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If you have a fabulous associate on your team, make no mistake: the competition is planning to poach that person away. S...
08/25/2025

If you have a fabulous associate on your team, make no mistake: the competition is planning to poach that person away. So how can you retain your best talent? To start, you’ll need to scrap the annual review and end your obsession with origination credits.

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

Is your firm growing? Do you need to fill a gap after a recent departure? Use The Precedent A-List to find qualified can...
08/20/2025

Is your firm growing? Do you need to fill a gap after a recent departure? Use The Precedent A-List to find qualified candidates. The job board is cost-effective, easy to use and exclusive for lawyers.

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The demands on in-house counsel have never been so high. In this story, we serve up practical advice on how to succeed i...
08/14/2025

The demands on in-house counsel have never been so high. In this story, we serve up practical advice on how to succeed in a corporate legal department.

How to succeed in a corporate legal department

This year, announce your incoming first-year associates on The Precedent A-List. Once your posts are live, they’ll appea...
08/13/2025

This year, announce your incoming first-year associates on The Precedent A-List. Once your posts are live, they’ll appear on social media and in The A-List newsletter. Get started today.

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For much of his life, Brian Studniberg, a partner at Henein Hutchison Robitaille LLP, knew he was different. At 37, he f...
08/06/2025

For much of his life, Brian Studniberg, a partner at Henein Hutchison Robitaille LLP, knew he was different. At 37, he finally discovered why. “It created the most profound sense of relief,” he recalls. “It felt almost like serenity. I knew at last that what I was experiencing was a consequence of other forces—that there was a deeper cause.”

And what the legal profession can learn from his story

This hireback season, many articling students landed a plum associate position. But others accepted a role on the docume...
07/23/2025

This hireback season, many articling students landed a plum associate position. But others accepted a role on the document-review team, signed a short-term contract or opted out of the hireback process to escape a toxic workplace. “In other words, the transition to post-articling life takes many forms,” writes Daniel Waldman, a partner at Dickinson Wright. In this column, he offers advice on how to navigate a wide range of hireback outcomes.

Whether you landed your dream job, accepted a short-term contract or weren’t hired back at all, here’s how to succeed

Have you recently added a lawyer to your firm? Give your new colleague a proper welcome on The Precedent A-List. You can...
07/17/2025

Have you recently added a lawyer to your firm? Give your new colleague a proper welcome on The Precedent A-List. You can create an account and start sharing news today.

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Throughout her career, Shara Roy has made a name for herself as a changemaker. Today, she’s committed to using her posit...
07/15/2025

Throughout her career, Shara Roy has made a name for herself as a changemaker. Today, she’s committed to using her position to improve the profession in a meaningful way.

As chief legal counsel at EY Canada, Roy is in a position to reshape law for the better

Is your firm growing? Do you need to fill a gap after a recent departure? Use The Precedent A-List to find qualified can...
07/10/2025

Is your firm growing? Do you need to fill a gap after a recent departure? Use The Precedent A-List to find qualified candidates. The job board is cost-effective, easy to use and exclusively for lawyers.

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Now that hireback season is over, we’ve published our annual Bay Street Ranking—in which we sort the largest Toronto law...
07/08/2025

Now that hireback season is over, we’ve published our annual Bay Street Ranking—in which we sort the largest Toronto law offices by their individual hireback rates. Check out the final tally on our website.

Find out which Toronto law firms hired back the most articling students this year

From the Archives: The causes of alcohol abuse in the legal profession are more complicated than you might think.
07/03/2025

From the Archives: The causes of alcohol abuse in the legal profession are more complicated than you might think.

What’s the real reason lawyers drink?

In a short-but-revealing interview, Marie Henein spoke to us about her dog, what she values most in colleagues and when ...
06/26/2025

In a short-but-revealing interview, Marie Henein spoke to us about her dog, what she values most in colleagues and when she’s at her happiest. She also offered up some pithy advice to new lawyers: “Focus on what you can control: yourself, your level of skill and the quality of your work. Everything else in this business is largely out of your control.”

The well-known Toronto lawyer on her dog, what she values in colleagues and her most extravagant purchase

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