In the last few years, I've been writing a column called "That's History" for the Toronto legal tabloid Law Times. Current columns are available on the Law Times website - see the link below.

Link to excerpted "That's History" articles here:

First women lawyers around the world
Eats Shoots and Lawyers
Summer Reading: The Heiress vs. The Establishment
What Are Lawyers Worth: The view from 1885
Who the hell is Anton Piller?
Remembering John Arnup, lawyer
A Dictionary of Canadian Lawyers
When the courts undermine the rule of law
How Eddie Goodman changed legal practice

Here are a few samples from a series I have been writing that I call "The Ontario Legal Alphabet"

The Ontario Legal Alphabet:

A is for Aylesworth D is for Davis J is for Jameson P is for Parsons V is for VanKoughnet Y is for Yip

Connect to:

Lawyers get involved in everything: land, business, politics, crime, families, power, passion. So this history of Ontario's lawyers is also a history of Ontario from an unusual and surprising angle. The book was originally commissioned by the Law Society to mark its two-hundredth anniversary. Ask your bookseller or contact University of Toronto Press directly.

The story of McCarthy Tétrault, Canada's leading law firm, is the story of the transformation of Canadian legal practice - and of the firm that led the way. Writing on a commission from the firm, Chris sets new standards in the writing of law firm history.
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