Professor Naiomi Metallic, divides her time between practice and teaching at Dalhousie University’s Schulich School of Law where she holds the Chancellor’s Chair in Aboriginal Law and Policy. She was part of the legal team that intervened on behalf of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society led by Cindy Blackstock, a longtime advocate for child welfare and Indigenous children’s rights. The SCC referenced Prof. Metallic’s article, Aboriginal Rights, Legislative Reconciliation and Constitutionalism (dal.ca) , in their Reference re An Act respecting First Nations, Inuit and Métis children, youth and families, and she is this year’s winner of the CBA’s Ramon John Hnatyshyn Award for Law.

Also mentioned in this episode: 

Supreme Court of Canada - SCC Case Information - Summary - 40619 (scc-csc.ca)

Judicial Workbook on Bill C-92 — An Act Respecting First Nations, Inuit and Métis Children, Youth and Families (dal.ca)

Supreme Court of Canada - SCC Case Information - Parties - 39856 (scc-csc.ca)

Braiding Legal Orders | McGill-Queen’s University Press (mqup.ca)

We highly recommend The Path: 

Canadian Bar Association - Understanding the Truth and Engaging in Reconciliation (cba.org)

Reach out to us anytime at podcasts@cba.org

Professor François Larocque, holder of the first Canadian Francophonie Research Chair in Language Rights since 2018, is one of Canada’s top experts on language rights and is currently involved in litigation aimed at solving this issue once and for all.

The French version of this episode is available here: Canadian Bar Association - Juriste branché (cba.org).

Constitution bilingue / Bilingual Constitution (youtube.com)

Very collegial.

Julia welcomes an ad hoc panel of pan northern practitioners and active CBA members to The Every Lawyer:

Leeland Hawkings was born and raised in Whitehorse, where he now works as legal counsel with the Yukon government; he is also the current vice president of the Yukon branch of the CBA.

Paulina Ross left her home in Yellowknife to do her JD and a Masters Degree in environmental science. She has now returned and is currently the only articling student in the Northwest Territories. 

Eric Cheng is our big city litigator who answered the call and is now with the Nunavut Prosecution Service, providing access to justice for people living in some of the most remote communities in the world.

It's no surprise to anyone that there is a shortage of skills in the North, but it may surprise you just how much opportunity there is for career growth for legal professionals. You may have to bring your own mason jars.

This conversation was recorded on May 30th, 2024.

Further listening:  The Place That Thaws - Podcast | APTN News

Write to us at podcasts@cba.org

Hosted  by Julia Tétrault-Provencher and featuring:

Emily Murray Luke’s Place, legal office with social and health support workers on site, specialised on the needs of survivors of intimate partner violence. People centered approach.

Amy Slotek on her work as an embedded lawyer at a downtown Toronto mental health agency working with the homeless. Picking people up where they are.

Michele Leering on Community Lawyers, Outreach, A2J in legal education and reflective practice. 

Ida Bianchi on how lack of access to all types of services, not only legal, often causes and then perpetuates people’s involvement with criminal and family justice systems.

Ab Currie on the uneven but steady march of progress on improving access to justice, the interplay between legal and non-legal problems, how these tend to cluster and feed off of one another, and that the legal profession is finally coming to realise more fully that you simply can’t solve one without solving the other.

Lisa Moore on Crossing Boundaries: Exploring Multi-Disciplinary Models for Legal Problem Resolution (2024). Lisa was the lead researcher and author and is also the director of the CFCJ.

Home - Luke's Place (lukesplace.ca)

Embedded Lawyer Program: 2022-23 annual report (legalaid.on.ca)

Home - CALC (communitylegalcentre.ca)       

Michele Leering | Queen's Law (queensu.ca)

JUST13_Bio_Currie.pdf (cba.org)         

Crossing boundaries: Exploring multi-disciplinary models for legal problem resolution (cfcj-fcjc.org)

Julia welcomes Christine Kilby from the CBA Dispute Resolution Section. Christine and Julia introduce us to masters of mediation: Joy Noonan, Esther Omam, Mina Vaish and Archana Medhekar. Sponsored by the CBA Dispute Resolution Section: "Alternative" Dispute Resolution has never been so mainstream. 

Further links:

Canadian Bar Association - Dispute Resolution (cba.org)

neutralsolutions.ca 

https://mediatorsbeyondborders.org/what-we-do/working-groups/united-nations-working-group/women-in-mediation-action-group/

Mina Vaish, LL.M | LinkedIn

Ottawa Dialogue - Research & Action

Archana Medhekar - Mediators Beyond Borders International
 

Reach Out NGO | Cameroon (reachoutcameroon.org)

Esther Omam - Women Mediators across the Commonwealth

Esther Omam takes us on a deep dive into her work with Reach Out Cameroon during the Bakassi crisis on the border between Nigeria and Cameroon, and the Anglophone crisis in Cameroon's South West and North West Regions, still ongoing. For context: 

Bakassi conflict - Wikipedia

Anglophone Crisis - Wikipedia

Kilby Mediation

Before moving to McCarthy-Tetrault, Charlene Thedore worked as in-house council in the education sector and, in 2020, she was the first black person to become President of the OBA. Charlene has also worked for the UN committee on the elimination of racial discrimination and is a member and former director of the Canadian Association of Black Lawyers. 

In addition to her pioneering work on EDI at McCarthy and starting her own consultancy firm, IDEA Consulting, Nikki Gershbain is a long-time pro bono advocate and family law practitioner and has served as Executive Director of the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto and National Director of Pro Bono Students Canada. In 2021, she received the Canadian Bar Association’s LGBTQ Hero Award for her work on trans workplace inclusion. 

This is an episode full of practical, usable, advice on achieving true equity, diversity, and inclusion, at work and everywhere else. It includes concrete examples of effective and beneficial workplace EDI policies and offers some terrific all-purpose life lessons and memorable, usable, quotes. 

Charlene, Nikki and Julia discuss everything from the business case for EDI to Elon Musk's twitter beef with Mark Cuban, the need for active leadership on human rights and why trans inclusion matters; how cultural trends and current events in our increasingly polarized political and historical realities impact us at work; that “the truth is always more complex, because none of us is either totally oppressed or completely privileged" (Nikki Gershbain), and that "no one has a monopoly on being wrong" (Charlene Theodore).

Nikki Gershbain - IDEA Consulting: Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Accessibility (ideaconsultinggroup.ca)

Charlene Theodore | McCarthy Tétrault

Law & Disorder Inc. - Law & Disorder Inc. (murraygottheil.com)

As always, please feel free to subscribe and write to us anytime at podcasts@cba.org

Cases discussed in this episode:

2003 BCSC 1936 (CanLII) | Vancouver Rape Relief Society v. Nixon et al. | CanLII

1995 CanLII 98 (SCC) | Egan v. Canada | CanLII

1998 CanLII 816 (SCC) | Vriend v. Alberta | CanLII

1999 CanLII 686 (SCC) | M. v. H. | CanLII

2004 SCC 79 (CanLII) | Reference re Same-Sex Marriage | CanLII

2007 SCC 10 (CanLII) | Canada (Attorney General) v. Hislop | CanLII

Final-Settlement-Agreement.pdf (lgbtpurgefund.com)

This updated resource aims to help lawyers, clients, and judges gain a better understanding of the impact of criminal convictions on offenders before the courts.

The consequences can have an impact on everything from employment to housing, from family to financial considerations, from immigration to pardons.

Collateral consequences have the power to affect an individual – forever.

Canadian Bar Association - Collateral Consequences of Criminal Convictions: Considerations for lawyers (cba.org)

Our final episode with original CBA Task Force on Gender Equality members, Justice Sophie Bourque, Patricia Blocksom, Daphne Dumont and principal author Melina Buckley and a diverse cross-section of women lawyers working in the profession today on how much progress has been made on gender equality since 1993. 

And the next thirty years?

“When will the profession get to a place where we can look back and say, we got there!?” -Sameera Sereda

Link to the full report: touchstonesForChange.pdf (cba.org)

Touchstones Report Executive Summary:

The CBA’s Task Force on Gender Equality’s groundbreaking 1993 Report titled “Touchstones for Change: Equality, Diversity, and Accountability” addresses a range of issues related to equality and discrimination in the legal profession. It focuses on barriers to entry into the profession, including law school admission policies, access to articling positions, and the articling experience. The Report also highlights the unique challenges faced by women in the legal profession, such as employment opportunities, career advancement, and the lack of accommodation for family responsibilities. 

Additionally, the Report explores the dynamics within private practice, government legal departments, and corporate legal departments, including issues of employment equality, career opportunities, and instances of sexual harassment. Further, the Report delves into the challenges faced by faculties of law and administrative tribunals, examining issues such as representation, career advancement, balancing career and family responsibilities, and sexual harassment. It also addresses the judiciary and the need for a fair and diverse appointment process, judicial education, and tackling discrimination within the judiciary. 

The practice of family law is discussed in detail, highlighting issues related to representation, career advancement, funding for legal aid, and challenges with the substantive law. 

The Report also emphasizes the role of Law Societies and the CBA in promoting equality within the legal profession. It explores the need for non-discrimination, monitoring, disclosure requirements, alternative discipline processes, and the importance of implementing the Task Force’s recommendations. Finally, it touches upon the need for gender equality in substantive law and procedure, examining areas such as family law, intellectual property law, criminal justice, and pensions and benefits.

Overall, the Touchstones for Change Report provides a comprehensive overview of the challenges and areas requiring improvement in achieving equality and addressing discrimination within the legal profession in Canada. Reviewing the Summary below, one will see that many of these recommendations have been achieved; however, there is still much to be done to make them all a reality.

Summary of Recommendations

Chapter Two addresses barriers to entry into the legal profession and recommends a range of measures, including consultation mechanisms between law schools and law societies, outreach programs to promote diversity in the profession, education equity initiatives, affirmative action recruitment in law schools, admissions policy improvements, support for part-time studies, child care services on campus, increased funding for scholarships, gender-inclusive language and sensitivity in classrooms, curriculum reforms, potential Indigenous law school, appointment of Equity Officers and establishment of safe spaces in law schools, combating harassment and bias, and inclusion of gender-related courses in the Bar Admission program.

Chapter Five addresses issues within law firm and recommends adopting interview guidelines, implementing employment equity programs, monitoring hiring processes, tracking internal referrals to detect systemic discrimination, supporting female lawyers facing client discrimination, banning sexist activities in client promotion, reviewing promotion practices, establishing mentoring programs for women lawyers, evaluating partnership decision-making processes to eliminate bias, reporting demographic information and retention rates to law societies, establishing parental leave policies, offering child care support, implementing policies to address sexual harassment, promoting workplace equity, conducting educational initiatives and collaborating with relevant organizations to implement and finance these initiatives.

In Chapter Six, the Task Force presents recommendations to address gender equality issues within Government Legal Departments, including ensuring fair allocation of work and gender balance on committees, ensuring representation of minority women in the public service and gender equality in management and promotion processes, endorsing membership in professional associations, reviewing recruitment procedures, providing mechanisms for reviewing discretionary decisions related to family responsibilities, accommodating family responsibilities without hindering career advancement, providing anti-discrimination training, establishing advisory committees on gender issues and equal opportunities, and referring legal work to law firms with inclusive employment equity programs.

Chapter Seven of the Report recommends that corporate legal departments actively promote employment equity by hiring women from minority groups, referring legal work to law firms with strong employment equity programs that include representation of all women, establishing a Subcommittee on Gender Issues within the Canadian Corporate Counsel Association (CCCA) to develop strategies and monitor progress, and utilizing the CCCA as a resource for corporate policies on parental leave, flexible work arrangements, and programs addressing sexual harassment.

Chapter Eight suggests that law schools should prioritize recruiting faculty members from minority groups, regularly review recruitment practices for gender parity and minority representation, ensure affirmative action recruits are recognized as fully qualified, promote women's representation in committees and leadership roles, adopt workplace equity policies, consider women and minority faculty for dean appointments, eliminate gender-based salary differences, address salary inequities, provide reduced teaching loads and sabbaticals, and develop materials and seminars to address gender and minority challenges in teaching, with the Canadian Council of Law Deans playing a supportive role.

Chapter Nine advises governments to actively recruit women and under-represented groups for administrative tribunal positions, establish a re-appointment protocol without term limits, consider tribunal lawyers for other government and senior civil service roles, view tribunal experience as valuable for judicial appointments, review adjudicators' salary levels for potential discrimination, and encourage administrative tribunals to implement flexibility policies and suspend appointments during maternity and parental leave.

Chapter Ten proposes that the CBA create objective criteria for judicial appointments and establish committees for their development, and advocate for an affirmative action policy to appoint women and minority women, while also addressing discrimination in the appointments process; it recommends mandatory sensitivity courses for judges, fair workload allocation for women judges, and the creation of a Commission on Judicial Conduct with public hearings and equal representation of judges, lawyers, and the public.

In Chapter Eleven, the Task Force recommends increasing the emphasis on family law in legal education, improving its status within the legal profession, supporting family law practitioners, and ensuring sufficient funding and judicial resources for family law cases at both federal and provincial levels.

In Chapter Twelve, the Task Force recommends that law societies prioritize diversity and enforce non-discrimination rules. The Task Force also suggests establishing internal procedures within law firms to handle gender discrimination complaints and appointing "safe counsel" to investigate such complaints. Additionally, they propose monitoring the progress of women and minority groups within firms, ensuring compliance with human rights legislation, and developing educational initiatives to eliminate discrimination and promote equality. Law societies are also urged to gather statistics on the representation of minorities and conduct studies on racism in the profession.

In Chapter Thirteen of the Report, the Task Force recommends that the CBA amend its constitution and mission statement to address discrimination, conduct an inquiry into racism, promote accessibility and inclusion, gather statistics on underrepresented groups, establish committees, support lawyers with family responsibilities, advocate for gender equality, and adopt gender-inclusive language policies.

Lastly, the Task Force recommends in Chapter Fourteen that the CBA offer legal education programs on gender bias, develop a national strategy to eliminate gender bias in the justice system, advocate for access to justice measures for women, establish gender issues sub-committees, consult the National Equality Committee on law reform initiatives, and review submissions to address gender-related issues.

touchstonesForChange.pdf (cba.org)

Implementation. Led by Bertha Wilson, the Touchstones task force knew that the writing of the report including the research and recommendations was only the beginning. To engineer real societal change, what would happen as a result of the task force’s findings would be essential, as would the CBA. The real story of the Touchstones Report is about the self-reflection and willingness to embrace change on the part of the members the legal profession in the face of, well, the evidence. The CBA not only advocated for change, but it also actually changed itself and continues to do so. We feel that it is fair to say that the Touchstones Report changed the way the legal profession looks at equality and helped us to understand the need for diversity, equity, and inclusion within the profession and how the profession can, does, and should, provide leadership on exactly these areas of human co-existence.

“It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.”

-Frankfurter J., quoted by Bertha Wilson in her Introduction from the Chair, CBA Touchstones for Change.

touchstonesForChange.pdf (cba.org)

The National Study on the Psychological Health Determinants of Legal Professionals in Canada

Julia Tetrault-Provencher welcomes John Stefaniuk K.C. The CBA President speaks about growing up in Manitoba, the war in Ukraine, his long association with the CBA, and its role in safeguarding the rule of law both at home and abroad. Their discussion also touches on the role the CBA can, and does, play in promoting and improving inclusion in the legal profession and the responsibility to give back that comes with privilege. 

*Content warning: This episode discusses serious and potentially triggering subjects, including family violence and animal abuse, as well as the recounting of real-life events.

A new Report prepared for Humane Canada with funding from the Department of Justice Canada, The Violence Link in Practice is an empirical analysis of the implications of the Violence Link for Family Justice Professionals.

But what exactly is the Violence Link? Broadly, it describes the intersection between animal abuse and a litany of violent criminal offences from bestiality, child-, elder- and spousal abuse, to gang violence, human trafficking, and homicide. 

And family lawyers are often on the front line. 

With:

- Dr. Amy Fitzgerald. Criminology Professor at the University of Windsor, Amy is THE authority on the Violence Link, she has been researching the connection between animal abuse and domestic violence for many years and is the principal author of The Violence Link in Practice. 

-Jenny Mason has practiced family law for several years and is active in the PEI branch of the CBA as Chair of the Family Law Section, Chair of the ADR section, and Co-chair of the Animal Law section. Jenny has firsthand experience with the violence link in her practice. 

-Kerri Thomson and Valerie Monckton. Both from Humane Canada, they co-authored the report together with Amy and oversaw much of the research.

Please remember that abusers often monitor their victims’ online activity and correspondence. When sharing any information about abuse of any kind, it may be safer to do so verbally and in person. 

The Violence Link in practice - SUMMARY REPORT (humanecanada.ca)

The Violence Link in Practice - Full Report

2016 SCC 22 (CanLII) | R. v. D.L.W. | CanLII

R v Chen, 2021 ABCA 382 | NCPAC Case Law Database

Julia welcomes lawyers Chris Ellis and Hossein Moghtaderi from SAGDA.

Canadian Bar Association - Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Community (cba.org)

Hossein’s end of term newsletter:

Canadian Bar Association - Happy Pride Season! (cba.org)

Steeves Bujold's podcast series:

Canadian Bar Association - Conversations with the President (cba.org)

Marcus Sixta is the founder of Crossroads Law, a well-established firm specializing in family law with offices in Calgary and Vancouver and a 2023 excellence awardee for Canadian family law firm of the year, and more recently, he founded Coach My Case, which offers legal coaching services to self-represented litigants – we will be talking a lot about this in this podcast. A former social worker, Marcus is a certified collaborative divorce lawyer and an accredited family law mediator and family lawyer, and in 2021, he ranked as one of the top 25 most influential lawyers in Canada. 

Jo-Anne Stark is a former director of Advocacy at CBABC and the founder of Stark Solutions, primarily focused on helping SRLs navigate the legal system and providing training and certification for lawyers seeking to offer legal coaching services. You may well recognize Jo-Anne from our recent panel episode on limiting the misuse of NDAs by legal professionals as the lawyer who forwarded the extremely successful CBA resolution (94% in favor) on that issue. It was Jo-Anne’s second successful resolution at the CBA, after last year’s A2J Subcommittee resolution, which she also forwarded, calling for the CBA to look into innovative approaches to improving access to justice. Legal coaching for self-represented litigants is one such approach that is gaining traction as the number of self-represented litigants continues to increase all over the country, particularly in the area of family law. Jo-Anne recently publisheda Guidebook on Mastering the Art of Legal Coaching for legal professionals interested in learning how to set up and run legal coaching sessions to help self-represented people. Available online and through major retailers! 

Canadian Bar Association - Access to Justice (cba.org)

Reaching equal justice report (cba.org)

Www.legalcoachesassociation.org

Mastering the Art of Legal Coaching: The Legal Professional's Guide to Empowering Clients: Stark, Jo-Anne: 9780228829713: Books - Amazon.ca

Represent Yourself in Family Law Court - Hire a Legal Coach (coachmycase.ca)

Calgary Family Lawyers Divorce Separation Child Support (crossroadslaw.ca)

Home - CLEO (Community Legal Education Ontario / Éducation juridique communautaire Ontario)

Jo-Anne Stark is a lawyer and Certified Legal Coach and operates Stark Solutions Legal Coaching and Consulting which offers virtual help to self-represented litigants and training to lawyers who want to offer legal coaching to their own clients; she is the volunteer President of Legal Coaches Association, a non-profit she founded in 2019 to increase access to justice, a role which she has kindly agreed to talk about with us in another upcoming A2J episode of the Every Lawyer; she is also a former Director of Advocacy at CBABC. 

Julie MacFarlane is a Distinguished University Professor (Emerita) at the University of Windsor. Julie has also held numerous visiting appointments at universities all over the world. Her books include The New Lawyer : How Clients are Transforming the Practice of Law 2nd edition, UBC Press 2017; Islamic Divorce in North America : Choosing a Shari’a Path in a Secular Society (OUP 2012).; and Going Public: a Survivor’s Journey from Grief to Action Between the Lines Press, 2020). Julie has received many awards for her work, including the International Academy of Mediators Award of Excellence (2005), the David Mundell Medal for Legal Writing (2016), and one of Canada’s 25 Most Influential Lawyers (2017). In 2020 she was named to the Order of Canada. She is co-founder with Zelda Perkins of Can’t Buy My Silence, which campaigns for a change in the law on the misuse of Non-Disclosure Agreements. Julie is also an authority on self-represented litigants and hosts a podcast on this topic which we highly recommend, Jumping Off the Ivory Tower.

 Jumping Off the Ivory Tower with Prof Julie Mac – NSRLP (representingyourselfcanada.com)

Ronald A. Pink, K.C. practices in the fields of governance for organizations both public and private, pensions and benefits law, collective bargaining for public and private clients, municipal law, and labour and employment law. An advocate for labour relations, employment standards, and pensions and benefits, Ron has a long history with the Canadian Bar Association. He has served as President of the Nova Scotia Branch, Chair of the National Continuing Legal Education Committee, the first Chair of the International Development Committee and as acting Director of the Canadian Bar Insurance Association.

Jennifer Khor is Supervising Lawyer and Project Manager for the Community Legal Assistance Society’s SHARP Workplaces Legal Clinic. Jennifer provides legal advice and delivers education and training on workplace sexual harassment. She is also a member of the Uniform Law Conference of Canada’s working group on NDA’s.

Canadian Bar Association - National Section Elections (cba.org)

Government Lawyering: Duties and Ethical Challenges of Government Lawyers | LexisNexis Canada Store

Jennifer David is a senior consultant and leads an area of service called Truth and Reconciliation at NVision Insight Group, a majority Indigenous-owned company with First Nations, Inuit, Metis and non-Indigenous shareholders and staff.  From Omushkego, Jennifer is a member of Chapleau Cree First Nation and has a journalism degree from Carleton University in Ottawa, where she currently lives. She oversees the development and delivery of all Indigenous cultural awareness learning opportunities under the banner of The Path.

Andrea Menard is a Métis Nation of Alberta citizen who has worked for various organizations that range from academic, government, Treaty-making, and legal non-profit and legal regulatory work, and teaches Reconciliation and Lawyers at the University of Calgary, Faculty of Law as well as In Search of Reconciliation Through Dispute Resolution at Osgoode Hall Law School. Co-founder of the Indigenous Lawyers' Forum, an Alberta-based networking group for Indigenous lawyers, legal academics and law students, Andrea is also on the Board of Directors for the Alternative Dispute Resolution Institute of Alberta (ADRIA), and on the Canadian Bar Association's National Indigenous Advisory Group - Criminal Justice. 

Michael Michel on LinkedIn: I'm happy to share that my third publication, titled "Indigenous…

Canadian Bar Association - Understanding the Truth and Engaging in Reconciliation (cba.org)

Bigstone Restorative Justice | Justice réparatrice de Bigstone – RJ Pilot (rjalbertacourts.ca)

John Borrows, Recovering Canada: The Resurgence of Indigenous Law - McGill Law Journal

https://www.aptnnews.ca/investigates/inside-corrections-are-structure-intervention-units-a-safe-alternative-to-isolation/

further reading:

Overincarceration of Indigenous people: a health crisis | CMAJ

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/opinion-andre-bear-maintaining-legal-system-obstructing-justice-indigenous-1.6781527

Julia welcomes Tory Hibbitt, past chair of the CBA's Health Law Section and Dr. Vanessa Cardy MD, to discuss Garde Préventive and recent changes to Alberta's Mental Health Act.

Sania is active with the Alberta Branch of the CBA, as well the Federation of Asian Canadian Lawyers, and the Canadian Muslim Lawyers Association. Julia talks to her about bouncing back from burn-out, going from litigation in private practice to a regulator and back again, learning to cope with microaggressions and stigma on multiple fronts, and starting a family, all before turning 30. 

This conversation features an impressive density of tips, tricks, and hands-on advice for young legal professionals and their employers on sustainable lawyering.

EN_Preliminary report_Cadieux et al_Université de Sherbrooke_221024.pdf (flsc.ca)

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-legal-profession-needs-to-act-on-barriers-facing-historically/

https://nationalmagazine.ca/fr-ca/articles/the-practice/legal-education/2021/moving-beyond-diversity-and-inclusion

https://www.nationalmagazine.ca/en-ca/articles/the-practice/legal-education/2020/anti-racism-as-part-of-continuing-professional-dev

Trauma informed lawyering and bystander training: 

https://www.myrnamccallum.co/

https://standupteams.ca/

CBA National EDI recording series:

Achieving Racial Justice: 

https://www.cbapd.org/details_en.aspx?id=na_NA22EDI01A

Indigenous Lawyers Panel: 

https://www.cbapd.org/details_en.aspx?id=na_NA22EDI08A

Disability & Mental Health Panel: 

https://www.cbapd.org/details_en.aspx?id=na_NA22EDI09A

Internationally Trained Lawyers Panel: 

https://www.cbapd.org/details_en.aspx?id=na_NA22EDI10A

CBA Alberta EDI PD recording series:

Anti-Racism Education for Legal Professionals: 

https://www.cbapd.org/details_en.aspx?id=ab_ab21edi01o

Being an Engaged Bystander:

https://www.cbapd.org/details_en.aspx?id=ab_AB21EDI05O

How to be an effective ally:

https://www.cbapd.org/details_en.aspx?id=ab_ab21edi04o

Julia speaks to Stephen Gerald Kent and Agizul Sumber from IDLO Mongolia, and Abdu Murabit, who has just finished a YLIP internship with them, about their recent exposure visit to Ontario's Family Courts. Legal best practice sharing in the global effort against domestic violence.

Mongolia | IDLO - International Development Law Organization

Canadian Bar Association - Young Lawyers International Program (cba.org)

The Litigator and Mental Health - Court of Appeal for Ontario (ontariocourts.ca)

Reflections on Mental Health - Court of Appeal for Ontario (ontariocourts.ca) 

and get his first impressions of the recently published groundbreaking nationwide study by the University of Sherbrooke on the psychological health determinants of legal professionals in Canada:

EN_Preliminary report_Cadieux et al_Université de Sherbrooke_221024.pdf (flsc.ca)

They also discuss the impacts of working from home and the billable hour system on maintaining good mental health, as well as the importance of mentorship:

Canadian Bar Association - Mentorship Programs (cba.org)

Whatever the reason for your interest in this issue, if you are a legal professional or aspire to be one, setting limits and achieving psychological detachment from your work are the key. 

Canadian Bar Association - The first comprehensive national study on wellness in the legal profession is published (cba.org)

Recommendations: https://flsc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/EN_Report_Cadieux-et-al_Universite-de-Sherbrooke_FINAL.pdf

Executive Summary: https://flsc.ca/flsc-s3-storage-pub/u/flsc-s3-storage-pub/FINAL_Executive%20Summary-Wellness.pdf

FAQ: https://flsc.ca/flsc-s3-storage-pub/u/flsc-s3-storage-pub/FAQs%20v5%20Wellbeing.pdf

Canadian Bar Association - CBA Well-Beingx

https://nationalmagazine.ca/en-ca/articles/legal-market/law-firms/2022/a-wake-up-call-for-law-firms

Canadian Bar Association - The first comprehensive national study on wellness in the legal profession is published (cba.org)

Please feel free to contact us via podcasts@cba.org

Lloyd Lipsett is an international human rights lawyer with over 20 years of experience working with leading companies, governments, national human rights institutions, civil society organizations and indigenous peoples.  He has developed a niche in the field of business and human rights, with a focus on implementing human rights due diligence processes (HRDD) and human rights impact assessments (HRIA) in challenging contexts.  In particular, he has led or participated in over 30 HRIAs and has conducted over 75 site visits to implement HRIA or HRDD processes around the world.

Marketing consultant Sandra Bekhor and small firm founder and senior lawyer Garry Wise recently celebrated their 22nd anniversary. What's their secret? 

In this episode of the Every Lawyer, the Toronto power couple show that when it comes to marketing and social media for lawyers, as in all things including love, you have to give to receive. 

We thought about calling this episode "the early adopters get the clients" but embracing technological and societal developments early on is only part of the secret to building the firm you want.

links:

https://nationalmagazine.ca/en-ca/articles/the-practice/small-and-solo/2021/making-the-most-of-your-linkedin-profile

Sandra Bekhor, Practice Development Consultant at Bekhor Management

Wise Law Office - Toronto Law Firm & Lawyers | Serving Ontario

https://www.linkedin.com/in/saraforte/

https://www.americanbar.org/products/inv/book/411688555/

What lawyers need to know to avoid business complicity in human rights abuses. To quote Eric Szeto from this episode: "if you look closely enough you will find problems in every industry".

Canadian Bar Association - Business and Human Rights (cba.org)

Economic expediency has often led to special fast-track immigration programs with varying degrees of successful application and execution, and the same has occurred in response, again in varying degrees, to various humanitarian crises around the world.

The Every Lawyer takes a deep dive into Immigration Law in Canada and sheds light on some serious Access to Justice issues. Some solutions included.

With Arghavan Gerami and Kyle Hyndman from the CBA Immigration Law Section in cooperation with the CBA Access to Justice Subcommittee.

Hosted by Julia Tétrault-Provencher.

Julia welcomes Noah Arshinoff to discuss the on-going work of the CBA Anti-Corruption Team as well as:

“Global Corruption: Its Regulation under International Conventions, US, UK, and Canadian Law and Practice” by Professor Ferguson, now in its 4th edition. 

Sometimes known as "Prof. Ferguson's Book", you can find the current edition for free here:

Canadian Bar Association - Global Corruption: Its Regulation Under International Conventions, US, UK, and Canadian Law and Prac (cba.org)

Links:

Transparency International Canada (transparencycanada.ca)

Canadian Bar Association - Anti-Corruption (cba.org)

Home | Basel Institute on Governance (baselgovernance.org)

CCEAC | Canadian Centre of Excellence for Anti-Corruption

Arshinoff, Noah | Faculty of Law - Common Law Section | University of Ottawa (uottawa.ca)

Also includes a basic synopsis of the criteria and safeguards set out in Canada's MAiD legislation and a firsthand account of the procedure.

Links:

Final Report of the Expert Panel on MAiD and Mental Illness - Canada.ca

Second Annual Report on Medical Assistance in Dying in Canada 2020 - Canada.ca

Dying With Dignity Canada | It's your life. It's your choice.

CAMAP – Canadian Association of MAID Assessors and Providers (camapcanada.ca)

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John Borrows

Naiomi Metallic

the late Harold R Johnson 

Stacey Soldier 

Dr. Val Napolean 

Signa Daum Shanks 

Maggie Wente 

David Nahwegahbow

Brenda Gunn

Aimee Craft 

Robin Sutherland 

and Alyssa Bird.

In this episode of the Every Lawyer we gain insight into the drafting process behind Bill C4 Banning Conversion Practices in which Florence Ashley participated extensively, their guidance on working with clients who are survivors and a plea that the hard work of litigation continue.

"The (legal) system is one of the ways in which we can create a  small shelter of temporary reprieve from the rain." By the end of this podcast, you will agree that Florence is indeed “cynical with a solution”.  

Florence advocates for an improved uptake of science and a more intersectional approach  by the courts in their decision-making process and within the legal system generally.

Julia is a lawyer (Quebec Bar) working as a Legal Counsel in Sexual and Reproductive Rights for Lawyers without Borders Canada (ASFC) in Quebec City. 

Ms. Kuranicheva is an immigration lawyer working at the Edmonton Community Legal Centre and Chair of the Immigration Law (North) section of CBA’s Alberta Branch. She is one of the 11 lawyers who are currently working on a pro bono basis and who have put in place this initiative. 

For more information on this initiative, CBA Pro Bono Initiative – Crisis in Afghanistan

If you want to contact Ms. Kuranicheva to volunteer as an immigration lawyer, to provide support or to suggest other actions that could be undertaken: anna.kuranicheva@ualberta.net

If you are interested to contact the member of parliament of your region to request the temporary lifting of the ‘formal refugee status’ requirement to urgently address the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan, you can find your representative here: https://www.ourcommons.ca/members/en

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The first episode of Stephen's series Strengthening our Community will be released on November 18, 2021. Check it out here:  Helping Canada’s vulnerable communities with Wei William Tao

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Lisa Middlemiss has been a lawyer with Gomberg Dalfen since 2013. She is passionate about Canadian immigration and citizenship issues and she advocates at the federal level as a member of the Executive of the Citizenship and Immigration Section of the Canadian Bar Association.

Click here for more information on The CBA Immigration Law Section.

The Immigration Law Section wrote to IRCC earlier this year to raise concerns about the exclusion of lawyers. 

Former CBA President Bradley Regehr sent a letter expressing concern that Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada is preventing lawyers from effectively representing their clients to Immigration Minister Marco Mendicino and Justice Minister David Lametti.

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Now that we explored the calls to action that the Truth and Reconciliation Commission directed at the legal profession and the justice system, in this final episode, we shift gears a bit to discuss what comes next.

Dr. Pamela Palmater is a Mi’kmaw lawyer, professor, author, and social justice activist from Eel River Bar First Nation in New Brunswick. A practicing lawyer for 22 years, Pam has been volunteering and working in First Nation issues for over 30 years.

Cindy Blackstock, a member of the Gitxsan First Nation, is the Executive Director of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada. A former social worker with a Master’s in Jurisprudence.

Click here to register to The Path - Your Journey Through Indigenous Canada

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Julia has an undergraduate degree in International Development, a master’s degree in Rhetoric and recently completed her Juris Doctor degree. She’s the vice chair of the law students section of the CBA who put on this series.

The Law Students Section launched the video project: 20 Questions, 5 Minutes

• To watch the video featuring Erin Brook on Family Law
• To watch  the video featuring  Melissa Hazelton on Criminal Law 
• To watch the video featuring  Aaron Baer on Corporate Law 
• The video featuring  Heather Hettiararchchii about labour and employment law will be put online in the coming weeks.

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Jennifer David (Chapleau Cree First Nation),  a skilled and experienced communicator, project manager, planner, facilitator and lead development of CBA Truth and Reconciliation Toolkit.

To consult the CBA Truth and Reconciliation Toolkit.

To consult the CBABC Reconciliation Response Plan (RRP)

To consult The Path - Your Journey Through Indigenous Canada

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Maggie Wente, a partner with Olthius Kleer Townshend in Toronto, is a member of Ontario’s Serpent River First Nation. Maggie has a broad practice serving First Nations governments, their related entities, businesses and not-for-profit corporations. She is past-President of the Board of Directors at Aboriginal Legal Services of Toronto, and served as a Commissioner on the Ontario Human Rights Commission for nine years.

David Nahwegahbow, founding partner of Nahwegahbow Corbiere in Orillia, has represented First Nations in land claims, treaty and Aboriginal rights litigation and negotiation. He’s a founding member of the Indigenous Bar Association. And he’s Anishinabe from Whitefish River First Nation in Ontario.

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Shelley Birenbaum is a member of the CBA’s End of Life Working Group and a health lawyer with the Ontario Bar for over 25 years. She specializes in the legal and ethical aspects of assisted dying.

In this episode, we talk about the major issues that the Working Group fought for (eligibility for people with a psychiatric condition, advance requests for MAID, people under age of majority), the major impediments to MAiDs that the CBA took on apart from these issues, the restrictions surrounding a “reasonably foreseeable death” and much more.

Click here to view the work of The End of Life Working Group of the CBA, the influence the CBA had on Bill C-7, the overall efforts of the working group and the National Magazine article Balancing autonomy and protection.

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An interview with David Matas, senior legal counsel for B’Nai Brith Canada, who was instrumental in drafting the CBA’s submission on these issues of online hate. We talk Section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act, procedural safeguards and the balance between freedom of speech and protection against online hate.

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Click here to view The Mortgage Instructions Toolkit.

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Aimée Craft is Anishinaabe-Métis, an associate professor in the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Law, and has been voted one of the top 25 influential lawyers in Canada. She’s an expert in Canadian Aboriginal law and an internationally recognized expert in the areas of Indigenous laws, treaties and water.

Brenda Gunn is Métis, and is an associate professor at the University of Manitoba’s Robson Hall Faculty of Law. She completed her LL.M in Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy at the University of Arizona. She developed a handbook on implementing UNDRIP that is becoming one of the main resources in Canada on the declaration.

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Aimée participated in a previous episode on our French channel Juriste branché about the final report Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. 

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In this month’s episode, Yves Faguy speaks with Warren Ragoonanan, one of the founding partners of WRD LLP in Toronto, a law firm that serves businesses and entrepreneurs who want to solve social and environmental challenges. They discuss a range of topics from the evolution of ESG and defining a corporation’s purpose to one of the biggest myths surrounding shareholder primacy.

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Professor John Borrows is the Canadian Research Chair in Indigenous Law at the University of Victoria, and has written extensively on Indigenous legal traditions. He is Anishinaabe/Ojibway and a member of the Chippewa of the Nawash First Nation in Ontario.

Naiomi Metallic holds the Chancellor’s Chair in Aboriginal Law and Policy at Dalhousie University’s Schulich School of Law. She’s been on the Best Lawyer In Canada list in Aboriginal law since 2015. She is from the Listuguj Mi’gmaq First Nation in Gespe’gewa’gi (Gaspé region of Quebec).

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Naiomi Metallic participated in a previous episode  with former president Ray Adlington Conversations with Indigenous Lawyers

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In this month’s episode, Yves Faguy speaks with Carly Romanow and Catherine Ewasiuk of the CBA’s National Women Lawyers Forum to discuss the impact of the Covid she-cession and why we need better data to understand wage gaps in the legal profession.

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Dr. Val Napoleon is an associate professor and Law Foundation Professor of Aboriginal Justice and Governance at the University of Victoria. She co-founded UVic’s Indigenous Law Research Unit and the Joint Degree Program in Canadian Common Law and Indigenous Legal Orders JD/JID that launched in 2019. 

Signa Daum Shanks is Métis, born and raised in Saskatchewan. She became part of the full-time faculty at Osgoode Hall in 2014, as the schools inaugural Director of Indigenous Outreach. At Osgoode she teaches Torts, Law and Economics, Game Theory and the Law, and Indigenous Peoples and Canadian Law. 

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In this month’s episode, Yves Faguy speaks with Jocelyn Stacey, an assistant professor at the Peter A. Allard School of Law and author of The Constitution of the Environmental Emergency, to discuss how climate change is likely to disrupt how we govern ourselves under the rule of law.

This episode is presented by Lawyers Financial.

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Harold Johnson  is a lawyer with Master in Law from Harvard and 10 years as a Saskatchewan Crown prosecutor under his belt. He’s also a prolific author, writing both fiction and non-fiction.

Stacey Soldier, an associate with Cochrane Saxberg Barristers and Solicitors in Winnipeg, has worked as a criminal lawyer since being called to the bar in Manitoba in 2008. She was part of the intervenor legal team acting for the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs before the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.

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Yves Faguy speaks with the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, Richard Wagner, to discuss the court’s work during the pandemic, systemic racism, and his temporary role as administrator of the Government of Canada until a new Governor General is appointed. 

This episode is presented by Lawyers Financial.

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In this month’s episode, we talk with Jordan Furlong about a wave of regulatory reforms coming out of the U.S. that are having an impact on the legal industry, and how Canadian jurisdictions should prepare.

Jordan is one of the leading analysts of the global legal market. He has written extensively on a range of topics dealing primarily with how law firms and law departments need to prepare for the future of the industry. Many of his writings you can find on his Law21.ca blog.  He is the author of a recent report presented to the Law Society of Alberta offering recommendations on lawyers licensing and competence You can follow him on Twitter @jordan_law21.

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Brad Regehr discusses Call to Action number 27's aim at making sure practising lawyers receive cultural competency training, with Jennifer David and Michael McDonald, Q.C.  

Jennifer David (Chapleau Cree First Nation) is an experienced communicator, project manager, planner and facilitator. She is committed to creating and portraying an accurate and positive narrative of Indigenous people in Canada.  For 2020-2021, Jennifer is President of the NVision Board of Directors..

Michael McDonald Q.C. a member of the Peguis First Nation in Manitoba, Michael couples vast business experience with distinct cultural understanding to serve our clients from a holistic perspective, crafting solutions that unite legal, commercial, governance and social interests.

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Yves Faguy speaks with York University law professor Dr. David Doorey about needed reforms to our employment and labour laws.

In this month’s episode, we talk with Dr. David Doorey about the impact of the gig economy on workers’ rights, legislative efforts to protect autonomous workers, how the courts have fared in shaping our laws in Canada, and the challenges ahead for organized labour. Doorey also shares his thoughts on how a Joe Biden presidency might affect workers in Canada. 

Dr. David Doorey is an Associate Professor of Labor and Employment Law at York University in Toronto. His research and writing in the areas of Canadian and comparative labor and employment law, industrial relations, labor and the environment, corporate social responsibility and global supply chains Professor Doorey’s book The Law of Work is a leading law text used in universities and colleges across Canada. His blog Canadian Law of Work Forum, which he started in 2008, has been a frequent recipient of the Canadian Law Blog Award for top law blog in Canada.  You can follow him on Twitter @TheLawofWork.

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For his first episode as host of Conversations with the President, Brad talks with Alyssa Bird and Robin Sutherland about The Truth and Reconciliation’s eleventh call to action is a demand for “adequate funding to end the backlog of First Nations students seeking post-secondary education.”

Alyssa Bird is an Anishinaabe and Cree woman from the Pequis First Nation. She earned her Juris Doctorate at the University of Manitoba, where she was an executive member of the Manitoba Indigenous Law Students Association. She now practises with Evans Family Law in Winnipeg.

Robin Sutherland is a Mushkegowuk Innino raised in the Moose Cree First Nation and a proud member of the Fort Albany First Nation. His background is in teaching secondary school in his home community. He is now the Director of Indigenous Relations at Lakehead’s Bora Laskin Faculty of Law.

Visit www.cba.org/dispatches to learn more about CBA President and his goals.

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Yves Faguy discusses privacy law and data protection with privacy and cybersecurity lawyer Sinziana Gutiu. 

Gutiu shares her insights into trends shaping the privacy debate at home and abroad, the impact of the Schrems II ruling, Quebec’s effort at updating its privacy law regime, and coming tech developments that we should be thinking about while crafting new laws.

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We are chatting with Brad Regehr, the new Canadian Bar Association President and the first Indigenous person to take on the role. 

We’re talking about reconciliation, COVID-19 and even his amateur theatre career. His podcast series Conversations with the President - The President’s take on TRC’s Calls to Action highlights many of the 94 calls to action from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, particularly those related to the legal profession.

Visit www.cba.org/dispatches to learn more about CBA President and his goals.

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What was the European Union/United States Privacy Shield and what does this mean for Canada? What do non-privacy law specialists need to know about this and what’s the future for data transfers?

Eduardo Ustaran is a partner with Hogan Lovells in London, where he’s co-head of the privacy and cybersecurity practice. He will be part of the CBA Access to Information and Privacy Law Online Symposium.

Timothy Banks  is a technology lawyer in Ottawa, he specializes in information technology and consumer law. He is the Chair of the CBA Privacy and Access Law Section and will co-host the Symposium.

Register today to the CBA Access to Information and Privacy Law Online Symposium.

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Adam Norget is vice-chair of the CBA National Young Lawyers Section and labour and employment lawyer with Neuman Thompson, in Edmonton.

Mark Holthe is an immigration lawyer in Lethbridge, Alberta. He’s been facilitating an online series about how to find work during a pandemic for young lawyers, to register: Coffee in the Times of COVID The Lost Job Series

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For her last episode as host of Conversations with the President, Vivene Salmon talks with Aly Haji about why millennials are leaving law firms; and Allan Rock on his carrer as a Liberal Justice Minister, President Emeritus of Ottawa University and ambassador to the United Nations.

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What it has been like for you to practice as a Black lawyer in Toronto? Is the law an effective tool at combatting systemic racism? What advice does Arleen has for racialized lawyers and for allies going forward?

Arleen Huggins is a partner with Koskie Minsky in Toronto, where she heads the employment law group

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In this sixth and final episode in our series, Justice Minister David Lametti and CBA President Vivene Salmon talks about the investments the federal government and the provinces need to make in the administration of justice to improve access to justice.  They also discuss how the global racial protests is putting pressure on the government to address systemic racism in the criminal justice system. 

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Vivene talks with Ruth Goba about mentorship and sponsorship and how they navigate the Canadian legal space as black women. 

Over the course of a career a lawyer can seek out a variety of mentors to provide a number of services – teacher, coach, advisor or confidante. It’s becoming clear that even more than mentors young lawyers – particularly those from equity-seeking groups – need sponsors, people in the upper tier of the firm who can make sure their work will get noticed, that they will be assigned to important files, and their names will rise to the top when it comes time to choose new partners.

Ruth Goba is a human rights lawyer and the Executive Director of the Black Legal Action centre which was established in 2018 with a mandate to fight anti-black racism in Ontario.

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In this fifth episode, Joshua Sealy-Harrington discusses COVID 19 and the impact it’s had on global protests calling for an end to systemic racism. He also shares his thoughts on how our justice system is embedded in a broader framework of capitalism that is deployed against marginalized people.

Joshua Sealy-Harrington is a lawyer at Power Law and a J.S.D. candidate at Columbia Law School.  You can follow him on Twitter @JoshuaSealy. He’s also published articles for CBA National, the Globe and Mail and Ablawg, the Law Blog of University of Calgary Faculty of Law.

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Vivene talks with Jamie Benizri and Monica Goyal about entrepreneurship and how the business of law will be different after COVID.

How to become a legal influenceur? How to protect our brand? What technology is going to be most important as we move into post-pandemic recovery? And more!

Jamie Benizri describes himself as a lawyer by trade and entrepreneur at heart. In 2011 he launched Legal Logik with the goal of making legal services more convenient, accessible and affordable.

Monica Goyal is an entrepreneur, lawyer and innovator, the founder of My Legal Briefcase, and Aluvion. She has been part of the CBA Legal Futures Initiative.

Visit www.cba.org/dispatches to learn more about CBA President and her goals.

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In this fourth episode, Karen Eltis talks about the rush to digitalize our courts system, the justice system’s reliance on private platforms, and why we need to think about the security of our data.

Karen Eltis is a law professor at Ottawa U and a faculty member at its Centre for Law, Technology and Society. She specializes in artificial intelligence, innovation law and policy, and cybersecurity. She is a past director of the Human Rights Research & Education Centre at Ottawa U and she has also been invited as a subject matter expert to inform the work of the CBA Task Force on Justice Issues Arising from COVID-19.

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The online meetups bring junior lawyers and law students together with mentors to discuss pertinent issues in the legal field that have been changed by our new virtual reality.

Candice Ashley Pollack is the communication officer for the Canadian Bar Association’s Young Lawyer Section and the co-chair of their mental health and awareness committee.

Lexy Smith-Doughty is a lawyer with the Auditor General of New Brunswick and she’s currently on the mental health and awareness committee of the CBA.

Register here to Coffee in the Times of COVID  

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Yves Faguy speaks with Cori Ghitter of the Law Society of Alberta and legal market analyst Jordan Furlong about legal education, how it has been affected by the pandemic, and what needs to change for it to address the needs of a modern legal industry.

In this third episode, the guests talk about the sudden shift to online legal education, what it means to be a competent lawyer in 2020, and whether articling, as we know it, ought to be abolished. 

Jordan Furlong is a legal market analyst, the author of Law Is A Buyer’s Market: Building A Client-First Law Firm For the 21st Century and of the blog Law21.ca.

Cori Ghitter is the Deputy Executive Director and Director Professionalism and Policy at the Law Society of Alberta.

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Melanie Del Rizzo has a broad legal practice which includes family law in St. John’s, Newfoundland. She’s a certified mediator and was past chair of the National Family Law Section of the CBA.

Erin Brook is a formal federal prosecutor who specializes now in family law out of Nanaimo, British Columbia. She’s currently the Table Executive Member of the Family Law Section of the CBA’s National Organization.

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Yves Faguy speaks with Laura van Wyngaarden of Diligen and Peter Aprile of Counter Tax Lawyers to discuss how COVID-19 could change the way we work in the legal sector.

In this second episode, the guests talk about how the legal market may or may not change after the pandemic, what the motivation should be for firms to adopt technology and how remote work is likely to change future career paths. 

Laura Van Wyngaarden is the Co-Founder and COO of Diligen, a leading legal tech company based in Toronto, which provides machine-learning contract review for lawyers. 

Peter Aprile is a tax dispute and litigation lawyer and the founder of Counter Tax Lawyers in Toronto which has built proprietary software to help its lawyers determine the best course of action to resolve tax challenges.

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In this episode, Martine Boucher and Vivene discuss the impact today's reality can have on small and solo legal practices, many of which lack the resources of larger firms, and are not always as adept and knowing how technology can help them to adapt faster and more efficiently to change.

Martine Boucher, founder of the boutique firm Simplex Legal. is Chair of the CBA Futures Subcommittee and is a member of the CBA Task Force on Justice Issues Arising from COVID-19.

Visit www.cba.org/dispatches to learn more about CBA President and her goals.

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In this first episode, the guests share their experience in trying to launch projects that were aimed at making justice more accessible for regular Canadians, but then ran into roadblocks. They offer some ideas about what level of effort is needed to get reform of our justice system onto the legislative agenda.

John-Paul Boy, Q.C. is a lawyer, trained mediator, parenting coordinator, and arbitrator as well as the principal at John-Paul Boyd Arbitration Chambers.

Kyla Sandwith is a legal operations consultant and the founder of De Novo Inc.

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Robert Harvie has been a Divorce and Family Lawyer in Lethbridge and Southern Alberta for over 30 years. His practice has a special emphasis on complex matrimonial property division, including corporate interests, family trusts, and farm divorce.

Donna Purcell's busy civil litigation practice at Warren Sinclair LLP (since 1995) includes Serious Personal Injury, Employment Law and Civil Litigation.

To learn more about how to improve your small or solo firm, consult the guide How to Innovate: Futures for Small and Solo Law firms and the worksheets:  A Practical Guide to Managing Change

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Nous avons également un épisode similaire dans notre balado en français Juriste branché.

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Vivene meets with Erin Cowling and Kim Gale to discuss the rejection of the traditional law firm model, billable hours and entrepreneurship. How are they dealing with the expectations placed on young lawyers?

Erin Cowling founded Flex Legal in 2015, a network of experienced freelance litigators providing outsourced legal services.

Kim Gale  opened Gale Law in 2019. She’s also the author of the popular blog Law for Millennials, founder of a network for lawyers who trained internationally.

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Devon Black works in Georgetown, Guyana with the Society Against Sexual Orientation Discrimination.

Navdeep Kaur works in Hanoi, Vietnam with UNICEF.

To learn more and to apply to the program, visit the Young Lawyers International Program website.

Listen to last year's episodes:  

• From Packing up to Settling in
• Intercultural work experience
• When things go wrong
• Welcome back home!

Pour écouter nos stagiaires francophones:

• Juriste Nomade: 2019
• Juriste Nomade: 2020

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Less than 70 years ago, people wanting to enter the common law legal profession in Canada took some courses, but mostly they learned to do by doing, through years of apprenticeship to senior lawyers. Today we’ll talk to two law school deans, Ian Holloway and Camille Cameron about who should be providing on-the-job training.

Ian Holloway has been dean at UCalgary Law for more than a decade. He’s also a former member of the CBA Legal Futures Initiative Task Force, where he acted as legal education and training team leader. 

Camille Cameron started her legal career in Halifax but since then has worked as a legal consultant and advisor in a number of countries including Cambodia and China. Before coming to the Schulich School of Law she was law dean at the University of Windsor. 

Dean Cameron says legal educators have to prepare students for the future, and that’s what we’re going to talk about today.

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Sheila Osborne-Brown co-authored the CBA’s “Pandemics and the Workplace” resource for lawyers. It helps lawyers advise clients on protocol during a pandemic and can also help them assess the effect of a pandemic on their own workplaces. 

To find a Canadian lawyer, use the CBA Find-A-Lawyer tool.

Nous avons également un épisode similaire dans notre balado en français Juriste branché.

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Did you know that lawyers are 3.6 times more likely to be depressed than non-lawyers who share their same socio-demographic traits. Both our guests were speakers in the wellness conference of April 2019.

Doron Gold is a former lawyer and current psychotherapist. He specializes in helping lawyers deal with personal and professional issues like addiction, depression, anxiety and career stress. He co-authored to CBA’s mental health online course and in 2016 was honoured by the CBA for his work in this area.

Glen Hickerson is a trial lawyer at Wilson Laycraft in Calgary. His practice includes construction, employment and debtor-creditor matters before the court. He has extensive community and professional involvement, including various legal education positions and as a peer mentor for Alberta Lawyers Assist.

If you want to know more about mental health and wellness in the legal profession, check out MDcme.ca an online self-learning program about causes, symptoms, preventions and treatments.

Nous avons également un épisode similaire dans notre balado en français Juriste branché.

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There’s a lot of talk about the articling crisis in Canada – law students are having a hard time finding articling positions, and those who do complete their articles can’t always get a job afterward. Ronit Dinovitzer has been studying what law grads in Canada and the U.S. do once they’ve passed the bar. When Ryerson’s law school opens in September 2020 it will be one of several new law schools in Canada promising a more practice-oriented curriculum. But whether it will add to the articling crisis in Canada remains to be seen. We talk to Anver Saloojee about it.

Ronit Dinovitzer is a professor of sociology at the University of Toronto. 

Anver Saloojee is Ryerson’s Vice-President, International, a full professor in the Department of Politics and Public Administration, and the interim dean of the new law school.

Visit www.cba.org/dispatches to learn more about CBA President and her goals.

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Vivene meets Jordan Furlong and Omar Ha-Redeye to look at how the legal profession is changing due to societal, economic and technology forces and what this means for lawyers in Canada.

In this inaugural episode, Vivene talks about how the legal marketplace changed after the economic crash of 2008, the lawyer development system, the challenges of navigating the legal space as a young lawyer, and more!

Jordan Furlong  is the former senior editor of CBA National Magazine, an author, consultant and a leading analyst of the global legal market at his company Law 21. 

Omar Ha-Redeye was a past Young Lawyer Chair in the Ontario Branch. He has held a variety of leadership positions in CBA National. 

Visit www.cba.org/dispatches to learn more about CBA President and her goals.

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Thank you to all our past guests for their thoughtful advice and encouragements.

You can hear their appearances here:

• You can hear Jason Cooke’s interview about How to sit on a board while managing a full-time practice 
• You can hear Charlene Theodore’s interview about working as a Racialized Lawyers.
• You can hear Anne McLellan’s interview about working as a Woman Lawyer.
• You can hear David Curry’s interview about working as a Racialized Lawyers.
• You can hear Vivene Salmon's interview about her goals as the CBA president and her series Conversation with the President.
• You can hear Martine Boucher’s interview on how to engage in efficient business development.
• You can hear Preston Parson’s two interviews on the Articling Experience and working as a LGBTQ2S+ Lawyer.
• You can hear Twila Reid’s interview about How to sit on a board while managing a full-time practice 
• You can hear Nicole Nussbaum’s about working as a LGBTQ2S+ Lawyer.
• You can hear Kim Campbell’s about working as a Woman Lawyer.

If you want to know more about mental health and wellness in the legal profession, check out MDcme.ca an online self-learning program about causes, symptoms, preventions and treatments. 

Nous avons également un épisode similaire dans notre balado en français Juriste branché.

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Visit www.cba.org/dispatches to learn more about CBA President and his goals.

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Today's guests are Preston Parsons and Charlene Scheffelmair.

Returning for a second epsiode Preston is CBABC Elected Vancouver Country Representative, past chair of the CBABC National Young Lawyers Executive and Vice president of start proud Vancouver region.

Charlene Scheffelmair is the chair of the law students section of the CBA, articling student at Davidson & Williams in Lethbridge and Thompson Rivers University graduate.

Read the letter CBA sent to the Federation of Law Societies of Canada.

**Since the recording of this episode, the Law Society of Alberta released the results of two surveys they conducted in May and June 2019 in conjunction with the law societies of Saskatchewan and Manitoba to better understand the current state of the articling system across the three provinces. Among the findings, it reported that 32 per cent of respondents said they had experienced discrimination or harassment during recruitment and/or articling. To find out more about the results of the survey, please visit https://www.lawsociety.ab.ca/2019-articling-survey-results/

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John is the Chair of the CBA’s Access to Justice Subcommittee and CEO at his firm Gilbert McGloan Gillis in Saint John New Brunswick. He’s the founder of a free legal clinic there and in 2018 he won the CBA’s Pro Bono and Volunteer Service Award.

Be heard! Use our online letter-writing tool to ask candidates in your riding to take a leadership role on the issue of legal aid. To learn more about the campaign, head over our website and make sure to check out #LegalAidMatters on social media.

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Cyndee Todgham Cherniak is the founding lawyer of LexSage, a boutique international trade law and sales tax firm in Toronto, Ontario. She wrote the toolkit we are exploring today: Border Alert!

To find a Canadian lawyer, use the CBA Find-A-Lawyer tool.

Nous avons également un épisode similaire dans notre balado en français Juriste branché.

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Last episode of Conversations with the President: Raising the Bar on Inclusion. Ray shares some of his favourite moments from this past year. From LGBTQ2S+ lawyers, to ex-Prime Minister, to talking with a lawyer living with a disabilities. Ray has shared and learned so much from a cross-section of lawyers from around the country.

Full episodes:

• You can hear Ritu Bhasin on Conversation with Diversity and Inclusion Expert.
• You can hear Naiomi Mettalic on Conversations with Indigenous Lawyers.
• You can hear Charlene Theodore and David Curry on Conversations with Racialized Lawyers.
• You can hear Sacha de Klerk on Conversation with a diversity and inclusion leader.
• You can hear Kim Campbell on Conversations with Women Lawyers: Part 2 with Kim Campbell
• You can hear Preston Parsons and Nicole Nussbaum on Conversations with LGBTQ2S+ Lawyers
• You can hear Lorin MacDonald on Conversation with a lawyer living with a disability.

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Ray meets with Sacha de Klerk, Head of Diversity and Inclusion, Canada, Norton Rose Fulbright. They talk inclusion initiatives, promoting diversity and the need for substantive data.

Sacha has a degree from the IMM School of Marketing in South Africa. Nine years ago she joined Norton Rose Fulbright in London, where she led the firm’s diversity and inclusion initiatives across Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.

She answers questions like: Are you dealing with the same problems at different levels, or different problems when it comes to many parts of the world ? What special insight into the problem does your homeland give you? What is the disconnect between hiring and promoting?

Visit www.cba.org/dispatches to learn more about CBA President and his goals.

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The first stop is Laura MacLean in Ottawa. She’s currently a staff lawyer at La Clinique Juridique Francophone D’Ottawa working primarily on immigration files. She interned in Durban, South Africa working for Lawyers for Human Rights in the Refugee and Migrant Rights Program in 2019.

Our next guest is Mathieu Delorme also in Ottawa. He’s currently a labour lawyer for a public service union. He went to Grahamstown South Africa in 2011 to intern at the Legal Resources Centre there.did his internship in Grahamstown, South Africa in 2011-2012.

To learn more about the program, go on the Young Lawyers International Program website.

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• First stop: Sheru Abdulhusein, in Nairobi, Kenya
• Next stop: Ademofe Oye-Adeniran, in Durban, South Africa
• Final stop: Elliot Fonarev, in Cape Town, South Africa

To learn more about the program, go on the Young Lawyers International Program website.

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Ray meets with Lorin McDonald, a lawyer from Toronto who was born with profound hearing loss in both ears. They discuss her journey through law school, the Accessible Canada Act (passed on May 29) and more!

When we think about diversity, we tend to think about race, sexual orientation and gender identity, but there are other types of diversity to be aware of as well, religious differences for example or the differently abled. Lorin answers questions like: What led you to decide to become a lawyer, at age 41? What type of accommodations do you need to practice law with a hearing loss? What do you think leaders of law organizations can do to make their organizations more welcoming to people with sensory disabilities?

A transcript is available for this episode.

Visit www.cba.org/dispatches to learn more about CBA President and his goals.

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To find a Canadian immigration lawyer, use the CBA Find-A-Lawyer tool.

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Part 2 with Kim Campbell: In this episode Ray talks social media, her career in law and politics and how she deals with it all.

Kim Campbell has a lot of Canadian firsts after her name. First female justice minister. First and only female defence minister. The first prime minister to be born in British Columbia and so far the only female prime minister.

Listen here for part 1 with Anne McLellan.

Visit www.cba.org/dispatches to learn more about CBA President and his goals.

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• First stop: Vietnam with Shima Heidari.
• Next stop: Myanmar with Kathryn Fox.
• Last stop : Kyrgyzstan with Stacey Hsu.

To learn more about the program, go on the Young Lawyers International Program website.

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Part 1: In this episode Ray will be talking with Anne McLellan, counsel with Bennett Jones in Edmonton, who has risen to the top of Canada’s federal political spectrum and lives to tell the tale.

Anne McLellan earned her bachelor’s and law degrees at Dalhousie, then went on to earn a Master of Laws at King’s College London. She spent 20 years in academia, teaching law at the University of New Brunswick and the University of Alberta, before jumping into politics. She spent her entire political career as a cabinet minister: Health Minister and Justice Minister under Prime Minister Jean Chretien, and Deputy Prime Minister under Paul Martin.

Mrs McLellan answers questions like: What was law school like for a woman in the early 70s? What advice do you have for girls and women considering careers in the law, or politics, or who are interested in serving on boards?

Listen here for part 2 with Kim Campbell.

Check out the many benefits of the only Investment Program available exclusively to Canada’s legal community, at lawyersfinancial.ca/investments

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• First stop: Serbia, with Parveen Parmar
• Next stop: Kyrgyzstan, with Muhammad Zubair
• Final stop: South Africa, with Amilah Abd-Al-Rashid.

To apply to the 2019-2020 cycle, go on the Young Lawyers International Program website.

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In this episode, Ray meets Charlene Theodore, 2nd Vice-President of the Ontario Bar Association, who is the first black woman to occupy this position. He also meets with David A Curry, Crown Attorney in Digby, Nova Scotia, to discuss his experience as a black and Mi’kmaq lawyer.

Charlene and David are young lawyers hoping to change the face of the law in their communities. They talk privilege, mental health, leadership development for racialized lawyers, the climate for a black lawyer in Nova Scotia, and being disrespected by court staff because they look different from the dominant group.

To know more about the 2019 Leading Change: Leadership Development Bootcamp for Racialized Lawyers, click here.

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Our guests on this episode are all members of the Canadian Bar Association’s board of directors. Twila Reid, Jason Cooke and Jeff Howe are here to tell us the risks and the rewards of sitting on that non-profit board.

To learn more about our board, visit our website.

To learn more about serving on a board, watch our webinar.

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Preston Parsons was called to the bar in 2011. He’s past Chair of the Young Lawyers Section and was a co-chair of the CBA-BC Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Community, or SOGIC. Nicole Nussbaum is an Osgoode Hall graduate. She’s a past-chair and current member-at-large of the CBA’s SOGIC. She also has more than a decade of experience practicing as an openly trans lawyer.

Visit www.cba.org/dispatches to learn more about CBA President and his goals.

Nous avons également parlé avec Élisabeth Brousseau sur son expérience en tant que femme ouvertement lesbienne, dans notre balado en français Juriste branché.

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Full episodes:

• You can hear Stephanie Melnychuk on Let’s talk Wellness.
• You can hear Larry Markowitz on Let’s talk Personal Branding.
• You can hear Andrea Rayment on Let's talk Mentoring.
• You can hear Ray Adlington on Meet your President and the first episode of his series Conversation with the President.
• You can hear Martine Boucher on Business Development for Small and Solo Firms.
• You can hear Jamie Benizri on How to become a Legal Influencer.

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We have the chance to have not one but two guests on this episode. Merle Alexander (partner at Miller Titerle Law Corporation in Vancouver and leader of the First Nation Development Group) and Naiomi Mettalic (first person of aboriginal heritage to clerk for a Supreme Court justice) share with Ray, their experiences as part of the legal system. What types of obstacle they had to face, who were their professional role models and what should everyone know when it comes to Indigenous affairs.
Tune in!

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To learn more about how to grow your professional network and business development, consult the guide How to Innovate: Futures for Small and Solo Law firms

Check out the many benefits of the only Investment Program available exclusively to Canada’s legal community, at www.lawyersfinancial.ca/blog

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In this inaugural episode, Ray talks cultural competency, bias, privilege and more with diversity and inclusion expert, Ritu Bhasin. Her personal experience and her expertise will help you answer questions like: How can I recognize my biases? How should I act with someone different than me? Am I racist for mentioning or even noticing race?

Visit www.cba.org/dispatches to learn more about CBA President and his goals.

Check out the many benefits of the only Investment Program available exclusively to Canada’s legal community, at www.lawyersfinancial.ca/investments

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To learn more about how to grow your professional network and business development, consult the guide How to Innovate: Futures for Small and Solo Law firms

Nous avons également parler à Martine dans notre balado en français Juriste branché.

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Check out her webinar on practical tips for managing everyday stress.

Nous avons également parlé de mentorat dans notre balado en français Juriste branché.

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What's your motto? Figuring out the image you're portraying to the world is the first step into your professional career. In this episode, we discuss how to perfect the art of the elevator pitch, what we should be saying on social media and how to network with recruitment expert and securities lawyer Larry Markowitz.

Check out his webinar on building your personal brand.

Nous avons également parlé avec Me Markowitz dans notre balado français Juriste branché.

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From correctly aligned posture, to carefully selecting what food fuels you, Stephanie Melnychuk is an elite athlete who knows the ins and outs of high endurance performance. In this episode, she shares her wellness tips with law students. If the most exercise you've had today is getting up from your desk to grab a latté, tune in to find out why that's okay and what you can do from your desk to increase productivity and health.

Check out her webinar on practical tips for managing everyday stress.

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