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UPFRONT
01 Editor's desk
Evidence is slim on how good character
questions protect public
06 West update
Disinherited twins win 70 per cent of
deceased's estate
08 Ontario update
Building a 'feminist legal ecosystem for
rural areas'
10 Quebec update
Magpie River granted personhood
FEATURES
26 Corporate commercial
Megadeals have lawyers looking at laws
governing the Competition Bureau
30 Productivity
Six ways to work smarter and take back
control
OPINION
12 Marketing
Knowing how to nurture the clients and
work you want
32 Back page
Post-pandemic strategy should address
mental health toll COVID has taken
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COVER STORY
GOOD CHARACTER,
BAD PREDICTOR
Law society process doesn't take into account over-policing,
wrongful convictions and criminalization of everyday
movements of racialized applicants, say critics
SPECIAL REPORT
LEGAL FEES
SURVEY
One key difference in this year's
survey is that more respondents
have lowered or will lower their fees
PROFILE
CROSS
EXAMINED
Paul Saunders says
COVID created a new
sense of urgency for
the change he knew
needed to happen in
the legal industry
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Rapid, well-planned internal
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lend credibility to result
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LEGAL REPORT
FAMILY LAW
Business is booming as the
pandemic amplifies stressors that
might typically occur in families
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