Award The Inaugural Precedent Innovation Awards People, projects and ideas that are improving the profession
Award Breanna Needham’s Robing Room Campaign A public initiative that pressured the Law Society of Ontario to convert its spacious men’s robing room into a gender-neutral space
Award The Inaugural Precedent Innovation Awards: Lenczner Slaght’s R&R Lounge A place for students to relax during summer-job interviews on Bay Street
Award The Inaugural Precedent Innovation Awards: The Zone at Borden Ladner Gervais A tech-forward meeting room, designed to foster creative discussions in the workplace
Award Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt’s Undertaking Management Tool A cloud-based platform that streamlines one of the most expensive stages of a lawsuit
Award The Inaugural Precedent Innovation Awards: Gowling WLG’s Third-Party Demand Manual A user-friendly web application that makes it easy to answer one of the thorniest questions in banking law
Award The Inaugural Precedent Innovation Awards: Kathryn Hendrikx’s The Ontario Family Law Forms Project A software program that helps family-law litigants fill out paperwork on the cheap
Editor's Note To innovate in law, we need to think small The trick is to look at your daily work and find smart ways to make it better
Profile To Arieh Bloom, the world of estate law is “commercial litigation on steroids” Estate litigation has it all: family secrets, human drama and courtroom plot twists
Advice The workplace birthday dilemma Birthday celebrations can help foster a positive corporate culture. As long as they’re more personal than a monthly cake-in-the-kitchen day