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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]
3 Jun 2020, 4:00 am
In his February 2020 Slaw column, Noel Semple surveyed several potential regulatory responses. [read post]
22 Aug 2021, 9:19 am
This is as true for global corporations as it is for ordinary individuals…” Noel Semple in Legal Services Regulations at the Crossroads Despite understandable discomfort with the growing expense of lawyers, now more than ever, clients require expert legal guidance (which, in theory, need not come in the form of lawyer-delivered services but, in practice, still largely does). [read post]
5 Jul 2017, 4:00 am
In theory, contingent fee pricing is an elegant way of providing access to justice at a fair and reasonable price. [read post]
6 Dec 2016, 4:00 am
See University of Windsor, Canada, law Professor Noel Semple’s book, “Legal Services Regulation at the Cross Roads: Justitia’s Legions” (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2015). [read post]
14 Jan 2021, 4:00 am
This is my first legal ethics column for Slaw. [read post]
21 Dec 2017, 4:00 am
Lawyers remain the passive victims of the benchers[1] that we ourselves elected to be the law societies’ managers, instead of demanding that they get busy solving the problem of unaffordable legal services (“the problem”). [read post]
6 Jan 2021, 4:00 am
Collaborative practice is a dispute resolution process that is primarily used in family law, and it is currently unregulated in Canada. [read post]
29 May 2017, 4:00 am
The longstanding massive damage and misery being caused by the unaffordable legal services problem (the “accesses to justice” (A2J) problem) compels this conclusion: the problems of law societies are now such that they need an agency that performs a civil service function—one to serve all of Canada’s law societies. [read post]
4 Oct 2016, 6:09 am
Law professor Noel Semple puts it very well: “A regulator ending the LPP because it’s perceived as second-tier to articling is like a regulator banning Chevrolets because they are perceived as second tier to Cadillacs. [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]
1 Jan 2023, 12:58 pm
Winter is coming and many legal departments will be left in the cold. [read post]
18 Mar 2021, 4:00 am
In February, it was reported that the UK’s Legal Services Board was moving forward with plans to introduce “continuing competence checks” for lawyers. [read post]
3 Sep 2020, 4:00 am
Periodically on Thursdays, we present a significant excerpt, usually from a recently published book or journal article. [read post]
16 Dec 2019, 4:00 am
On October 25 & 26, Windsor Law proudly hosted the 2019 conference of the Canadian Association for Legal Ethics. [read post]
