What is the real take-away from the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the sidewalk slaying of Florida teen, Trayvon Martin? The case, at first glance, appears to reside squarely on the obvious fault-lines of race, guns and the law that shamefully, America still doesn’t have much of a handle on.
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Wise Law Blog: Google Reader is Dead. Long Live…?
Following up on my posts last Thursday here and at SlawTips, Google Reader has now officially expired. For those who have yet to migrate to another service, note that Google will continue to store your subscription data until July 15th only. After July 15, you will not be able to
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Goodbye Google Reader: Survival Tips for July 1 and Beyond
Today at SlawTips, I look at the world after Google Reader, which is to be closed down on July 1st, and offer a few promising alternatives for legal power-users who just can’t do without their daily RSS reader fixes: So where shall we go on July 1 to find our vital law
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Twenty Tips for Articling Students
In today`s post at SlawTips, I offer my top twenty tips for the new crop of articling students that is now beginning to arrive in the law offices of the nation. See the entire post: Articling Tips for Students-at-Law. And on a related note, a special welcome to Ms. Simran Bakshi,
Continue readingWise Law Blog: "But I Still Really Wanna Be a Fireman…"
Did your mama always want you to become a lawyer? Well, according to a survey conducted by Lawyers.com, those kinds of parental inclinations probably haven’t changed much. Parents of the world still see a bright future for their children in the legal profession: 64% of survey respondents with children in
Continue readingWise Law Blog: eCourts in Canada
My post @SlawTips today looks at the calls for technological modernization of Canada’s court system. It may seem like equal parts pipe dream and unscheduled inevitability, but in the context of an acknowledged access to justice crisis in Canada, the call for technological modernization of our nation`s courts seems to
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Toronto Law Blogger Meetup: Thursday May 23, 2013
Hello again, Toronto law bloggers, tweeters, and other related enterprises and entities throughout this great nation! As discussed on Twitter, the next Toronto Law Blogger Meetup will be this Thursday May 23, 2013, 7:00 p.m. at P.J. O’Brien’s Irish Pub, 39 Colborne Street, Toronto. A special welcome to those who
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Tax-Time Assessment
Today at SlawTips, I suggest a checklist of questions for lawyers to ponder about their firms’ bookkeeping and accounting processes, with a view to making tax-day 2014 a bit more painless. See today’s post: New (Tax) Year’s Resolutions. – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Work-Life Balance On The Beach
My SlawTips post this week considers the thorny question of maintaining work-life balance – with a bit of ocean breeze on the side. True confession time – I still work a bit while I’m away. I’d rather set aside an hour or so a day while I’m on vacation to
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Eight Years of Wise Law Blog
Hard to believe, but it’s now been eight years of Wise Law Blog. Yes, it’s our 8th blawgversary blogversary. And clearly, that means I should write something to mark the occasion. It feels a bit early to be writing any blog-career retrospectives, though. I think I will save that until 2015. But
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Thursday’s Practice Tip: Communications with Clients
In our column this week at SlawTips, David Bilinsky and I offer practical solutions to the oft-cited challenge of maintaining good communications with our clients: Once a practice has matured, no lawyer can do it alone. The solution to the communications conundrum is probably as simple as this – develop
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Dialogue with the "Law Society Guy"
My discussion with B.C. Law Society lawyer and practice management guru, David Bilinsky, continues today with this week’s installment at SlawTips. See Perspectives on Practice Management: The Regulator and the Practitioner. Here’s a snippet: Perhaps our regulators would do well to recognize – and dare I say learn from – the degree
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Vexatious Litigants
I’m quoted in this week’s Law Times in writer Yamri Tadesse’s article on vexatious litigants – see Judge seeks end to ‘longest running legal drama:’ While family law matters often lead to heated disputes, estates litigation “in some ways can be even worse,” says Toronto lawyer Garry Wise. “Sibling rivalries go
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Google Reader, Farewell
OMG, Google is retiring Google Reader as of July 1. Now what? – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Collaboration, Law Firm Style: Part 3
The third part of my series with Dave Bilinsky, Collaboration, Law Firm Style, is now up at SlawTips. Here’s a snippet: By centering our collaborative discussions around specific, individual tasks and focusing on how the processes utilized to perform them can be streamlined, regularized and optimized, we can avoid many of the
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Collaboration, Law Firm Style – Part 2 at SlawTips
Collaboration: Breaking Each Task Down into its Many Parts, the second installment of my Practice Tips series with David Bilinsky on law firm collaborations, is now online. Here’s a snippet: There are infinite variations on this theme, but irrespective of the size of your group, the questions for planners and team-players remain
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Bruuuce…
My Twitter feed almost made my day today: My hungry heart skipped a beat there for a second… Alas, one quick click revealed that it wasn’t a follow from @springsteen (the real deal), at all. Just @BruSpringsteen, a mere fanpage. Was fun while it lasted, though. And thanks for the
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Collaboration, Law Firm Style
My first co-post at SlawTips is now up. See: Collaboration, Law Firm Style: An introduction – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Slaw-tered
To Slaw or not to Slaw…. It took nearly eight years of blogging this blog, but I have finally succumbed to the Slaw bug. I will be joining my friend, David Bilinsky, for a weekly Thursday collaboration at SlawTips. David introduced me to his loyal readers last Thursday. My first
Continue readingWise Law Blog: 140 Law – Legal Headlines for Tuesday January 22, 2013
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Tuesday, January 22, 2013: This week at the SCC Activists use MLK’s ‘I Have A Dream’ speech to pick copyright fight New York ex-con charged for shooting neighbor’s guitar over loud music Bad tenant scams – CBC.ca Oklahoma
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