Flex Blog

By Heather Cross “May you live in transitional times” could be the modern criminal defence bar’s equivalent of the ancient Chinese curse, “May you live in interesting times.”  The Ontario Court of Appeal’s decision in R. v. Picard illustrates the level of uncertainty that exists and...

any lawyers, in particular personal injury lawyers, are paid through contingency fee arrangements (“CFAs”), where the lawyers charge their clients a fee based on a percentage of the damages recovered by their clients (the amount of money the client ‘wins’). It wasn’t until 2004 that the Solicitors...

At the Law Society of Upper Canada’s June 2017 Convocation the Rules of Professional Conduct were amended to add a new rule (Rule 3.7-7A) governing a lawyer’s professional obligations when leaving a law firm.  This is a welcome amendment. Previously, there was a dearth of available...

By Emily Lukaweski* Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL) came into force July 1, 2014.  It established a set of rules for sending marketing and promotional emails, texts or other electronic messages, referred to as Commercial Electronic Messages (CEMs).   These rules apply to law...

While civil claim e-filing has been available since 2015 in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, it has been limited to the Small Claims Court Division (i.e. for claims less than $25,000.00).  A new pilot project is expanding e-filing for claims above $25,000.00, but there are some limitations...