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We just saw the U.S. Starbucks close down its outlets for several hours to allow for sensitivity training of staff following an event at a Philadelphia branch where an associate racially discriminated against two black men, refusing to let them use the washroom...

A story surfaced recently about jurors in some cases consulting the Internet to study information about the case, which info never formed part of the evidence. Some of these incidents resulted in mistrials or near mistrials. Aside from admonishing jurors not to do...

I'm happy today. The reason for this joy is that I was not invited to attend the royal wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. . Before I celebrated my non invitation, I checked my emails again today to ensure there was no last minute message from the wedding hosts...

Spent some time in Fort Myers only to be disappointed once again by the lack of promised wild animal sitings. Please see video below for the whole story.  

The end is near. Robots are taking over. Even Elon Musk noted, “ I’m close to the cutting edge in Al and it scares the hell out of me. It’s capable of vastly more than almost anyone knows and the rate of Improvement is exponential.” The human touch is waning. I wanted...

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...

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 house...

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...

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...

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 even...