The managing partners at two Toronto law firms—Dickinson Wright and Fogler, Rubinoff—talk about their approach to taking on a large number of the Minden Gross lawyers
Daniel Fish is the editor of Precedent, where he sets the overall direction of the publication. He has received several leading journalism awards for his long-form feature writing. In 2017, he won a National Magazine Award for his profile of Michael Bryant, the former attorney general of Ontario. Then, in 2019, he earned a second National Magazine Award for his investigation into the high rate of mental illness in the legal profession. Daniel is a graduate of Carleton University’s journalism program, and he holds a master’s in English from the University of Guelph.
If you want to impress (and keep) your best talent, you’ll need to scrap the annual review and end your obsession with origination credits
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About two months after the firm announced its impending collapse, the majority of its lawyers have landed new jobs
Is reform possible?
To George Strathy, the former chief justice of Ontario, law firms need a moratorium on after-hours emails and phone calls
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At 33, McKeown is one of the defence bar’s most talented appellate lawyers
He built a powerhouse Bay Street firm and witnessed its collapse. What can he teach the profession?
“It may take a lot of work and patience to get to a point where my client trusts me to do my job”