Holy crap it's been a long time since I've posted! I just restored from my last saved draft and it said "Happy September everybody!" Yikes. I have no excuse except to say that I have been crazy busy. I've hopped onto my friend page a few times to see how you all were doing but have been feeling very uninspired when it comes to posting.

Wow. Well, ( Read more... )

Have you guys been following the developments in the law on prostitution in Ontario? No? Well allow me to enlighten you!
( Come on, you must be just a bit curious! )

Interesting, to me at least, comment on a new role for the music industry from Tiffany Wong, who blogs at IPOsgoode

"...[I]ndie labels are experiencing a paradigm shift to becoming curators and gatekeepers of good music, rather than primarily distributors of physical CDs to music stores. As indie labels gain a reputation, a brand, they can monetize ( Read more... )

In a first for Canada (to the best of my knowledge), the government of the Yukon has signed an agreement with the Teslin Tlingit First Nation to allow them to establish what appears to be a separate justice system within their territory. The new Peacemaking Court is given the “original jurisdiction to:”

• resolve or adjudicate disputes arising under ( Read more... )

The always fantastic Dahlia Lithwick of Slate.com has written an article on the laws that kids make up. Unsurprisingly, kids turn out to be pretty sophisticated legal theorists. When you're as relatively powerless as a child, you tend to have very nuanced views about property and fairness.

What schoolyard or kid-created laws do you remember from ( Read more... )

I've found Harlequin's Essential Romantic Kiss patent application! I have to say... not bad. It's no marriage proposal patent application, but I give them full points for actually using patent language to draft it. An IP lawyer was clearly involved and I'd love to know who it was. Personally, I would have added in a few more patent drafting inside ( Read more... )

Though not formally practicing as a lawyer anymore, I still like a bit of legal news. Here for your reading pleasure is a small taste of what is up in the legal field:

1. Best judicial quote of the day: Justice Brown, as part of his reasons rejecting the two co-executors' patently self-serving arguments in the interpretation of their father's will. ( Read more... )

Apparently China is going to start cracking down on pornography and "rumour spreading" on the internet. I find that the article makes it somewhat unclear as to whether China means pornographic and rumour spreading websites in China or whether this is a larger, world-wide offensive to clean up the net on behalf of its citizens. I'm honestly not sure ( Read more... )

I'm not sure if any of my readers are Ontario lawyers, but if you are you've no doubt been deluged with letters and emails from candidates running for election as Benchers of the Law Society of Upper Canada (LSUC). LSUC regulates lawyers in Ontario and the Benchers control LSUC. Because the job requires about 60 hours per month of your time, the ( Read more... )

The more senior lawyers needed on a particular phone call, the lower the likelihood that the person you're trying to call will actually answer their phone.

*sigh*