Sage Advice for Lawyers (and Other Mortals)

These pearls of wisdom originally appeared in Last Word-Supreme Advocacy ( http://supremeadvocacy.ca/top-ten-thoughts-criminal-civil-lawyer-43-years-profession/) Top Ten Thoughts from a Criminal and Civil Lawyer After 43 Years in the Profession After almost 43 years...

Free Ipad for Sale

As Gilbert and Sullivan said in Pinafore,  “Things are seldom what they seem, skim milk masquerades as cream.” A while back I received a phone call purportedly from the Canadian Bar Insurance Association (CBIA)  saying that if I simply request a quote for...

Why Fi?

I happened to be at a Starbucks in Florida recently and I decided to access their free WIFI.  Not surprisingly you have to click on and accept their terms and conditions.  I opened the link and I believe I am probably the only person who ever read this stuff, other...

Non Insurance Insurance

I notice occasionally insurance companies deny claims.  For some inexplicable reason or other, they refuse to pay.  I have a solution. How about the establishment of an insurance company that would insure against denial of claims by other insurance companies.  So if...

Litigating With Love

I had a couple of people ask me recently if I knew any collaborative family lawyers.  They insisted on one.  I for one have mixed feelings about the process. It got me thinking. If it is as effective as its proponents say, why don’t they crank up the approach...