A career as a lawyer is an extraordinary calling, and to become a lawyer is an enormous undertaking in terms of personal commitment and financial investment. So why do we become lawyers? “A good many reasons why we became lawyers can be seen every day in [our society]: When people get on a bus and…
Having a strong litigation bar that has the knowledge and desire to take on appropriate cases and see them through to their resolution is critical to clients, and critical to the vitality of our dispute resolution system of justice. Understanding not only the pressures and responsibilities that arise in the trial context, but also how…
Mandatory arbitration clauses often appear as pre-dispute provisions in standard form contracts and generally are not negotiable by consumers. From a public policy perspective, the question is whether powerful corporations should be permitted to be able to force individual citizens, with limited financial and legal resources, to submit to mandatory arbitration after a dispute arises…
Don’t do anything that wouldn’t make your Mom proud. Take good care of those you love. Be bold and courageous. When you look back on your life, you’ll regret the things you didn’t do more than the ones you did. Stop blaming others. Take responsibility for every area of your life. Be decisive even if…
Trial or Courtroom advocacy is that field concerned with making trial lawyers more effective in trial proceedings and administrative hearings. Simply put, trial advocacy is the ability for a trial lawyer to exhibit the essential skills in advocating for their clients in civil and criminal courtrooms, and before administrative tribunals. To be clear and convincing…
5. “We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians.” – Warren E. Burger 4. “You never know with juries. I’d take a judge every time, unless of course I was guilty.” – Kenneth Eade, Unreasonable Force 3. “This…
5. Defamation, Privacy, and Accuracy of Information– The best independent journalism projects and bloggers share work that shines a light onto the practices of the most powerful individuals, businesses and governments in our world. But shining this light requires being accurate with the information that is published online, and compliance with a web of provincial,…
Global inequality is growing. The richest 1% of the world’s population now own 50% of its total wealth in U.S. dollars, according to an October 2015 Global Wealth Report by Credit Suisse.[1] Oxfam International reported in January 2016 that 62 individuals have the same wealth as the poorest 3.6 billion people in the world. The World…
