Independent Women’s Forum (IWF) and Independent Women’s Law Center (IWLC) filed a public comment on Friday urging the Department of Education to maintain due process protections for individuals accused of sexual misconduct on college campuses.   On March 11, 2021, President Joe Biden directed a comprehensive review of regulations implementing Title IX of the Education […]

New York Attorney General Letitia James today released the following statement after the National Rifle Association (NRA) dropped a countersuit filed the same day Attorney General James filed her lawsuit to dissolve the organization last summer: “The NRA dropping its countersuit today in federal court is an implicit admission that their strategy would never prevail. […]

Borden Ladner Gervais LLP (BLG) is pleased to announce that The Honourable Louise Arbour, C.C, G.O.Q., is the recipient of this year’s Symons Medal. The Symons Medal is one of Canada’s most prestigious honours, which Madame Arbour is receiving for her many contributions to the public good. A Senior Counsel at BLG, Madame Arbour was the […]

Credit: Philippe Landreville Harvard Law School announced today the appointment of Canadian Supreme Court Justice Rosalie Silberman Abella as the Samuel LL.M. ’55 S.J.D. ’59 and Judith Pisar Visiting Professor of Law effective July 1, 2022. Justice Abella will serve an initial three-year term that will run until 2025. She is the first Canadian jurist […]

SCC Justice Rosalie Abella will serve as Pisar visiting professor at Harvard Law School for three years Rosalie Silberman Abella, justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, will serve as Pisar visiting professor of law at Harvard Law School, effective July 1, 2022 for a three-year term. Abella is the first Canadian jurist appointed to […]

Thomas Robin MacLeod (« Tam ») Davis, a prominent Montreal lawyer, has passed away, aged 73, in Knowlton, Quebec. As a boy, Tam grew up in Montreal and attended Bishop’s College School in Lennoxville, Quebec. Upon graduating from McGill with his B.A. in History, he went abroad to the Sorbonne in Paris, where he took a diploma […]

Notice-of-Motion-and-MotionDChauvin Source : New York Law Journal MAY 4th 2021

After close to 25 immensely rewarding years (17 of which as CLO/ GC), I am retiring from Air Canada to embark, eventually, on new adventures- to which I am looking forward after taking some time to reconnect, “reset”, and reorient. Throughout the intense challenges, each of you has contributed in some way to the successes […]

Prosecutors obtained the search warrants as part of an investigation into whether Rudy Giuliani broke lobbying laws when he was President Donald J. Trump’s personal lawyer. The search warrants mark a major development in the long-running investigation against Rudolph Giuliani. The search warrants mark a major development in the long-running investigation against Rudolph Giuliani.Credit…Doug Mills/The […]

Prosecutors obtained the search warrants as part of an investigation into whether Rudy Giuliani broke lobbying laws when he was President Donald J. Trump’s personal lawyer. Federal investigators on Wednesday seized cellphones and computers from Rudolph W. Giuliani, the former mayor of New York City who became President Donald J. Trump’s personal lawyer, stepping up a criminal […]