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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"

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BOOKS
The Law Society of Upper Canada
The Law Society of Upper Canada:
A History 1797-1997

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 History of McCarthy Tétrault  
McCarthy Tétrault: Building Canada's Premier Law Firm 1855-2005

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.
READ AN EXCERPT HERE

 
LEGAL MEMBERSHIPS
The Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History

If you take an interest in legal history, you ought to be a member of the Osgoode Society, Canada's premier legal history society. In twenty years the Osgoode society has sponsored historical research, undertaken hundreds of oral history interviews, and published dozens of groundbreaking books. They throw a pretty good launch party each year too.
The Osggod Society The Osgoode Society
for Canadian Legal History

 
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