Special Reports and Guides

Table of Contents : Chapter 1: Terms of reference, committee process and structure of report; Chapter 2: Executive summary; Chapter 3: General information about law libraries; Chapter 4: Libraries - common issues & industry trends; Chapter 5: Historical development of county law libraries; Chapter 6: The current operation of county law libraries (non-financial); Chapter 7: A library "system"; Chapter 8: Current financial operation of the county libraries; Chapter 9: The role of technology in law libraries; Chapter 10: A period of transition in technology for the legal profession and for law libraries; Chapter 11: Costs of closing libraries; Chapter 12: Possible delivery models for county law libraries; Chapter 13: Issues in financing the county libraries; Chapter 14: Summary; Chapter 15: Further reports; Appendices.

Second report of the Working Group on Long-Term Delivery of County and District Library Services.

Third report of the Working Group on Long-Term Delivery of County and District Library Services - Administrative Working Group.

Contents : Introduction; Challenges women face in advancing in law firms; Strategies to begin the process of change; Strategies to help women advance to partnership; Career planning; Mentors and sponsors; Coaching; Building a sustainable practice; Outside resources; Conclusion; Appendices.

Contents : Introduction; Message from the Treasurer; Payment for lawyers; Criminal law priorities and tariffs; Family law priorities and tariffs; Immigration / refugee priorities and tariffs; and, Civil litigation priorities and tariffs.

The report includes interviews with a cross-section of the legal profession about the relationship between their faith/spiritual belief(s) and practices, the rule of law and legal practice. The following individuals were interviewed: Kiran Kaur Bhinder (Sikh), Judith Holzman (Jewish), Douglas Elliott (Christian), Vinay Jain (Jain), John Borrows (Aboriginal), Amina Sherazee (Muslim), Anita Balakrishna (Hindu), and Eric Nguyen (Buddhist).

Table of Contents : List of tables; List of figures; List of abbreviations; Section 1. Introduction; Section 2. Characteristics of the sample; Section 3. Characteristics of current position; Section 4. The private practice of law; Section 5. Workplace issues; Section 6. Analysis of comments offered by participants; Section 7. Conclusions; Appendix A: Covering letters to questionnaire; Appendix B: Questionnaire.

Table of Contents: 1. Overview; 2. Learning for lawyers; 3. Putting learning into practice; 4. Resources; 5. For further reading; 6. Acknowledgment & thanks - Miigwetch.

Table of Contents : I. History of the Law Society; II. Legislative history; III. Roles, powers and structure of the Law Society of Upper Canada; IV. Entry into the profession of law; V. Ethics and discipline and civil liability; VI. Practice of the profession and relationship to the regulatory structure; VII. County and District Law Associations; VIII. The Canadian Bar Association; IX. Subsidized services; X. Paraprofessionals; Footnotes.

Contents : Introduction; Value of leadership by and for women; Challenges for women in leadership; Strategies for women's leadership success.

Contents : Executive summary; Why are civil legal needs important to all Ontarians?; What low and middle-income Ontarians told us about their civil legal needs; Finding legal services and legal information; A path for the future: addressing people's unmet civil legal needs; Appendix A. The Ontario Civil Legal Needs Project process; Appendix B. Organizational profiles.