3 Geeks (LexBlog Canada)

I am writing this blog post on the plane as I fly back to Toronto from Halifax, having just spent the last three days at the CALL/ACBD annual conference. The conference was fantastic, highlights for me included an opening session with Jordan Furlong who suggested we are entering an era of Legal Intelligence – a topic...

[Ed. Note: Please welcome guest blogger, Colin Lachance, CEO of Compass/vLex Canada. – GL] At no fewer than four conferences this lovely month of May, I will be speaking about artificial intelligence in law. Each event has a different focus (regulation, impact, libraries, family law), but as my comments in each will spring from my personal...

Earlier this month, we were debating how to approach a client problem. There were two differing points of view, both had merit and either could be right. Either would get us to the finish line, solve the problem, score the run – insert your analogy of choice. But each position also had its drawbacks. Someone...

While some law schools in the US are closing, in Canada, a prospective new one received preliminary approval in late December 2017  by The Federation of Law Societies of Canada, Canadian Common Law Program Approval Committee on its application to create a new law school.  This is the next step in the school’s bid to establish...

A couple months back, I was giving a talk in a far off land (Canada) and the moderator introduced me as “the most internet famous person [he’d] ever met.” This was genteel nonsense, all the more endearing because it was absurd on its face. He was doing obvious violence to the concept of fame. Googling...

The legal market consolidated a bit more today in Canada as DLAPiper LLP announced that Davis LLP will be joining the Swiss verein’s North American arm as its newest member firm in April 2015.  The Am Law Daily, summed up the change in Canada over the past few years the best: “DLA Piper is just...

Image [cc] Shane Trueblood Jordan Furlong and I need to take our show on the road. In our usual “Dan & Jane” fashion, we inadvertently tackled another topic. My original post threw down the gauntlet and Jordan, in his always well-stated fashion, answered the call. Below is his response – with a promise of more to come. Thanks Jordan! Update 11-4-13: Jordan provides a more...

Many believed that Canadian leverage was too high compared to US and UK firms, but the Canadian economy is stable, our lawyers are talented and the merger announcements keep coming. Until recently, the Canadian market has been relatively sheltered from major international mergers. Until Norton Rose merged with Ogilvy Renault as of June 1, 2011, and...

At 3 Geeks, we have previously touched on the concept of Third Party Litigation Funding (TPLF) and its potential impact on the profession. Today we are fortunate to have Danielle Olofsson, a Knowledge Management Lawyer from Montréal Canada, bring us the Canadian perspective. This guest post highlights the continued evolution and growth of TPLF along...

We would like to thank Jordan Furlong, Simon Fodden and Steve Matthews for awarding 3 Geeks and a Law Blog with the 2011 Friend of the North ClawBies Award. It is quite an honor (or should I say, honour) especially being mentioned along some wonderful blogs like Mary Abraham’s Above and Beyond KM, Ron Friedmann’s...

Jordan Furlong’s question on The Future of CLE posted on LinkedIn got me thinking. The question leveraged my prior 3 Geeks post on the Googlization of CLE and included his comments about how CLE’s role could shift towards professional development. So what if we take a step beyond Googlization (which is so “3 months ago”...

While monitoring Canada’s LegalIT 3.0 conference, I noticed something — I’ve seen all of this before. Let me start from the beginning… I’m a conference “lurker”. By this, I mean that I try to find out what’s being said at conferences that I’m not physically attending. I’m able to do this because those people that...