Archive for the ‘Law Society of Upper Canada’ Category
April 23, 2013
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Via the Toronto Star:
A Toronto criminal lawyer’s Twitter account has sparked outrage online after several offensive tweets were posted in the wake of the Boston bombing.
The tweets were sent last week from Twitter account @Dasilvalaw, which has since been deleted, though several retweets can still be found online.
“I pray for the suspects. May they slay the police army of satan. Death to all police!” reads one posting sent from @Dasilvalaw. Other tweets from that account contained vitriolic responses to offended Twitter users, including “am praying that u get violently raped. May cancer be upon u.!!!”
The lawyer, David Da Silva, 34, said in an emailed response sent Monday to the Star that he is “not the author of any such tweets.”
Asked in a follow-up email if his account had been hacked, the defence lawyer said he is “having this matter investigated at this time.”
Lawyer Nadia Liva, who sent an email to the Star saying she is acting as his counsel, said he is “very concerned” and “we are currently investigating the tweets, which were not authored by Mr. Da Silva.”
I don’t know Da Silva, either personally or professionally, but his website bio is generic: (more…)
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Tags:Twitter, Toronto Star, Law Society of Upper Canada, Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto, Toronto Police Association
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March 6, 2013
I recently came across an ABA Litigation News article by Renee Choy Ohlendorf entitled “Ethical Limits on Rebutting Client’s Disparaging Internet Comments”.
The article discusses Formal Opinion No. 525 by the Los Angeles County Bar Association’s (LACBA) Professional Responsibility and Ethics Committee, which purports to define a lawyer’s professional and ethical duties in responding to a disgruntled former client’s “disparaging public comments” made online, after the lawyer’s representation ended: (more…)
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Tags:Attorney-client privilege, Bar association, California, Confidentiality, Ethics, Law, Lawyer, Professional responsibility
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February 5, 2013
This Saturday (February 9th, 2013) mark my 20th year of practice since my call to the Ontario Bar in 1993.
I could take up this post talking about my experiences—my noble victories and my ignoble defeats— and what I have learned over two decades of having the privilege of membership in what I still consider a noble profession.
I could do that, but I won’t. (more…)
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December 10, 2012
Adam Dodek over at slaw.ca suggests that “Every Lawyer Needs a Guardian Angel“:
“The Ottawa Citizen reported last week that a lawyer who posted information about his own client online was caught in a police sting operation. The Ottawa criminal defence lawyer posted a PDF of disclosure that he received from the Crown in a criminal case against his client. The PDF contained blacked-out information and the lawyer used the web to seek someone to help him read the blacked out portions of the disclosure document. A man in Australia saw the post and contacted the Ottawa police who then caught the Ottawa lawyer in a sting operation. Read the Citizen article for full details.”
Dodek concludes:
One of the things that makes our legal profession in Canada a profession, and a great one at that, is the willingness of senior members of the bar to make themselves available to junior members of the bar for advice. I would suspect that this is true across the country. It is unfortunate that the Ottawa lawyer failed to realize that he actually had many Guardian Angels out there, waiting to help him out. Unfortunately, he didn’t know how to find them. Now, hopefully others will.
This is not a story about a newly called lawyer with little or no professional experience: (more…)
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October 26, 2012
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The Law Society of Upper Canada has spoken about the future of articling.
Well, the Benchers sure spoke a lot during the Convocation meeting— motioning to vote, motioning to defer the debate, motioning for a “friendly amendment” to the deferral of the vote, and, amusingly, Treasurer Tom Conway motioning to one Bencher on the phone to press “*6″ and mute his line and stop talking about “Irene”.
Meanwhile, back at the War Room, my co-panellists and I listened, commented and tweeted. Check out the archive of the live discussion on the Law Society website here. (more…)
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