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Victoria Day Holiday
May 21st, 2012

It's May 2-4, even though it's only May 21, a holiday in Canada. So things will be pretty quiet here on Slaw today. Friends to the south or overseas, talk among yourselves. We'll be back bright and early tomorrow. Where I am — Toronto — the holiday is generally known as Ma... Read more »

Penguin's Freeze for Small Businesses and Firms
May 20th, 2012

Google makes up to 500 changes a year to its algorithm. The newest Google Algorithm change was released on April 24, 2012 and was dubbed Penguin. This update focuses on webspam and eliminating black hat SEO tricks, but it's likely that other changes to the previous Panda algorithm this year wi... Read more »

Ontario Bill to Amend the Electronic Commerce Act
May 20th, 2012

A private member’s bill, Bill 96, the Electronic Commerce Amendment Act, 2012, was introduced on May 17, 2012, to amend Ontario’s Electronic Commerce Act. The bill does three things: i) It repeals the exclusion of land transfers from the E-Commerce Act (paragraph 31(1)(d) of the Act, s. 2 of t... Read more »

Interesting Stats and Info in Altman Weil 2012 Law Firms in Transition Survey
May 18th, 2012

Altman Weil just released its Altman Weil 2012 Law Firms in Transition Survey. This is the fourth time they have released this survey. While a tad big US law focused, it does clearly show that the bigger firms are waking up to and addressing the profound changes and challenges that are occurring in... Read more »

Shoes and Dominoes
May 18th, 2012

They are, respectively, dropping and falling, these metaphors being used to describe the AUCC/ Access Copyright (AC) deal struck in in mid April. It being a month since that model deal was announced, it seems that mid May was given as a deadline for the schools that previously opted out to express t... Read more »

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