On Trayvon: Guns, Race and Fear in America
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…
Garry J. Wise, Wise Law Office, Toronto
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…
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…
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…
"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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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
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…
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:…
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…
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:…
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,…
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…