In early April, a few law firms in Toronto had their systems compromised by an overseas hacker. Networks were left open and data was either replaced, modified or, worst of all, stolen.

The Canadian accounting landscape changed dramatically on Jan. 1.

In a surprise move, Prime Minister Stephen Harper established a new employment insurance scheme in Canada last week.

What does it cost to plead guilty to a drinking and driving offence? It’s going to be easily $20,000 or more if your client wants to be back on the road as soon as possible.

Once again, we can thank Ontario Court of Appeal Justice David Watt for his powerful writing in a recent judgment ordering a new trial for a man who pleaded not guilty but ended up with an immediate conviction anyway after the Crown read out the allegations against him.

The scene is the bandshell at Simcoe Park in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont., in June 1997. On this sunny afternoon, the benchers, senior staff, and members of the bar were present to celebrate the bicentennial of the Law Society of Upper Canada.

The province hoodwinked us into believing it had restrained public workers’ salaries, a recent Ontario Labour Relations Board ruling reveals.

In September, the federal prison ombudsman wrote that Corrections Canada was warehousing people with mental-health disabilities and that “Canadian penitentiaries are becoming the largest psychiatric facilities in the country.”

Osler Hoskin & Harcourt LLP unexpectedly landed itself in the news recently after it posted a note on its web site saying hospitals will want to cleanse their files in advance of new freedom-of-information rules.

Two things crossed my screen recently, and although they might seem unrelated at first glance, in reality they’re two sides of the same coin.

The Supreme Court of Canada decision in Evans v. Teamsters Local Union No. 31 has been widely regarded as confirming the employee’s duty to mitigate damages by continuing in employment if requested by the employer.

Last week, Law Times’ report on the top-earning public-sector lawyers showed evidence of both attempts at and an absence of restraint.