Author: Garry J. Wise, Wise Law Office, Toronto

And happy NHL free-agency day too… – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net WRONGFUL DISMISSAL • CIVIL LITIGATION AND ESTATE LITIGATION • FAMILY LAW AND DIVORCE ORIGINALLY POSTED AT WISE LAW BLOG • SUBSCRIBE TO WISE LAW BLOG Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net

Bearing an uncanny resemblance to Dr. Phil, Florida State prosecutor Bernie de la Rionda argues against bail for accused killer, George Zimmerman:     – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net WRONGFUL DISMISSAL • CIVIL LITIGATION AND ESTATE LITIGATION • FAMILY LAW AND DIVORCE ORIGINALLY POSTED

… to escape socialist Obamacare. – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net WRONGFUL DISMISSAL • CIVIL LITIGATION AND ESTATE LITIGATION • FAMILY LAW AND DIVORCE ORIGINALLY POSTED AT WISE LAW BLOG • SUBSCRIBE TO WISE LAW BLOG Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net

On the farce that was yesterday’s US Supreme Court ruling that narrowly preserved the Obama health care plan, Salon writer and University of Colorada law professor Paul Campos gets it entirely right: Today, John Roberts got to decide what sort of healthcare system the United States should have. It would be

Can we all agree that going after athletes that use steroids is a huge waste of time and money? Yes, I believe we can. – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net WRONGFUL DISMISSAL • CIVIL LITIGATION AND ESTATE LITIGATION • FAMILY LAW AND DIVORCE ORIGINALLY

I’m a smoker, but I’ll say this anyway. If the government is genuinely serious about limiting tobacco-related harm, try this on for a concept: Just do it – ban the sale of cigarettes and tobacco products in Canada. Don’t enact silly,  feel-good measures like legislating larger anti-smoking warnings on cigarette

A daring social media campaign changes the conversation – and according to this video, helps win an election by a landslide: – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net WRONGFUL DISMISSAL • CIVIL LITIGATION AND ESTATE LITIGATION • FAMILY LAW AND DIVORCE ORIGINALLY POSTED AT WISE

Last night, Toronto lawyer and writer Mitch Kowalski formally launched his book, Avoiding Extinction: Reimagining Legal Services for the 21st Century, at an event at Ben McNally Books in downtown Toronto. In a short talk, he discussed the challenges ahead in what he describes as clearly “the most disruptive time

We had another successful meetup of Toronto’s law blogging and tweeting community on Monday night at The Keg on York Street, downtown. Here’s a look at the lineup: Left:  Jessica Gonzalez   Omar Ha-Redeye of Fleet Street Law and My Support Calculator   Joshua Slayen of Legal Linkup  Simon Fodden of Slaw  Michael Carabash of Dynamic Lawyers   Colin Lachance of CanLii.Right:  Mark Robins of Lawyer Locate  Chris Jaglowitz of Gardiner Roberts  Pei

Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Wednesday, May 9, 2012: Ontario moves toward digital court records – National Post  Mentally ill female prisoners treated cruelly, inhumanly, report finds via @TorontoStar The KSM Trial Spectacle (Wall Street Journal) Don’t Underestimate Lawyers’ Resistance to Change, Seyfarth

It may be the #hashtag that will ultimately will do it in. Or perhaps, it’s just that it’s still sniggeringly funny to our latent kindergarten brains when someone says the acronym out loud. This was one of the many things I learned chairing the Law Society of Upper Canada’s Legal

Blog years probably should be counted like dog years. And while I’d be remiss if I didn’t note that the seventh anniversary of the commencement of this blog came and went last week, the truth is it seems like it’s been much longer than that. In fact, it’s awfully hard to remember

Our American friends are at it again.  A new legislative initiative by Senator Joseph Lieberman, a  former Democratic Vice-Presidential candidate, is justifiably raising eyebrows sky-high among free speech advocates south of the border.   Patterico reports: According to the blog McIntyre v Ohio, an anonymous blog devoted to promoting anonymous speech, Senator Joe

I am quoted in this article on the legal profession’s utilization of social media: Why like social media? – Lawyers Weekly – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Firm website: www.wiselaw.net TORONTO EMPLOYMENT LAW • TORONTO CIVIL LITIGATION & ESTATE LITIGATION • TORONTO FAMILY LAW & DIVORCE ORIGINALLY

The winners of the 2011 Canadian Law Blog Awards have been announced. Congratulations to Erik Magraken’s B.C Injury Law Blog, named as Canada’s best of 2011, and to all winners and finalists in the many other categories. Happily, Wise Law Blog has made the cut this year as a runner-up in

It’s been quite a year, and with this, our 400th post of 2011, let me simply thank our readers for joining us here at Wise Law Blog, via RSS, on Twitter and at the various sites where our posts can be found online. We appreciate that you take the time