Articling, Harassment and Discrimination - 2024 Did you see the E-bulletin from the Law Society of Alberta last Friday (September 27th) informing the legal community about the results of the 2024 Articling Student...
Truth and Reconciliation and A Glimpse into the Future Monday, September 30th is Truth and Reconciliation Day.
Addiction in the Legal Profession and Send a Student or Junior to Assist's Hand to Hand Event! At the Assist office, we are getting very excited about our Hand to Hand...
The Power of the Pivot Many years ago, when I was about fifteen years at the bar and working for a large company as Senior Corporate Counsel with about eight years...
Happy Welcome to Law School, or Back to Law School, or Back to Work September, and the living is easy…. Wait—that was summer, when the living is easy.
Labour Day and Lawyering Today’s blog is short because I hope that most recipients will be winding down towards their long weekend by the time that our newsletter arrives on their...
Confidential but Collaborative One of the most important messages Assist delivers to the Alberta legal community is that we are independent from other organizations, in particular, the Law Society of Alberta....
Public Service Announcement: Grief and Legacy Contacts Today’s blog is more of a public service announcement than a conventional piece about well-being issues in the legal profession.
Overachievers Anonymous Many of us play Wordle, a word game published by the New York times each day.
Even Lawyers Get the Twisties Is anyone else enjoying the Olympics, ideally watching from an air-conditioned or well-ventilated location? I don’t watch sports very much, but I am an Olympics fanatic....