In the Ask-Me-Anything segment of our legal ethics / professional regulation interview with Brooke MacKenzie, we cover the questions submitted by the Lawyered Patreon community.
🔵What do you think of the Law Society's recent motion to implement a mandatory minimum wage for articling students?
🔵How can lawyers ethically defend their clients in cases where they know that their client is "guilty" / liable for the thing that they are charged with?
🔵Are there best “billing” practices to ensure that the client is being fairly charged while also ensuring that the lawyer’s actual work is reflected?
🔵 What are some resources that lawyers (particularly lawyers in solo or boutique practices) can employ when faced with ethical dilemmas?
In part three of our legal ethics / professional regulation interview with Brooke MacKenzie, we speak about the degree to which a lawyer’s duty of confidentiality applies to keeping information from their own spouse.
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In part two of our legal ethics / professional regulation interview with Brooke MacKenzie, we speak about the conflicts scenarios that are triggered by multiple branches of the same law firm.
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In part one of our legal ethics / professional regulation interview with Brooke MacKenzie, we chat about a lawyer’s duty of technological competence
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On this episode, we chat with civil/regulatory lawyer Brooke MacKenzie about the tricky issues of legal ethics and professional conduct.
Topics: duty of technological competence; conflict issues in multi-national law firms; lawyers' duty of confidentiality re their spouses; and our Ask-Me-Anything Segment.
⚫ What is the practical effect of a lawyer's duty of technological competence? (5:46)
⚫ How have courts addressed whether branches of large law firms are "part" of the same firm? (25:56)
⚫ Are lawyers required to keep their client's information from their own spouses? (15:14)
⚫ Our Ask-Me-Anything segment, featuring questions submitted by patrons of the Lawyered community (39:09)
🔵What do you think of the Law Society's recent motion to implement a mandatory minimum wage for articling students? (39:30)
🔵How can lawyers ethically defend their clients in cases where they know that their client is "guilty" / liable for the thing that they are charged with? (42:56)
🔵Are there best “billing” practices to ensure that the client is being fairly charged while also ensuring that the lawyer’s actual work is reflected? (46:59)
🔵 What are some resources that lawyers (particularly lawyers in solo or boutique practices) can employ when faced with ethical dilemmas? (50:57)
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In part three of our freedom of expression law interview with Abbas Kassam, we chat about the role of the public interest in the decisions of anti-SLAPP motions
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In our Ask-Me-Anything segment about freedom of expression law, we ask Abbas Kassam the questions submitted by members of the Lawyered patreon community:
🔵 What role do comedians have in forming the limits of freedom of expression?
🔵 Should there be any differences in how speech laws apply in the digital versus non-digital space?
🔵 Do you anticipate that the Freedom Convoy (and similar movements) will change the conversation /laws regarding freedom of expression?
🔵 What is it that keeps you engaged in freedom of expression projects?
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In part two of our freedom of expression law interview with Abbas Kassam, we discuss the relationship between comedy, discrimination and free speech.
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In part one of our freedom of expression law interview with Abbas Kassam, we chat about section 2(b) concerns triggered by Bill 5's reconfiguration of Toronto City Council.
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It's our season 8 premiere, and we're chatting about freedom of expression issues with Abbas Kassam, from the Ryerson Centre for Free Expression!
Topics: Toronto's council reconfiguration, Quebec comedy at the SCC, anti-SLAPP motions and more.
⚫ How did the reconfiguration of Toronto's city council impact the rights of political speech? (5:46)
⚫ How does the right to dignity interact with the right to free expression in the context of comedy? (15:14)
⚫ How are courts dealing with anti-SLAPP motions? (25:56)
⚫ Our Ask-Me-Anything segment, featuring questions submitted by patrons of the Lawyered community (36:36)
🔵 What role do comedians have in forming the limits of freedom of expression? (37:25)
🔵 Should there be any differences in how speech laws apply in the digital versus non-digital space? (41:01)
🔵 Do you anticipate that the Freedom Convoy (and similar movements) will change the conversation /laws regarding freedom of expression? (43:33)
🔵 What is it that keeps you engaged in freedom of expression projects? (47:38)
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