The Every Lawyer

President Brad Regehr meets with Dr. Val Napoleon and Signa Daum Shanks to discuss Call to Action 28, which calls on law schools to require students to take a course in Aboriginal people and the law.  Dr. Val Napoleon is an associate professor and Law Foundation Professor of Aboriginal Justice and Governance at the University of Victoria. She co-founded UVic’s Indigenous Law Research Unit and the...

Bonus Episode presented by CBA National, After the pandemic: The rule of law in a climate disrupted world  Ep 11 In this month’s episode, Yves Faguy speaks with Jocelyn Stacey, an assistant professor at the Peter A. Allard School of Law and author of The Constitution of the Environmental Emergency , to discuss how climate change is likely to disrupt how we govern ourselves under the rule of law. T...

President Brad Regehr discusses Calls to Action 34 and 40 with Harold R. Johnson and Stacey Soldier. They speak on the problem of over-incarceration of Indigenous peoples and how the system failed them. Harold Johnson  is a lawyer with Master in Law from Harvard and 10 years as a Saskatchewan Crown prosecutor under his belt. He’s also a prolific author, writing both fiction and non-fiction. Stacey...

Bonus Episode presented by CBA National, After the pandemic: A Conversation with the Chief Justice of Canada Ep 10 Yves Faguy speaks with the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, Richard Wagner, to discuss the court’s work during the pandemic, systemic racism, and his temporary role as administrator of the Government of Canada until a new Governor General is appointed.  This episode is pr...

Bonus Episode presented by CBA National, After the pandemic: The future of justice, Ep 9 In this month’s episode, we talk with Jordan Furlong about a wave of regulatory reforms coming out of the U.S. that are having an impact on the legal industry, and how Canadian jurisdictions should prepare. Jordan is one of the leading analysts of the global legal market. He has written extensively on a range...

Conversations with the President: The President’s take on TRC’s Calls to Action, Ep 3: Cultural Competency Training Brad Regehr discusses Call to Action number 27's aim at making sure practising lawyers receive cultural competency training, with Jennifer David and Michael McDonald, Q.C.   Jennifer David (Chapleau Cree First Nation) is an experienced communicator, project manager, planner and facil...

Bonus Episode presented by CBA National, After the pandemic: Protecting the workers of the future, Ep 8 Yves Faguy speaks with York University law professor Dr. David Doorey about needed reforms to our employment and labour laws. In this month’s episode, we talk with Dr. David Doorey about the impact of the gig economy on workers’ rights, legislative efforts to protect autonomous workers, how the...

Conversations with the President: The President’s take on TRC’s Calls to Action, Ep 2: Adequate Education Funding For his first episode as host of Conversations with the President, Brad talks with Alyssa Bird and Robin Sutherland about The Truth and Reconciliation’s eleventh call to action is a demand for “adequate funding to end the backlog of First Nations students seeking post-secondary educati...

Bonus Episode presented by CBA National, After the pandemic: The future of justice, Ep 7 Yves Faguy discusses privacy law and data protection with privacy and cybersecurity lawyer Sinziana Gutiu.  Gutiu shares her insights into trends shaping the privacy debate at home and abroad, the impact of the Schrems II ruling, Quebec’s effort at updating its privacy law regime, and coming tech developments...

Conversations with the President: The President’s take on TRC’s Calls to Action, Ep 1: Meet Bradley Regehr, CBA President 2020 We are chatting with Brad Regehr, the new Canadian Bar Association President and the first Indigenous person to take on the role.  We’re talking about reconciliation, COVID-19 and even his amateur theatre career. His podcast series Conversations with the President - The Pr...

We receive Eduardo Ustaran and Timothy Banks to discuss Privacy Law and its international developments. What was the European Union/United States Privacy Shield and what does this mean for Canada? What do non-privacy law specialists need to know about this and what’s the future for data transfers? Eduardo Ustaran is a partner with Hogan Lovells in London, where he’s co-head of the privacy and cybe...

We discuss the effects of COVID-19 on the job market for young lawyers with Adam Norget and how to stand out of the crowd while looking for work, with Mark Holthe. Adam Norget is vice-chair of the CBA National Young Lawyers Section and labour and employment lawyer with Neuman Thompson, in Edmonton. Mark Holthe is an immigration lawyer in Lethbridge, Alberta. He’s been facilitating an online series...

Conversations with the President: The state of the profession, Ep 9: Aly Haji and Allan Rock For her last episode as host of Conversations with the President, Vivene Salmon talks with Aly Haji about why millennials are leaving law firms; and Allan Rock on his carrer as a Liberal Justice Minister, President Emeritus of Ottawa University and ambassador to the United Nations. Visit www.cba.org/dispat...

Arleen Huggins discusses systemic racism in the Canadian legal profession through her experience and expertise as an employment and human rights lawyer. What it has been like for you to practice as a Black lawyer in Toronto? Is the law an effective tool at combatting systemic racism? What advice does Arleen has for racialized lawyers and for allies going forward? Arleen Huggins is a partner with K...

Bonus Episode presented by CBA National and CBA Futures, After the pandemic: The future of justice, Ep 6 In this sixth and final episode in our series, Justice Minister David Lametti and CBA President Vivene Salmon talks about the investments the federal government and the provinces need to make in the administration of justice to improve access to justice.  They also discuss how the global racial...

Conversations with the President: The state of the profession, Ep 8: Mentorship, Sponsorship and Diversity Vivene talks with Ruth Goba about mentorship and sponsorship and how they navigate the Canadian legal space as black women.  Over the course of a career a lawyer can seek out a variety of mentors to provide a number of services – teacher, coach, advisor or confidante. It’s becoming clear that...

Bonus Episode presented by CBA National and CBA Futures: After the pandemic: The future of justice, Ep 5: In this fifth episode, Joshua Sealy-Harrington discusses COVID 19 and the impact it’s had on global protests calling for an end to systemic racism. He also shares his thoughts on how our justice system is embedded in a broader framework of capitalism that is deployed against marginalized peopl...

Conversations with the President: The state of the profession, Ep 7: Vivene talks with Jamie Benizri and Monica Goyal about entrepreneurship and how the business of law will be different after COVID. How to become a legal influenceur? How to protect our brand? What technology is going to be most important as we move into post-pandemic recovery? And more! Jamie Benizri describes himself as a lawyer...

Bonus Episode presented by CBA National and CBA Futures: After the pandemic: The future of justice, Ep 4: In this fourth episode, Karen Eltis talks about the rush to digitalize our courts system, the justice system’s reliance on private platforms, and why we need to think about the security of our data. Karen Eltis is a law professor at Ottawa U and a faculty member at its Centre for Law, Technolo...

Candice Pollack and Lexy Smith-Doughty tell us more about the virtual gatherings “ Coffee in the times of COVID ”; events to facilitate connection and mentorship.  The online meetups bring junior lawyers and law students together with mentors to discuss pertinent issues in the legal field that have been changed by our new virtual reality. Candice Ashley Pollack is the communication officer for the...

Bonus Episode presented by CBA National and CBA Futures: After the pandemic: The future of justice, Ep 3: Yves Faguy speaks with Cori Ghitter of the Law Society of Alberta and legal market analyst Jordan Furlong about legal education, how it has been affected by the pandemic, and what needs to change for it to address the needs of a modern legal industry. In this third episode, the guests talk abo...

Melanie Del Rizzo and Erin Brook explore the Divorce Act and the sweeping changes when Bill C-78 comes into effect.  Melanie Del Rizzo has a broad legal practice which includes family law in St. John’s, Newfoundland. She’s a certified mediator and was past chair of the National Family Law Section of the CBA. Erin Brook is a formal federal prosecutor who specializes now in family law out of Nanaimo...

Bonus Episode presented by CBA National and CBA Futures: After the pandemic: The future of justice, Ep 2: Yves Faguy speaks with Laura van Wyngaarden of Diligen and Peter Aprile of Counter Tax Lawyers to discuss how COVID-19 could change the way we work in the legal sector. In this second episode, the guests talk about how the legal market may or may not change after the pandemic, what the motivat...

Conversations with the President: The state of the profession, Ep 6: In this episode, Martine Boucher and Vivene discuss the impact today's reality can have on small and solo legal practices, many of which lack the resources of larger firms, and are not always as adept and knowing how technology can help them to adapt faster and more efficiently to change. Martine Boucher , founder of the boutique...

Bonus Episode presented by CBA National and CBA Futures: After The Pandemic, The Future of Justice, Ep 1 In this first episode, the guests share their experience in trying to launch projects that were aimed at making justice more accessible for regular Canadians, but then ran into roadblocks. They offer some ideas about what level of effort is needed to get reform of our justice system onto the le...