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27 Jul 2018, 4:00 am
Ensuring the baseline competence of licensees to practice law is job #1, as Malcolm Mercer explains. [read post]
9 Jul 2018, 4:00 am
Courts emphasize the law societies’ broad discretion to determine what the public interest requires in governing the profession and, accordingly, defer to the law societies’ exercise of that discretion (See Malcolm Mercer’s analysis of this on slaw.ca). [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]
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]
5 Feb 2018, 4:00 am
As I warned my conversant, and as I’ll warn you, I’m a complete amateur when it comes to legal ethics, and I fully expect to be schooled by Alice Woolley or Malcolm Mercer for the elementary errors I’m about to make. [read post]
30 Nov 2017, 4:00 am
Also in the 1970s: “violent opposition” on the part of the Law Society of Upper Canada to the opening of legal aid clinics in Ontario (see Malcolm Mercer’s discussion of this in Slaw here). [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]
2 Feb 2017, 9:26 am
Shannon Togawa Mercer reported that the “Brexecution” can begin now that the British Parliament has voted to give Prime Minister Theresa May power to invoke Article 50. [read post]
31 Jan 2017, 1:51 pm
Mercer ) converted a discipline proceeding into an invitation... [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]
7 Sep 2016, 1:19 pm
Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is expected to discuss the threat of terrorism at the ASEAN summit in Laos, the BBC writes. [read post]
22 Jan 2016, 4:00 am
In a letter submitted in response to this request, myself, along with fellow legal ethics Slaw columnists, Adam Dodek, Alice Woolley, and Malcolm Mercer, along with Brent Cotter, submitted that the OSC should not include in-house counsel in its proposed whistleblowing policy for reasons including those outlined here. [read post]
10 Nov 2015, 4:00 am
. ___________________________________ [i] Susan McGrath, Malcolm Mercer, Constance Backhouse, Marion Boyd, Ross Earnshaw, Carol Hartman, Jacqueline Horvat, Brian Lawrie, Jeffrey Lem, Jan Richardson, Alan Silverstein and Peter Wardle [read post]
30 Apr 2015, 4:00 am
Human beings are always influenced by our own interests; even when we try not to be, our cognitive biases and weaknesses make true abandonment of self-interest impossible (as Malcolm Mercer discussed on SLAW, here). [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]
9 Feb 2015, 6:25 am
Deb Mell Hit with Complaint over Free Rent Provided by Dad Dick Mell” by Ted Cox for DNAinfo.com Montana: “Bullock, Ankney Outline Campaign Finance Reform Bill” by Charles Johnson for Montana Standard Utah: “Politicians May Be Giving Contributions to Charity in the Future” by Amy McDonald for Provo Daily Herald Ethics Arkansas: “Lawmakers Favor Expanded Ethics Panel” by Michael Wickline for ArkansasOnline.com Hawaii: “Hawaii Ethics Commission Fines… [read post]
30 Jan 2015, 4:00 am
Both Malcolm Mercer and Mitch Kowalski have weighed in, here on Slaw, on these issues. [read post]
22 Jan 2015, 6:23 am
” Mercer asked. [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]
