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
The Persons Case
The Poet Lawyers
Blackstone, the man behind the tome

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

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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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Chris wrote this history on a commission to mark the 2010 centenary of the court. This authoritative history, published by UBC Press, explores how British Columbia’s highest court makes law and how a court can reflects the economy and society of the province. Chris also features one notable case per decade from the court’s files, from the Komagata Maru case to the same-sex marriage debate.