
Living Paycheque to Paycheque on $6,574,000
By Murray Gottheil | April 2, 2025 Photo by Pixabay at Pexels. It’s Not a Principle Until it Costs You Money – Bill Bernbach We have all been reading about the Paul Weiss law firm settling with the Trump Administration to get out from under an executive order, the legality of which is, to say the least, […]

How India’s Lawyers Are Paralysed by Obsolete Advertising Norms
Prachi Shrivastava By Prachi Shrivastava | March 30, 2025 Somewhere between the Supreme Court’s of India’s shutdown of Internet platform JustDial’s and Quikr’s lawyer listing pages, and the Bar Council of India’s (BCI) passive-aggressive circulars on “promotional activities” by law firms, the Indian legal profession entered what can only be described as a cold war […]

Ontario court rules employer’s return-to-workplace request amounts to constructive dismissal
By: Julius Melnitzer | March 24, 2025 Ontario’s small claims court has ruled that recalling an employee from a remote working arrangement to in-person work can amount to a constructive dismissal giving rise to liability for damages. The employee in question, Lesley Byrd, had worked for Welcome Home Children’s Residence Inc. in Ottawa since 2018, but […]

Jewish Lawyers Unite in Fight against Anti-Semitism – Finally!
By Julius Melnitzer | March 20, 2025 It’s been years since Jewish lawyers in Canada had a united voice, and about 18 months since the horror of Hamas’s attack on October 7, 2023. But the recent formation of the Canadian Jewish Lawyers’ Association (CJLA) has at last given a voice to a professional group that has largely […]

Soaked to the Skin
Photo by Min An at Pexels By Murray Gottheil | March 17, 2025 I don’t consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin – Leonard Cohen I have a friend who is a dermatologist. I will call him Howard. Howard […]

Quebec’s approach to remote workers’ rights holds lessons for other provinces: lawyer
By: Julius Melnitzer | March 13, 2035 Quebec’s approach to legislation impacting remote workers’ rights holds lessons for the rest of Canada, says Geneviève Beaudin, a Montreal-based partner in Lavery de Billy LLP’s labour and employment law group. “There have been five cases in Quebec that focus on the meaning of ‘establishment’ [in a remote working […]