June 16, 2026
For decades, law firm owners have operated under an unspoken but deeply ingrained assumption: that growth requires sacrifice. You can have quality or volume. You can invest in talent or technology. You can serve existing clients or pursue new ones. You can build a profitable practice or a fulfilling one.
June 16, 2026
Hicks Morley has added Isabel de Wolde in Toronto and Jessica DeForest in Waterloo as associates.
June 16, 2026
“You don’t go to prison to make friends” is one of the aphorisms new prisoners often hear. Connections with other people are fundamental to human life; we all need meaningful relationships with others. There’s lots of evidence that a lack of human connection is bad for our physical and mental health. But human connection takes on a very different form when you are in prison.
June 15, 2026
The Federal Court has explained why two years ago it secretly issued the first cyber “threat reduction measures warrant” to enable the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) to protect domestic critical infrastructure and reduce the threat from two unnamed “foreign adversaries” that had infected with malware certain Canadian servers, small office or home office routers and “Internet of Things” devices (such as Ring video doorbells, security cameras, televisions and other Wi-Fi-enabled appliances).
June 15, 2026
The Government of British Columbia has appointed Matthew Stacey and Jason LeBlond to provincial courts in Port Coquitlam and Prince George, respectively. The appointments will be effective as of July 13, 2026.
June 15, 2026
Law360 Canada is seeking participants for an anonymous survey on career and life satisfaction in the legal profession.
June 15, 2026
From Prime Minister Mark Carney’s office comes the announcement that Daniel Boone has been appointed the new chief justice for Newfoundland and Labrador. Justice Boone, who is a judge of the Newfoundland and Labrador Court of Appeal, will replace former justice Deborah E. Fry, who retired on Feb. 12, 2026.
June 15, 2026
“I'm so old, I don't buy green bananas anymore.” ~ Lou Holtz, American college football coach.
June 12, 2026
In a novel and potentially far-reaching constitutional judgment, the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled 6-3 that the 2019 appointment of a unilingual lieutenant-governor in Canada’s only officially bilingual province infringed the Charter’s s. 16(2) linguistic protections for New Brunswick’s francophone minority.
June 12, 2026
This week’s brief highlights a selection of Law360 Canada’s top stories, along with details on how lawyers can take part in our annual satisfaction survey examining financial, physical and mental well-being across the profession.