bench.
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October 09, 2026
Federal Justice Minister Sean Fraser has announced the appointment of Paul J. Mongenais and Peter D. Ruby to the Ontario Superior Court of Justice.
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October 09, 2026
For lawyers, some issues extend beyond protecting rights and freedoms. A core concern is the risk of letting a rigid rule determine an outcome before examining the matter’s substance.
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October 08, 2026
Under the rubric of supporting “economic growth and competitiveness,” the federal Liberal government says its newly introduced “red tape reduction” bill (S-7) will “reduce unnecessary regulatory burden under 31 individual pieces of legislation and their corresponding regulations administered by 11 federal departments and agencies.”
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October 08, 2026
British Columbia Chief Judge Melissa Gillespie has announced the appointment of Matthew Turnell, Manpreet Mand and David Jenkins as provincial court judges.
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October 08, 2026
Megan Walwyn has joined McEwan Partners as an associate in Vancouver.
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October 08, 2026
WeirFoulds LLP has welcomed Valentine Gurfinkel and Jill Snelgrove as partners in its tax and construction practice groups.
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October 08, 2026
Speech about Israel and Zionism can become antisemitic without treating opposition to Zionism as inherently antisemitic. In that respect, the Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism and the Nexus Document offer a more legally workable approach. They do not attempt to settle contested questions about Zionism in advance. Instead, they leave room to examine what was actually said, whom it targeted and the context in which it occurred.
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October 08, 2026
The legal profession does not need another reminder that lawyers are stressed. The more useful question is what, realistically, can be changed.
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October 07, 2026
Federal Justice Minister Sean Fraser says the Liberal majority government will introduce “in weeks” groundbreaking legislation to permit persons with serious medical conditions to consent in advance to medical assistance in dying (MAID), i.e. before they lose their capacity to consent to the procedure. The planned bill would also bar MAID access on an “indeterminate basis” to persons whose sole underlying medical condition is a mental illness, he said.
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October 07, 2026
Kevin Smith has joined the partnership at McEwan Partners in Vancouver.
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October 07, 2026
Hannah L. Siegmund has joined Harper Grey as an associate in its health law and personal injury groups in Vancouver.
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October 07, 2026
Scarfone Hawkins LLP has welcomed James Price, Reilly McIlhone, Tania Robinson and Andrew Spelman as associate lawyers in its Hamilton office.
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October 07, 2026
Most of the strongest legal candidates I speak with are not looking for a new job.
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October 07, 2026
Courts have confronted the problem of anti-Zionism vs. antisemitism.