News from the home front

Aug. 4 was just an ordinary day of editing the stories for this issue of Canadian Lawyer when publisher Karen Lorimer and I were called into a meeting with our company president at which we were given the official news that our publications, Canadian Lawyer, InHouse, 4Students, and Law Times, had been sold to Carswell Thomson Reuters. We were part of a larger deal that will see Canada Law Book, a division of The Cartwright Group Ltd. owned by former judge Ian Cartwright, aligned with Carswell. Also part of the deal are CLB Media’s legal directories that include the Canadian Law List.

What it means? Well, we’ll have new owners and a lot more colleagues around the world working in the same company. We’ll no longer be a privately owned business and some of the legalese in our masthead changes to reflect the new ownership. And, probably a year down the road, our offices will be moving.

What won’t be changing is the award-winning editorial team that will continue to bring our readers informative, insightful, and sometimes controversial news, information, and opinion both in print and online. However, we are definitely looking forward to the many new opportunities available to us through this acquisition to improve and expand our offerings of the well-respected and comprehensive all-Canadian legal news coverage that we have become known for.

The future is bright.