City of Pisa v The Tower Experts
By Marcel Strigberger | January 7, 2025 Mistakes, also known as errors, blunders or, in legalese, boo-boos. I am especially interested in historical iconic mistakes. What comes to my mind quickly is the Leaning Tower of Pisa. Surely it would not take legendary architect Frank Lloyd Wright to notice that it was not rising according […]
Retirement For Young and Old Lawyers: Part Eight – The Final Chapter
By Murray Gottheil | January 6, 2025 I’m not sure I can say there is a clean line between me as an individual and me as a lawyer – Anita Hill Retiring may be difficult for many lawyers, because too often lawyering is not only what we do, but who we are. You cannot retire from […]
BARE BONES BRIEFS: No charging order for fees though client refuses to direct settlement to firm; Judge orders duelling counsel to lunch together; Lenczner Slaght obtains $259 million judgment in Manitoba’s first electronic trial; BLG hires Hélène Deschamps Marquis to co-head privacy and cybersecurity group
By Julius Melnitzer | January 5, 2005 BAD WAY FOR LAW FIRM TO START NEW YEAR On New Year’s Eve, Ontario Superior Court Justice Todd Robinson denied Woodrbridge, ON law firm Capo Sgro LLP‘s application for a charging order over settlement fees, brought after the client sought an assessment (still pending) of the firm’s total […]
Retirement For Young and Old Lawyers: Part Seven
By Murray Gottheil | January 1, 2025 In Part Four, I wrote about the dread that some of us experience when we contemplate the fantasy number that we think we have to save to retire. Once I abandoned my original demented plan to work as long as it took to achieve my number, I asked my […]
A funny thing happened on the way to the morgue
By Marcel Strigberger | December 28, 2024 You only die twice. No, this is not a title for a James Bond movie. I’m talking about people being misdiagnosed as being dead when in fact they are still alive. Do they have legal recourse? Though not a common occurrence, such as lawyers getting sued (for different reasons), it is not […]
How mergers and acquisitions impact executive compensation
By Julius Melnitzer | December 19, 2024 Mergers and acquisitions can give rise to many legal and financial complexities related to executive compensation. “The key thing from acquirers’ point of view is to understand what their objectives are with respect to executive compensation,” says Elizabeth Boyd, a pensions, benefits and executive compensation partner at Blake, […]
Retirement For Young and Old Lawyers: Part Six
By Murray Gottheil | December 18, 2024 Husband: “Green Acres is the place to be . . . keep Manhattan, just give me that countryside.” Wife: “New York is where I’d rather stay. I get allergic smelling hay. I just adore a penthouse view. Dah-ling, I love you, but give me Park Avenue.” – Lyrics by Vic […]
The Unhappy Lawyer: It’s Not About the Journey
By Marcel Strigberger | December 17, 2024 The following is an excerpt from Marcel Strigberger’s new book, First, Let’s Kill the Lawyer Jokes: An Attorney’s Irreverent Serious Look at the Legal Universe Hey lawyers! Is everybody happy? You may be one of the fortunate ones. I Googled “unhappy lawyers” and my search triggered 17,200,000 results, including “I hate being […]
LST Squirms Its Way to Accepting Reprimand for Jeremy Diamond’s Misconduct
By Julius Melnitzer | December 16, 2024 Far be it from me to judge whether a reprimand was an appropriate sanction for Jeremy Diamond’s misconduct, though I’m a firm believer that the initial Law Society Tribunal that heard his case had no business refusing to let him withdraw his admissions of guilt after rejecting a […]
Retirement For Young and Old Lawyers: Part Five
By Murray Gottheil | December 10, 2024 Way back in 1997, my firm had an existential crisis when our three largest rainmakers decided to ditch private practice to chase the really big money. And of course, they all wanted their capital back. At the same time. So, brilliant lawyer that I was, after surviving that crisis, […]