Canada

Widow says Apple wanted death certificate, will and court order to reveal spouse’s password

When David Bush died last year, he provided for his wife, Peggy, in his will. But it didn’t occur to the Victoria, British Columbia, couple that they needed an estate plan concerning access to his electronic devices. Although Peggy Bush had the password to her husband’s iPad, she didn’t know…

Jan 20, 2016 11:35 AM CST

Axiom expands into Canada by acquiring part of Cognition

Axiom has made a big move into Canada by purchasing the general counsel business of Cognition, one of the largest legal services providers in the Great White North. Cognition, an alternative legal services provider and law firm, represents corporate clients with law departments and small businesses that don’t have internal…

Jan 14, 2016 3:15 PM CST

Ogletree Deakins opens first office in Canada

An international labor and employment boutique has opened its first office in Canada with a group of lawyers from Gowling Lafleur Henderson. A news release by Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart announcing its new Toronto office says only that it is “led by a group of prominent lawyers from…

Jan 13, 2016 4:30 PM CST

Fake letter on his law firm letterhead seeks to scam local businesses, attorney warns

A fake letter on his law firm letterhead is being used to scam local businesses, a Canadian attorney says. In addition to alerting police in St. John’s, attorney Bob Buckingham has gone public, asking anyone who is presented with such a letter to report it to authorities and even take…

Dec 18, 2015 3:45 PM CST

Did juror’s crush on prosecutor affect verdict? Defense lawyer mulls appeal options

No one else knew that Juror No. 6 had an unrequited crush on the prosecutor, it seems, before a guilty verdict was rendered earlier this year in a Toronto-area drug case. But afterward she made her feelings known in a series of notes to Robert Johnston, who is married, and…

Dec 14, 2015 10:25 AM CST

Wal-Mart-based law firm is in an expansion mode

Lawyers who work at Canadian law firm Axess Law have a proven ability to appeal to Wal-Mart shoppers. The discount law firm has offices in 10 Wal-Marts in the Toronto area, and it’s planning to expand to Ottawa early next year, the Financial Post reports. By the end of next…

Dec 8, 2015 8:46 AM CST

Teenager whose prank calls sent armed SWAT teams to dozens of US homes got 16 months

A single Canadian teenager made dozens of prank phone calls to police throughout the U.S., sending SWAT teams to hold innocent individuals at gunpoint at their homes as authorities investigated his false claims of dangerous crimes in progress. But because of both legal loopholes and the teen’s location on the…

Nov 25, 2015 2:30 PM CST

Corporate BigLaw partner held hostage at luxury hotel in Mali is safe

A corporate partner at a Canadian BigLaw firm is safe after being held hostage at a luxury hotel in Bamako, the capital of Mali, on Friday. Pierre Boivin of McCarthy Tetrault and other Canadians known to have been in the Radisson hotel as it was stormed by Islamic extremists armed…

Nov 23, 2015 11:50 AM CST

Black US citizen seeks refugee status in Canada on account of his race

A U.S. citizen is seeking refugee status in Canada because he says he’s afraid of being killed by police in this country because he is black. Kyle Lydell Canty, 30, argued his case at an Oct. 23 hearing before Canada’s Immigration and Refugee Board in Vancouver, B.C., CBC News reports.…

Oct 27, 2015 4:30 PM CDT

Allen & Overy, first UK Magic Circle firm to open in Toronto, is closing its office there

Only a year after Allen & Overy became the first of London’s leading corporate law firms to open an office in Toronto, the so-called Magic Circle firm is closing the Canadian outpost. The move follows the announced plan of founding Toronto partner Francois Duquette to take an in-house job at…

Sep 29, 2015 11:35 AM CDT

Served with process Tuesday, man shows up at court Wednesday with revving chainsaw, police say

Served with process Tuesday in a family-law case, the respondent showed up at a Canadian courthouse Wednesday morning—holding a revving chainsaw, police say. Sheriff’s officers at the family division of the Supreme Court of Newfoundland and Labrador Family Division saw him coming and prevented the unidentified 43-year-old from entering the…

Sep 2, 2015 12:50 PM CDT

Canadian lawsuit seeks $578M over dump of hacked info from Ashley Madison dating site

Two Canadian law firms filed a class action lawsuit in Windsor, Ontario, on Thursday over a much-publicized data dump this week by unknown hackers of information about users of the Ashley Madison dating site. Although a disabled widower is currently the only named plaintiff, attorney Ted Charney of Charney Lawyers,…

Aug 24, 2015 5:45 AM CDT

As suspects await trial in $18M maple syrup heist, cartel focuses on farmers who flout sales rules

A massive heist of some $18 million worth of Canadian maple syrup, eventually resulting in more than two dozen arrests, put Quebec’s maple syrup cartel in the headlines in 2012. But as the suspects accused in the criminal case of stealing from the cartel’s warehoused stockpile await trials now scheduled…

Aug 20, 2015 4:05 PM CDT

Powerhouse labor boutique Littler opens first office in Canada

A growing international labor and employment boutique based in the U.S. has opened its first office in Canada. Littler Mendelson announced the new Toronto office Tuesday, saying that it will initially be staffed with seven lawyers from two Canadian firms. The office will be the 67th for the 1,000-attorney law…

Aug 5, 2015 4:40 PM CDT

Man charged in law office bombing case is having a hard time finding defense counsel

A man accused of sending letter bombs to two Canadian law offices and an auto repair shop where his ex-wife works is having a hard time finding an attorney to represent him in his criminal case. Guido Amsel, 49, said at a Thursday court hearing he hadn’t been able to…

Jul 10, 2015 1:05 PM CDT