Entries for September 2008
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Categories: Legal Profession and Lawyers
The PR tanks are rolling out in British Columbia as lawyers take up arms against a fundamental rule change proposal suggested not just by an elected Attorney General but in the back drop, in black gown and red sash, the sheepish grins of superior court judges.
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Categories: Legal Profession and Lawyers, Litigation
Trial, for the layperson (read "non-lawyer") is a source of tremendous stress and nervousness. You rarely see standing-room only line-ups at the public galleries of the Courthouse. But for lawyers, they are masochistic labours of love; a chunk of time where the stress is through the roof but so, too, is the intensity.
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