Duhaime's LawMag
The world's first online legal magazine, demystified significant law and justice events around the world, published from 1996 to 2014.
Canadian lawyers can, sometimes unintenionally, be fun! We're not all staid Q.C.'s, wearing reading glasses off to the Bench & Bar events to [REDACTED].
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Categories: Crime and Criminal Law, Legal History
Since 1979, in the United States, there have been too many murders of the icons of justice, judges.
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Gentlemen, dust off your armour and man your wigs.
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Categories: Elder Law, Wills, Estates, Probate
When the sleepy-headed concepts of probate law and law reform come together, don't expect an iPhone.
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I'm torn between t-shirts: I Love LA .... or I Survived LA.
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Categories: Human Rights, Legal History
Not so long ago, those with legal power (men) thought that giving women license to practice law would harm the 'natural and proper timidity and delicacy which belongs to the female sex'.
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Categories: Crime and Criminal Law, Current Events, Law Enforcement
As London rioters are arrested and appear before judges, it would be an awkward moment if they recognize each other.
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Categories: Legal Profession and Lawyers
Conduct unbecoming is a catch-all prohibition in the professional conduct handbooks of almost all law societies and bar associations. Because it eludes clear definition, it ever hovers over lawyers - even when they are not at the office - like a sword of Damocles.
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Categories: Commercial Law, Legal History
The signature has always been the great, golden key of the law but the Internet may soon be changing all that.
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While the voices for animal law are getting louder, there are things you can do now to protect your pet.
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