August

It happens every day – you sit down to work on an important task and constant interruptions keep you from finishing it: people drop by, the phone rings, notifications keep popping up in the lower right-hand corner of the screen telling you you have new email that looks far more urgent than whatever you’re working on.

Negotiation is a basic life skill, something every toddler learns how to do in order to get what they want, testing new tactics each time they hit a wall. You develop a strategy and you re-examine it as situations evolve, Sean McGee of Nelligan O’Brian Paine told a PD session at the 2016 CBA Legal Conference in Ottawa.

Monkeys don’t like it when they’re not treated fairly, and neither do people. And treating people unfairly is one sure way of creating disengagement among employees.

Probably the first clue that this wasn’t your senior partner’s CBA Legal Conference event was the disco ball and the dance music booming out of the doors at The Pitch the CBA’s first-ever legal innovation startup competition, hosted with LegalX.

Minister of Justice addresses delegates at the 2016 CBA Legal Conference (Video)

“How many of you sit on boards now?” asks Rick Powers, a lawyer and associate professor from the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management.

Do you finish your conversations when you’re under pressure? You might be surprised.

Judicial vacancies and the court delays that accompany them were a key theme as the 2016 CBA Legal Conference began in Ottawa.

Minister of Justice Jody Wilson-Raybould acknowledged today the need to fill outstanding federal judicial vacancies. “I am very sensitive to the pressures that courts throughout the country are currently experiencing due to judicial vacancies,” she told opening plenary delegates at the CBA Legal Conference in Ottawa.

Stephen Rotstein of Toronto has been named Chair of the Canadian Bar Association’s (CBA) Canadian Corporate Counsel Association (CCCA) for 2016-2017, a post he takes over from Frédéric Pérodeau of Montreal on August 12, 2016.