legal profession
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Learn Your Craft!
Justice Stratas shares his thoughts on succeeding in law school and beyond on the new episode of the Pod Continue reading
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One Does Not Simply
Ensuring access to justice isn’t simply a matter of the legal profession’s being more open to “experiments” Continue reading
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Deregulate All the Lawyers
Why deregulation is the solution to the conflict around the “Statement of Principles” (in addition to being good for access to justice) Continue reading
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Stranger Things: A Defense of Dunsmuir
Did Dunsmuir actually do some good ― at least when it comes to judicial review of law society decisions? Continue reading
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“Intolerant and Illiberal”
The BC Court of Appeal is right to insist on tolerance for an intolerant institution Continue reading
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Access to Justice and Political Ignorance
I will do one last post ― for now, that is, until the Supreme Court’s judgment comes out ― prompted by the British Columbia “hearing fees” case I have been blogging about. In this post, I want to step back a little, and offer some thoughts on the bigger picture of which the “hearing fees” Continue reading
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Legal Self-Services, Part Deux
Just a follow-up to yesterday’s post about the impact of a “self-service mentality” on the legal profession. This mentality, I suggested, is part of what explains the surge in self-representation. Josh Blackman, of South Texas College of Law, says something similar in a blog post, but his perspective is different and more optimistic. Prof. Blackman points Continue reading
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Legal Self-Services
Jim Gardner, of SUNY Buffalo, has an interesting post at The Faculty Lounge, arguing that [t]he capacity to acquire information, shop, travel, and do almost anything without human intermediation is conceived as a right, or at least a new baseline norm. Insistence upon the necessity of human interaction as a condition for completing a transaction Continue reading
Double Aspect 