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Budget 2026 to fund court-ruling translations, victims’ services, and reform taxes affecting lawyers

The budget is the second released by Prime Minister Mark Carney

Dentons’ new global practice heads include four across Toronto, Vancouver

Appointed leaders in Canada are Kimberly Burns, Esme Cragg, Kenneth Kraft, Larry Nevsky

Saskatchewan Legal Profession Amendment Act to boost agent regulation

The new bill boosts the provincial legal regulator’s oversight of the profession

Quebec foster family group challenges unequal support for children under youth protection

They seek constitutional review of provisions affecting children placed with relatives

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Fortune favours the bold

Fortune favours the bold

DLA Piper’s Canada CEO on bold advice, global reach, and what it really means to win

Features
40 years & 10,000 families: giving back in appreciation

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40 years & 10,000 families: giving back in appreciation

Share Lawyers seeks charity nominations for its nationwide 40 Days of Giving campaign

Focus on e-discovery

Focus on e-discovery

Canadian Lawyer, Law Tims and Lexpert recently published a series of articles on e-discovery. All recent coverage can be found here

Opinion

The mentorship questions law students should ask during recruitment

By Peter Saad
Peter Saad

E-discovery is changing what lawyers ask and when they ask it 

By Tim Wilbur
Tim Wilbur

I thought AI would take my legal job. Instead, it gave me a better one

By Emily Feng
Emily Feng

What judges are really looking for in legal award submissions 

By Tim Wilbur
Tim Wilbur
Rankings

Top Legal Tech, Service Providers, and Products in Canada | Readers’ Choice

Canadian Lawyer’s Readers’ Choice Awards 2026 present 117 reader-voted awards to legal technology providers as AI raises the bar on verification

Top Legal Tech, Service Providers, and Products in Canada | Readers’ Choice

The Top Litigation Law Firms in Canada, Boutique

Canada's top litigation law firms exemplify standards of excellence

The Top Litigation Law Firms in Canada, Boutique

Top 25 Most Influential Lawyers in Canada

From constitutional rulings to firm-wide AI rollouts, these influential lawyers are taking Canada’s legal system forward

Top 25 Most Influential Lawyers in Canada
Resources

Dentons’ new global practice heads include four across Toronto, Vancouver

Appointed leaders in Canada are Kimberly Burns, Esme Cragg, Kenneth Kraft, Larry Nevsky

Canadian Lawyer unveils 2026 Readers’ Choice Award winners

LSA bencher candidates divided on whether regulator should push back against Alberta’s ‘Peterson law’

BC Conservatives’ promise to repeal Legal Professions Act may render litigation with LSBC moot

Data, Volume, and Defensibility: How Canadian Litigation Teams are Managing the Complexity Crunch

International

International Court of Justice adds first UK judge in nearly a decade

By Bernise Carolino

Dapo Akande, public international law professor at Oxford, first qualified as a lawyer in Nigeria

International Court of Justice adds first UK judge in nearly a decade

Hogan Lovells Cadwalader says it’s first global firm to put pro bono in constitution

By Bernise Carolino

Partnership of combined firm formally commits to support for communities it serves

Hogan Lovells Cadwalader says it’s first global firm to put pro bono in constitution

UK Law Commission to study offences against dead bodies, human remains

By Bernise Carolino

Review may cover dismemberment, situation where killer withholds location of victim’s body

UK Law Commission to study offences against dead bodies, human remains

Report addresses AI use to prepare documents in UK civil proceedings

By Bernise Carolino

Recommendations touched on litigants-in-person, witness statements, expert evidence

Report addresses AI use to prepare documents in UK civil proceedings

Weil, Gotshal & Manges to wind down after unsuccessful merger talks

By Bernise Carolino

New York-headquartered firm, founded in 1931, planned to join forces with Willkie Farr & Gallagher

Weil, Gotshal & Manges to wind down after unsuccessful merger talks