North America/Canada - Page 8
Canadian firms warned to encrypt client data or risk surveillance threat
The Canadian Anti-Terrrorism Act, now passing through parliament, could mean that law firms which do not encrypt data will imperil the confidentiality of clients - as the security forces will find it easier to get warrants that breach privacy.
Law firm sets up in Bermuda tax haven
The Canadian 380-lawyer firm Bennett Jones is to work in association with a firm of the same name set up in Bermuda by a former senior commercial partner of the Canadian practice.
Uberesque solution for criminal lawyers
Legal entrepreneurs in Canada have devised an app to help criminal lawyers who urgently need another lawyer to stand in for them.
Norton Rose and Blake Cassels emerge as top Canadian law brands
Norton Rose Fulbright has taken the top slot, followed by Blake Cassels & Graydon in a survey of 249 Canadian general counsel, carried out by Acritas.
Gowling makes a move on Cuba
The Canadian law firm is taking steps to make waves before the island is fully open to US investors.
Deloitte sued for C$384m in document reviewer class action
Deloitte and a document review company it acquired a year ago are alleged to have saved millions of dollars by treating hundreds of document reviewers as contractors when they were, in reality, employees based in their offices.
De Brauw Blackstone acts for Caldic
The Dutch law firm advised on the acquisition of the Ingredient Company in Canada.
Canadian lawyers rebel against the billeable hour
Canadians are looking to promote other fee arrangements as a Canadian judge reviews one particular case.
Lawyer sues city which fired him after five years in legal team
Markus Buchart, 52, is seeking unspecified special, aggravated and punitive damages and costs from the city of Winnipeg after he was sacked from the legal department a few days before Christmas.
DLA set for April merger with Davis in Canada
DLA Piper and the 260-lawyer firm Davis are said to have voted in the last two weeks to approve a merger between them which is due to be implemented through a Swiss verein structure sometime next month.
White male lawyers urged to turn down judicial positions
A legal ethics professor has asked white male lawyers in Canada to start turning down judicial appointments - on the grounds that only one non-white and ten women have featured in the last 46 appointments.
McCarthy Tetrault tops Canada finance tables
McCarthy Tetrault has come top in half of the 12 Legal Post league tables run on advisers to debt and equity issuers - and is followed by Blake, Cassels & Graydon which wins the top spot four times.
Canada gets ready for shift to Alternative Business Structures
The big issue for 2015 is going to be 'all the noise is about alternative business structures' (ABSs), according to Canadian Lawyer magazine.
Dentons Dacheng recruits former Alberta premier as counsel
David Hancock, premier for six months last year, has joined the corporate commercial side of the firm's Calgary and Edmonton offices as counsel.
Canadian firms plan diversification after Heenan Blaikie lesson
As Canadian law firms make plans for 2015 - a year which could see the go-ahead for ABSs - one leading lawyer predicts that they will diversify in order not to fall victim to the specialist approach which brought down Heenan Blaikie last year.
Legendary criminal lawyer Greenspan dies in Arizona
Eddie Greenspan, who represented media baron Conrad Black and German financier Karlheinz Schreiber among other well-known clients, has died in his family holiday home in Phoenix at the age of 70.
Ex-Skadden lawyer confesses to $5m Ponzi scheme in suicide note
A 56-year old lawyer has been charged with fraud after writing a suicide note confessing to fleecing family and friends - but being saved from death by the police.
Walmart law shops plan major expansion
Axess Law, the four-branch law firm based in Toronto Walmart stores, is to open seven more outlets in the city in the next six months before expanding across Canada.
Racial discrimination widespread in Canada legal sector
Despite a marked growth in numbers of black and other minority lawyers, discrimination is still rife, according to a report from the Law Society of Upper Canada.
Osler tops Canadian financings table
Canadian corporate lawyers worked on 124 debt and equity financings in Q3, a 'surprisingly robust third quarter' according to The Financial Post which put together the listings.