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Intelligent information meets innovative technology in an online legal research service that intuitively works with you to enable your success. www.westlawecarswell.com 20 APRIL 2009 www. mag.com 12582 MM2 01/09

• Cover
• Cover: Controlling the cost centre
• Editors Desk
• Regional Wrap-Up
• Managing Partner: Catherine Smith, Best Buy Canada
• Associates: An eye-opening experience
• Law office management: Time for going it alone?
• Tech Support: Belt tightening in turbulent times
• Legal ethics: The thick view of professionalism
• 2009 software and technology product guide
• Litigation: No longer business as usual
• Energy and environment: The regulatory Wild West
• Back Page: Unclogging the arteries of liberty