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Weird and Wacky Wednesdays: Volume 386

This week on Weird and Wacky Wednesdays: Lawyer criminals rather than criminal lawyers

Recently for Weird and Wacky Wednesdays, I covered some legal stories where police officers did some horrible things. Of course just because you’re a police officer, that does not make you moral, honest or ethical or not a criminal. Same goes for lawyers. Both lawyers and police officers have higher ethical standards to maintain. Some lawyers and some police officers fall far below those standards and go further, committing crimes. This week on Weird and Wacky Wednesdays, we are going to look at some fairly notorious cases where the lawyers were not just unethical but criminal. 

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Weird and Wacky Wednesdays: Volume 358

This week on Weird and Wacky Wednesdays: Special lawyers Edition

This week on Weird and Wacky Wednesdays, we look at lawyers doing things that are just plain stupid—and none of it is connected to their actual lawyering. These aren’t courtroom blunders or legal missteps, but moments of astonishingly bad judgment in everyday life. From bizarre behaviour at work events to outrageous public outbursts and outright fraud, these stories remind us that holding a law degree doesn’t guarantee common sense.

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Enough is Enough: Stop Humiliating and Start Working

If you have paid any attention to the legal issues surrounding the use of artificial intelligence in courtrooms, you probably heard about the first case involving hallucinated legal precedence that occurred in British Columbia. You probably heard about it because you read a story in the news, saw it on your television during the 6:00 PM broadcast or you read a post on LinkedIn or some other social media.

What you don’t hear in those news stories, television broadcasts, and social media posts is the underlying circumstances that occurred in this case.

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Lawyer’s Charter Rights: Cases That Should Have Gone to the Supreme Court of Canada, But Didn’t!

Acumen Law Corporation lawyer Kyla Lee gives her take on a made-in-Canada court case each week and discusses why these cases should have been heard by Canada’s highest court: the Supreme Court of Canada.

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