I am hiring! My class action/mass tort team is looking for an assistant and law clerk to join our growing practice. Wfh flex + v unique files - not your run of the mill personal injury work, I promise! CVs can be sent to me directly [email protected]. Plz consider sharing 🙏🏻
Two of my fav things: 1) sharing knowledge for the greater good, and 2) when brilliant people distill complicated frameworks into palatable and digestible guides that save me from hours of research. Thanks team!
Canada’s leading litigation firm releases its first Public Law in Canada guide! Find everything you need to know about public inquiries: guiding principles, governing legislation, process and parties, and commentary on the recent inquiries in Ontario. – https://t.co/UJeukIcPM1
Best of luck to our 2021 #SummerStudents, @madeleineag2 and @MilitzaBoljevic, who are mooting against each other before former SCC Justice Rosalie Abella and current SCC Justices Andromache Karakatsanis and Mahmud Jamal today! The moot begins at 5:10 PM: https://t.co/PfrkINSPkj
@LkmThompson Most didn’t vote for Kevin Vuong, they strategically voted for a faceless liberal candidate in a historically lib riding to secure the seat. The delusion.
Tom’s Tuesday Trial Tip:
Often your best witness is your opponent’s client.
There are three ways to get that witness into the box:
- Read-ins;
- A notice of intention to call the witness;
- Calling evidence that compels the witness to testify to answer the case.
#TTTT
Don’t miss @JennPower5 at tomorrow morning’s @OBAlawyers call-in session where she’ll discuss the significant decision in Florence v Benzaquen. Find more details here: https://t.co/ZnsseKmix8
Join @JennPower5 at the upcoming @OBAlawyers monthly call-in session as she discusses the significant decision in Florence v Benzaquen. – https://t.co/ZnsseKmix8
Ceviche, croquettes, reverse mentorship, and a lot of laughs. Thanks to my star summer student mentee @madeleineag2 for a lovely lunch, and thanks @LencznerSlaght for bringing us together!
Getting thrown into any trial is a challenge. Getting thrown into a 6-week virtual trial in a decade old fraud case in the middle of a global pandemic is something no law student has ever done. @madeleineag2 is now the leading authority on how to face that challenge and ace it.
#ReferToHer expands with the addition of a new list of experienced female lawyers to whom you can confidently refer work! Visit https://t.co/TR1TdbEKYM to view the Construction & Infrastructure Litigation list and join us in balancing the scales on referrals.
Are you a law student considering a career in advocacy? Want to know what it’s like to work at Canada’s leading litigation firm? Join us at our Virtual Open House on July 21! Register here: https://t.co/cuREEAdFeL
For her concrete advancement of virtual advocacy, innovation, and gender equity in the legal profession, @sanahalwani has been nominated for @CanLawMag’s Top 25 Most Influential Lawyers! Voting is now open: https://t.co/iA0Zqqiggk
Public service announcement: You can’t refute evidence with opinions.
When you disagree with data, you have 3 options:
1. Find better data
2. Identify limitations of the existing data
3. Consider the possibility that you were wrong, and have the humility & integrity to admit it
In the Navy, we’d have ice cream sundaes on ship in the middle of a long sail to boost our spirits (in WWII, “ice cream barges” might sail by)...I’ll now happily settle for allergy-friendly local cookies delivered to my door. Thanks @LencznerSlaght - morale boosted!