Lawyers are hoping for more consistent rules for international arbitration across Canada as plans are in the works to smooth out differences between the provinces and territories.

OTTAWA — How much do criminals actually cost society? The federal government is looking to answer that question through a new effort to study the cost of a life of crime in Canada in a bid to bolster the case for youth crime prevention.

Lawyer and therapist Doron Gold has had many patients who told him they couldn’t open their e-mails.

Real estate lawyer James Naumovich says he couldn’t have known his law clerk of 28 years would start diverting millions in client money held in trust.

Details of an international scam targeting law firms in Canada and the United States that bilked them of an estimated $70 million are slowly emerging in court actions on both sides of the border.

Each time Rhonda Nordlander leaves the courthouse, she suffers an episode of what she calls “post-traumatic court disorder.”

Contrary to a widely held belief, work-life balance isn’t primarily a women’s issue, according to a new Canadian study on career trajectories in the legal profession.

As paralegals seek a broader scope of practice and a larger role within the legal profession, the Law Society of Upper Canada is increasing the number of paralegal benchers at Convocation to five from two.

Four years after their firms identified them as strong performers, a group of women lawyers continues to move up the ranks of the profession thanks in part to ongoing mentorship and an increased focus on retention efforts.

‘This isn’t about lawyers making money or paralegals making money. This isn’t about turf. This is about protecting the public,’ says Victoria Starr. Photo: Robin Kuniski

As law associations have begun welcoming them into their ranks, paralegals are yet again seeking to expand the scope of their practice in a new motion that’s stirring up controversy ahead of its discussion at the Law Society of Upper Canada’s annual general meeting in May.

In a demonstration of the courts’ discretion to limit testamentary freedom, a Superior Court judge has rewritten the will of a deceased Ontario man who left nothing to his common law wife of 11 years by reallocating life insurance money from a policy naming a previous spouse the beneficiary.

The Ontario government can’t refuse to renew the driver’s licences of bankrupts who haven’t paid their debts to the province, a Superior Court judge has ruled.