A New Year’s ‘Resolution’ for Display Screens
There hasn’t been much reason to upgrade the screens we look at in recent years. Our consumer attention has been fixated on mobile technology, and there haven’t been any real “game changing” reasons to...
View ArticleTM Holders Should Consider the Trademark Clearinghouse
With the first seven top-level domains going live on January 29th, and more new TLD domains becoming available each week throughout 2014, trade-mark holders may wish to grab some protection through...
View ArticleGoogle’s New Map Gallery
Check out Google’s new Map Gallery. Sourced from various governments, nonprofits, and businesses, this newly launched service works as a jumping off point to locate historical and resource-based map...
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Are New gTLD Domains an Opportunity for Law Firms?
With so many new gTLDs (“generic Top Level Domains”) coming online this year, I thought it might be worth exploring their value and potential use in law firm marketing. The simplest example of a gTLD,...
View ArticleWhat Makes Lawyers Happy?
I came across a new research paper today via SSRN titled, “What Makes Lawyers Happy? Transcending the Anecdotes with Data from 6200 Lawyers“. The legal profession has done a much better job of...
View ArticleFacial Recognition Software: As Good as Your Brain
In case you needed another reason to get paranoid about your growing loss of privacy, Facebook has now successfully developed facial recognition software that performs to the same standard as the human...
View ArticleClio Secures $20M Funding Round
A note of congratulations to fellow Slaw contributor Jack Newton, whose company Clio has successfully secured a C Series funding round; led by Bessemer Venture Partners and valued at $20M. Launched...
View ArticleSleep Deprived and Proud of It
Law firms and sleep deprivation seem to go together. So when The Atlantic needed a real world example to lead off their piece on the topic, guess which profession was front and centre? And the...
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Slaw Welcomes Yves Faguy
I’m pleased to welcome Yves Faguy as a new blogger to Slaw. Yves will be joining our Thursday group of writers. You may recognize Yves as the Senior and online editor of National Magazine, where he has...
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Google’s New Video Quality Report Tool
Google’s new Video Quality Report tool allows you to compare video streaming capabilities between local ISPs. By viewing this report, either at home or at work, you are able to see when the prime video...
View ArticleLaw Firm Retreats: They Can Be Small. They Can Be Anywhere.
Though we covered it in our Tips Tuesday roundup post a few days ago, I’d like to call your attention to an exceptional piece by Garry Wise on his upcoming Law Office Backyard Retreat. What struck me...
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Slaw Welcomes Nate Russell
I’m pleased to welcome our newest blogger at Slaw, Nate Russell. Nate will be joining our Monday team of writers. For those of us stationed on the west coast, you may already recognize Nate as the...
View ArticleFinal CBA Futures Report Is Now Available
2 years in the making. 7 key findings. 22 recommended actions. Those are the numbers behind the CBA’s Futures: Transforming the Delivery of Legal Services in Canada report, released today. The...
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Slaw Founder Simon Fodden Wins 2014 CBA President’s Award
The Slaw community will be very pleased to learn that our Founder Simon Fodden has been honoured as a co-recipient of this year’s CBA President’s Award, along with former MP, Irwin Cotler. From the...
View ArticleClio Conference More Than Food Trucks and Yoga
When my company started working with Clio back in 2008, I had a gut feeling they were onto something. But frankly, I never would have predicted the immense success this cloud-based software start-up...
View ArticleAlternative Business Structures and Access to Justice … for Whom?
The Canadian legal profession is currently engaged in a much-needed debate about the future of legal services in general and whether to allow the use of so-called alternative business structures (ABSs)...
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Clio Announces “Next” UI at User Conference
For many legal software companies, major announcements and product enhancements have traditionally been saved up for release at ABA Techshow or LTNY. But with the advent of their own user conference...
View Article11th Annual UVic Law Student Technology Survey
You have to admire Rich McCue’s curiosity and generosity. For the 11th year, the UVic educational technologist and systems administrator has surveyed the law school’s incoming students on their...
View ArticleOsgoode Digital Commons
This announcement from Louis Mirando was posted via the CALL listserv earlier today: The Osgoode Hall Law School Library is pleased to announce the official launch of the Osgoode Digital Commons...
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Summaries Sunday: Maritime Law Book
Summaries of selected recent cases are provided each week to Slaw by Maritime Law Book. Every Sunday we present a precis of the latest summaries, a fuller version of which can be found on MLB-Slaw...
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2014 Clawbies Announced
In case we missed you on New Year’s Eve, the 9th annual Canadian Law Blog Awards (aka the ‘Clawbies’) were announced. This year’s Fodden Award winner for the top overall Canadian blawg went to Double...
View ArticleData Visualization With CartoDB
No matter where you live in Vancouver, odds are pretty good there’s a dog nearby with the name Charlie. How do I know this random tidbit? It’s thanks to CartoDB, a (mostly) free cloud-based mapping...
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New Blog for Legal Education Micro-Charity CLEW
You may remember a guest column posted a few months ago here on Slaw written by John Claydon, titled Canadian lawyers making a difference in Cambodia. In it, John describes how a five-lawyer Toronto...
View ArticleRecommind to Host Canadian eDiscovery Socials
As you can see from the latest banner on the top of Slaw, Recommind Inc. is set to host a series of eDiscovery Socials in June. The company has arranged for three of their senior thinkers to come to...
View ArticleCanLII Names Beauchamp-Tremblay as New President
CanLII has announced Xavier Beauchamp-Tremblay as its new President. Announcement copy below: The Canadian Legal Information Institute (CanLII) and the Federation of Law Societies of Canada are pleased...
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Dianne Saxe Appointed Environmental Commissioner of Ontario
On behalf of the Slaw community, we congratulate our colleague Dianne Saxe on her appointment as Environmental Commissioner of Ontario. Her new role takes effect on December 1st, 2015. As one of...
View ArticleWelcome to Our New Slaw Tips Contributors
You may have noticed that there have been a few new faces (well, names, really) over on our companion site, Slaw Tips. For the unfamiliar, Slaw Tips is where a few select members of our contributor...
View ArticleThe Clawbies Turn 10
The 10th annual Canadian Law Blog Awards is now officially open for business! It’s hard to believe that ten years has passed since I first scribbled down a list of my favourite law blogs (probably on...
View ArticleSpare 5 Minutes for Slaw?
Dear Slaw reader, As you may have noticed from the banner at the top of our homepage, we’ve just launched our first-ever reader survey (hard to believe Slaw has been up and running for over 10 years...
View Article“Canadian International Lawyer” Call for Papers
Canadian International Lawyer, a journal published bi-annually by the Canadian Bar Association’s international law section, has put out a call for papers for its Volume 11(2). CIL welcomes submissions...
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