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- Summaries Sunday: SOQUIJ May 11, 2025Every week we present the summary of a decision handed down by a Québec court provided to us by SOQUIJ and considered to be of interest to our readers throughout Canada. SOQUIJ is attached to the Québec Department of Justice and collects, analyzes, enriches, and disseminates legal information in Québec. PÉNAL (DROIT) : Il existe une […]
- Professional Identify Formation: What It Is and Why It Matters May 9, 2025The concept of “professional identify formation” came to the fore in 2007, when the report Educating Lawyers: Preparation for the Profession of Law[1] was published by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching . Commonly known as the Carnegie Report, it determined that preparation for the profession required three apprenticeships. The third of these […]
- Book Review: COVID-19, Law & Regulation: Rights, Freedoms, and Obligations in a Pandemic May 8, 2025Several times each month, we are pleased to republish a recent book review from the Canadian Law Library Review (CLLR). CLLR is the official journal of the Canadian Association of Law Libraries (CALL/ACBD), and its reviews cover both practice-oriented and academic publications related to the law. COVID-19, Law & Regulation: Rights, Freedoms, and Obligations in […]
- Wednesday: What’s Hot on CanLII? – April 2025 May 7, 2025Each month, we tell you which three English-language cases and French-language cases have been the most viewed* on CanLII in the previous month and we give you a small sense of what the cases are about. For this past month, the three most-consulted English-language decisions were: 1. Afolabi v. Law Society of Ontario, 2025 ONCA […]
- Free AI Is All You Need to Supercharge Your Practice May 7, 2025The market for legal AI is teaming with options. Many of them are compelling. All of them are expensive. What the companies offering these tools hope that you don’t notice is that free (or almost free) tools, like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini are getting so good at basic legal research tasks that many lawyers looking […]