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Reconciliation, Republican Style

Posted on February 27, 2010
It's all good - but only when they use it. "If you've got 51 votes for your position, you win:"Senator Judd Gregg , in a 2005 defense of the Republicans? use of the budget reconciliation process - via Ezra Klein- Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Firm website: www...

Batman Beats Superman

Posted on February 26, 2010
Pristine copies of two comic books that featured the debuts of Batman and Superman were sold this week for seven-figure sums at separate, record-breaking auctions.On Monday, Superman had his brief moment of record-setting glory: A rare copy of the first comic book featuring Superman sold Monday for $1 million, smashing the previous record price for a comic book...

Ontario Human Rights Tribunal Orders Money Mart to Pay $30,000 for Failure to Investigate Harassment

Posted on February 25, 2010
The Ontario Human Rights Tribunal has increasingly become the judicial body to watch for developments in Ontario's employment law. Most recently, in a decision released February 17, 2010, the Tribunal ordered National Money Mart Company to pay $30,000 in compensation to a former, one-year employee of the company who had been subjected to ongoing, serious sexual harassment by her workplace supervisor...

That "Hopey Changey" Thing

Posted on February 23, 2010
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A Note About Resumes

Posted on February 23, 2010
Some human resources professionals apparently prefer to hire only dull people who can spell.(Pig wrestlers need not apply).- Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Firm website: www.wiselaw.net EMPLOYMENT LAW ? CIVIL LITIGATION ? WILLS AND ESTATES ? FAMILY LAW & DIVORCEORIGINALLY POSTED AT WISE LAW BLOG ? SUBSCRIBE TO WISE LAW BLOG

Live Long and Prosper

Posted on February 23, 2010
In Canada, that is:Newborn Canadians may live to celebrate nearly 81 birthdays on average, a Statistics Canada report on life expectancy suggests.Tuesday's report on births and deaths showed life expectancy at birth reached 80.7 years for the three-year-period between 2005 and 2007, up 0...

FBI Issues Alert On Email Scam Targeting Lawyers

Posted on February 23, 2010
Law.com reports on the latest variation on an all-too-familiar scam:Two law firms in Honolulu were scammed out of $500,000 in an e-mail scheme that's apparently targeting the legal community.During the past six weeks, six different law firms have been targeted, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which issued a warning today (PDF)...

Good Shoes Required

Posted on February 23, 2010
Lisa Hutch provides a tutorial on finding a footing in your articling year.- Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Firm website: www.wiselaw.net EMPLOYMENT LAW ? CIVIL LITIGATION ? WILLS AND ESTATES ? FAMILY LAW & DIVORCEORIGINALLY POSTED AT WISE LAW BLOG ? SUBSCRIBE TO WISE LAW BLOG

Social Media and the Flu

Posted on February 19, 2010
Best lament of the day (from one of our assistants who's been down with a nasty flu):I was too sick to tweet.- Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Firm website: www.wiselaw.net EMPLOYMENT LAW ? CIVIL LITIGATION ? WILLS AND ESTATES ? FAMILY LAW & DIVORCEORIGINALLY POSTED AT WISE LAW BLOG ? SUBSCRIBE TO WISE LAW BLOG

Lawsuit: Pennsylvania School's Laptops Used to Spy on Students

Posted on February 19, 2010
A federal lawsuit alleges that a Pennsylvania school used laptop video cameras to spy on its students at their homes: A suburban school district used webcams in school-issued laptops to spy on students at home, potentially catching them and their families in compromising situations, a family claims in a federal lawsuit...

On Social Media and the Erosion of Privacy

Posted on February 18, 2010
Newsweek's Daniel Lyons may have just hit the nail on the head:The real holy grail is your list of friends. With that information, marketers can start sending more targeted messages... The genius of Google, Facebook, and others is that they've created services that are so useful or entertaining that people will give up some privacy in order to use them...

Which Cell Phones Emit the Most Radiation?

Posted on February 18, 2010
Blackberry and other smartphone addicts might be interested in the graphic below, via Web Pro News, and a new report from the Environmental Working Group, Limit Your Exposure to Cell Phone Radiation:Analysis is here.- Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Firm website: www...

Beck: "He's a Bad Guy - Shoot Him in the Head!"

Posted on February 17, 2010
Glen Beck opines on the capture of Taliban leader, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar: - Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Firm website: www.wiselaw.net EMPLOYMENT LAW ? CIVIL LITIGATION ? WILLS AND ESTATES ? FAMILY LAW & DIVORCEORIGINALLY POSTED AT WISE LAW BLOG ? SUBSCRIBE TO WISE LAW BLOG

Not an Acceptable License Plate?

Posted on February 16, 2010
Apparently, I'M GAY does not cut it on Oklahoma's highways. Lawsuit follows:The Oklahoma Tax Commission, the organization that reviews and approves applications for personalized license plates in the Sooner State, has reportedly allowed the following to appear on the state?s plates: STR8FAN and STR8SXI...

Anyone Want To Buy a Recording Studio?

Posted on February 16, 2010
London's Abbey Road studios are for sale.- Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Firm website: www.wiselaw.net EMPLOYMENT LAW ? CIVIL LITIGATION ? WILLS AND ESTATES ? FAMILY LAW & DIVORCEORIGINALLY POSTED AT WISE LAW BLOG ? SUBSCRIBE TO WISE LAW BLOG

Is Social Media Killing Blogs?

Posted on February 16, 2010
Bottom line - it's faster and easier to tweet than to write.Via Chris Crumm at Web Pro News, does Facebook provide a solution?Is social media killing blogs? No, but it's hard to say that use of sites like Facebook and Twitter (and now Google Buzz) don't lend to less blog posts being created...

Clinton, Lewinsky and Ken Starr

Posted on February 16, 2010
The former special prosecutor tells George Stephanopolous he's sorry it all happened, and accepts "thoughtful criticisms" of his tactical judgments in the Clinton investigation. Nonetheless, he asserts "the matter had to be investigated because in our country, nobody is above the law...

Cheney

Posted on February 16, 2010
Scott Horton of Harpers on the former Vice President:?I was a big supporter of waterboarding,? Cheney said in an appearance on ABC?s This Week on Sunday. He went on to explain that Justice Department lawyers had been instructed to write legal opinions to cover the use of this and other torture techniques after the White House had settled on them...

Priorities

Posted on February 16, 2010
From artist Jake Lewis,via Andrew Sullivan: - Garry J. Wise, TorontoVisit our Toronto Law Firm website: www.wiselaw.net EMPLOYMENT LAW ? CIVIL LITIGATION ? WILLS AND ESTATES ? FAMILY LAW & DIVORCEORIGINALLY POSTED AT WISE LAW BLOG ? SUBSCRIBE TO WISE LAW BLOG

Law Blog Round-Up

Posted on February 16, 2010
The Cottage as Matrimonial HomeA recent blog by Andrew Feldstein discusses the Ontario family law decision in MacFarland v. MacFarland, where a family cottage was held to be a matrimonial home, notwithstanding that it was in the husband?s name, was an inheritance from his mother, and for the last years of the marriage the husband spent more time at the cottage than at home, while the wife hardly went there...

Data, Data, Data...

Posted on February 14, 2010
Our friend, Colm Brannigan, passed the link to this video along. Bottom line - the world's existing data continues to grow exponentially. California mediator Victoria Pynchon argues that the net result of this ever-increasing document pile is an "impossibility of fully compliant document production:" - Garry J...

We Are the World 2010

Posted on February 13, 2010
The newly released 2010 version is here.- Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Firm website: www.wiselaw.net EMPLOYMENT LAW ? CIVIL LITIGATION ? WILLS AND ESTATES ? FAMILY LAW & DIVORCEORIGINALLY POSTED AT WISE LAW BLOG ? SUBSCRIBE TO WISE LAW BLOG

The Facebook $3.99 Hoax

Posted on February 13, 2010
Don't believe everything you read on Facebook....I'm Quitting Facebook Once We have to Pay $3.99/month on July 9, 2010!It's not even a rumour. Just a silly hoax group (with half a million group members - and counting).Some reports, by the way, link these "protest" groups to malware - be careful...

The Newest Leaf

Posted on February 06, 2010
As our regular readers will know, here at Wise Law Blog, we'll occasionally segue from our usual law talk with a post on one of our other two major concerns, the Toronto Maple Leafs and music. I'm not sure this video of the newest Leaf, Dion Phaneuf, will be the ultimate marriage of those two satellite interests, but it scores high for oddity value, if nothing else...

Quoteworthy

Posted on January 30, 2010
New York Times' Linda Greenhouse, commenting on the U.S. Supreme Court's "exaltation of corporate speech" in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission:...the Roberts court has lost its virginity.- Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Firm website: www...

Learning the "Power of the Internet" (the Hard Way III)

Posted on January 18, 2010
Another hapless Tweetor learns an important life lesson:Some things, you just don't say online:When heavy snowfall threatened to scupper Paul Chambers's travel plans, he decided to vent his frustrations on Twitter by tapping out a comment to amuse his friends...

Karlheinz Schreiber Trial Begins

Posted on January 18, 2010
CBC reports that the trial of former Brian Mulroney associate, Karlheinz Schreiber, has commenced in Germany.The trial has begun in Germany for Karlheinz Schreiber, a German-Canadian businessman accused of tax evasion for his role in a 1990s political financing scandal...

Harper's Judicial Tides

Posted on January 18, 2010
Lawyers Weekly makes an interesting observation - One third of federal judges now appointed by Harper government:The Conservatives will have appointed one-third of the country?s federal judges by the time they celebrate their fourth anniversary in office this month...

Law Firm E-Security Concerns To Heat Up After Trojan Email Attack?

Posted on January 15, 2010
Legal professionals who utilize Web 2.0 and the Cloud have long been wary of the general perils of inadequate online security.This Law.com report of a targeted trojan email attack on a Los Angeles law firm, however, obviously ups the ante and raises genuine concern about the safety of confidential client date housed by law firms in the face of sophisticated attempts to breach security walls:A Los Angeles law firm that recently filed a $2...

Best Law Firm TV Ad Ever

Posted on January 15, 2010
Via Overlawyered- Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Firm website: www.wiselaw.net EMPLOYMENT LAW ? CIVIL LITIGATION ? WILLS AND ESTATES ? FAMILY LAW & DIVORCEORIGINALLY POSTED AT WISE LAW BLOG ? SUBSCRIBE TO WISE LAW BLOG

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