CBA Applauds Work of Truth and Reconciliation Commission March 14, 2016 The CBA joins the TRC in encouraging all levels of government, and other public and private institutions in Canada, to carefully consider the calls to action and to take appropriate steps toward reconciliation.
Madam Justice Suzanne Côté and Jeremy Millard highlight CCCA Conference March 14, 2016 Jeremy Millard, Legal Director of Uber Canada and Madam Justice Suzanne Côté, Supreme Court of Canada, will headline the Canadian Bar Association’s Canadian Corporate Counsel Association 2016 National Conference.
Do Law Differently – more than a suggestion March 10, 2016 Do Law Differently: Futures for Young Lawyers, was launched at the CBA Mid-Winter meeting of Council in Ottawa in February, but that’s by no means the end of the story.
CBA Partners with MaRS Discovery District's LegalX Cluster March 09, 2016 The Canadian Bar Association is partnering with MaRS' legal innovation cluster LegalX to launch an event at the CBA’s Legal Conference this summer in Ottawa.
Input to the Federation of Law Societies of Canada March 07, 2016 Many of the provincial law societies are currently deliberating on whether (and if so, how) to implement some form of entity regulation in their jurisdictions.
CBA provides guidance to private, in-house counsel on preventing labour abuses March 07, 2016 The Canadian Bar Association has adopted model business principles to combat forced labour, labour trafficking and illegal or harmful child labour that will help lawyers in private practice and in-house counsel to encourage their business clients to guard against labour abuses in their operations.
Lawyers need the small business tax rate too February 26, 2016 Following up on a promise made during last fall’s election campaign, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has instructed the ministers of Small Business and Finance Bill Morneau to work together to ensure the small business tax rate is used to support small businesses.