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1 Sep 2022, 4:00 am
In the movie Marriage Story, Nicole (Scarlett Johansson) and Charlie (Adam Driver) are divorcing. [read post]
17 Aug 2021, 4:00 am
One of my favorite jokes involves a visitor lost in rural Scotland. [read post]
3 May 2021, 4:00 am
On April 22, 2021, the Law Society of Ontario approved a “Regulatory Sandbox for Innovative Technological Legal Services”, a five-year pilot project through which non-licensee providers will be given the LSO’s blessing to provide “innovative technological legal services” directly to consumers, under the LSO’s supervision. [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]
22 Oct 2020, 4:00 am
[The content of this article is closely related to four of my previous posts on Slaw, dated: July 25, 2019; April 9, 2020; May 29, 2020; and, August 6, 2020. [read post]
6 Aug 2020, 4:00 am
[See the full text of this article on the SSRN. [read post]
29 May 2020, 4:00 am
[v] But, to contrary appearances, on February 27, 2020, the Law Society of Ontario (LSO) released its Priority Planning Committee’s Strategic Plan (LSO’s Treasurer (“President” in other provinces), Malcolm Mercer, being the Chair of the Committee). [read post]
24 Apr 2020, 4:00 am
There is no provision in the Model Code that specifically regulates non-adversarial advocacy. [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]
26 Feb 2020, 4:00 am
(For a fantastic overview of their respective histories and their differences, see Malcolm Mercer’s Slaw post here.) [read post]
26 Sep 2019, 4:00 am
In spite of the duties set out in s. 4.2, in a Comment dated July 27th, in response to one of my Slaw articles,[2] LSO’s Treasurer and CEO, Malcolm Mercer, stated: The role of the Law Society is not to “deliver access to justice. [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]
26 Apr 2019, 4:00 am
— Malcolm Mercer [read post]
18 Apr 2019, 4:00 am
Workers in other sectors expect to have similar wage gains, which means that the products they produce become more expensive relative to the products that experienced those gains (Malcolm Mercer has also written about cost disease in Slaw here: “Cost Disease, the Practice of Law and Access to Justice” in November 2017). [read post]
22 Mar 2019, 4:00 am
As noted by Malcolm Mercer, It should be clearly understood that the most important variable in the PRISM Report is the projected expansionary demand. [read post]
23 Jan 2019, 4:00 am
LSO’s Treasurer, Malcolm Mercer, wrote this recent, revealing post: “What Is the Mandate of the Law Society? [read post]
14 Dec 2018, 4:00 am
Giving People Other Ways to Decide Malcolm Mercer has observed that mass-market legal advertising works, in part, because clients lack good information about the respective merits of law firms. [read post]
28 Nov 2018, 4:00 am
[See the full text article for this summary on the SSRN, using the same title] Law societies are not trying to solve the A2J problem, but instead provide “alternative legal services”[1] that merely help that majority of the population that cannot afford legal services learn to live with the problem. [read post]
19 Oct 2018, 4:00 am
Opening remarks will be provided by Malcolm Mercer, Treasurer of the Law Society of Ontario, followed by an innovation showcase which will demonstrate how community-driven work can increase awareness and accessibility for the public. [read post]
18 Oct 2018, 4:00 am
The Law Society is currently consulting on several different options for its lawyer licensing process (my fellow legal ethics co-columnists Noel Semple and Malcolm Mercer have written recently in Slaw about this consultation – here and here). [read post]
