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5 Jun 2014, 3:00 pm
Malcolm Mercer, the GC at McCarthy Tétrault, resident in their Toronto office, will be contributing here from time to time. [read post]
3 Jul 2018, 12:42 pm
A short note of congratulations to our Slaw colleague Malcolm Mercer who was elected June 28th as Treasurer of the Law Society of Ontario. [read post]
27 Jun 2018, 5:00 pm
Making sure that lawyers and paralegals are meeting entry-level competency requirements will be a key role of the law society under new treasurer Malcolm Mercer. [read post]
4 Aug 2014, 1:33 pm
” Malcolm Mercer Partner and general counsel, McCarthy Tétrault LLP, Toronto Mercer is leading the charge for alternative business structures in the legal profession. [read post]
7 Nov 2014, 7:47 am
Malcolm Mercer, who’s been a driving force in the debate around legal service regulation changes in Canada, wrote a terrific post at Slaw titled “A Different Take on ABS – Proponents and Opponents Both Miss the Point. [read post]
31 Jan 2017, 1:51 pm
Mercer ) converted a discipline proceeding into an invitation... [read post]
4 Oct 2011, 10:45 am
Hit tip to Malcolm Mercer, Partner and General Counsel at McCarthy Tétrault, for pointing us to this interesting Canadian disqualification decision from the Court of Appeal for Saskatchewan (See: Wallace v. [read post]
3 Jan 2013, 9:42 am
Malcolm Mercer, Tom Harrison, and Richard Devlin, as always, expanded and enriched the discussion. [read post]
13 Dec 2016, 4:00 am
In a recent Slaw blog, Malcolm Mercer thoughtfully explores how information asymmetry between legal service providers and consumers may impact access to justice. [read post]
17 Oct 2013, 10:12 am
Kudos to Benchers, Susan McGrath and Malcolm Mercer for organizing the event. [read post]
9 Apr 2020, 4:00 am
[see the full text on the SSRN (updated in March, 2020)] The comment of the Treasurer of the Law Society of Ontario (Malcolm Mercer, its CEO) responding to my first article having the above same title, published in Slaw, on July 25, 2019, contains the following objections: 1. [read post]
14 Jan 2021, 4:00 am
I am delighted and honoured to be taking the place of my former colleague, mentor, and all-around legal ethics and regulation rock star, Malcolm Mercer, who recently assumed the role of Chair of Ontario’s Law Society Tribunal. [read post]
5 Aug 2014, 4:00 am
As Malcolm Mercer has argued in his recent Slaw column: “If we cannot find ways to effectively have regulated lawyers, paralegals or alternative providers deliver legal services in some areas, there can be no justification for prohibiting anyone but licensees from servicing those areas. [read post]
20 Feb 2015, 10:13 am
The company’s lawyer was copied on that e-mail.The test for solicitor-client privilege includes establishing whether first, there is a communication, and second, whether that communication was intended to be confidential, requirements that are often fairly easy to establish, according to McCarthy Tétrault LLP partner Malcolm Mercer. [read post]
22 Jan 2015, 6:23 am
” Mercer asked. [read post]
23 Jan 2013, 12:37 pm
Neil, when former justice Ian Binnie wrote that in general “a lawyer may not represent one client whose interests are directly adverse to the immediate interests of another current client” even if the two mandates are unrelated, unless both clients consent after receiving full disclosure.But counsel for the the CBA, Malcolm Mercer, says the rule should only apply where there is a substantial risk of prejudice to the lawyer’s former client. [read post]
11 Aug 2017, 4:00 am
The market for personal plight legal services functions poorly, as Malcolm Mercer and Amy Salyzyn have shown in this space. [read post]
6 Sep 2019, 4:01 am
In the Law Times article “Diversity and inclusion fundamental to the OBA” (July 3, 2019), Law Society of Ontario Treasurer Malcolm Mercer said that the Statement of Principles “genuinely divides” people in the profession. [read post]
19 Nov 2012, 6:39 am
Sue Grundy (Blake, Cassels & Graydon) and Malcolm Mercer (McCarthy Tétrault) shared some of the progress on those fronts. [read post]
25 Jun 2018, 7:12 am
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of June 25, 2018 from Wise Law on Twitter: Proposed class-action lawsuits filed against Bank of Montreal, CIBC’s Simplii over security breachesJudge Rejects Kansas Law Requiring Voters to Show Proof of CitizenshipJudge strikes down Kansas voter ID law and orders Kris Kobach to take additional CLE 600+ members of Sessions' church charge him with violating church rulesImmigrants illegally entering the country experience… [read post]
