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UPFRONT
03 Editor's desk
StopSOP and future of self-regulation
06 West update
New legal-training bootcamp expanded
to University of Calgary
08 Ottawa update
Surveyors lose suit against Teranet
OPINION
12 Banking on Corporate
The meaning of corporate life
14 Legal Ethics
Is the criminal justice system broken?
70 Back Page
Should lawyers still blog?
LEGAL REPORTS
58 Workplace law
Parties are held to oral settlement
agreement
64 Intellectual Property
IP practitioners wary of patented
medicine pricing amendments
PEOPLE
56 Firm Insight
Willms & Shier Environmental Lawyers
LLP has grown apace with the rapid
expansion of environmental law and the
mainstreaming of environmentalism in
society
69 Career Path
Omar Ha Redeye has not had the most
typical path to the heart of the legal
establishment, but he's always wanted
to fight the good fight
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COVER STORY
SELF-REGULATION
The customs of the legal profession are feeling the weight of
21st-century stresses
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FEATURE
ANNUAL SURVEY
Our annual Corporate Counsel
Survey found that in-house counsel
are loyal to existing firms
PROFILE
CROSS
EXAMINED
When advising on data
strategies, Kirsten
Thompson can jump
from detailed technical
questions to a creative
human approach
SPECIAL REPORT
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Changes to IP law necessitate new
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