I started my career with the Law Society of Saskatchewan as Complaints Counsel almost 15 years ago. It was a role I only held for a couple of years, but the experience stuck with me. It was difficult for me to recommend disciplinary action against a lawyer who was clearly struggling with a mental health…

Resilience is a hot wellness topic for the profession. I’ve noted and attended several Continuing Professional Development sessions over the last few years – particularly since COVID. I’ve learned to be a tennis ball rather than an egg. I now better bounce off the walls of adversity and have found the training invaluable in both…

Disco is my first true love. I constantly feel its pulsing beat invading my thoughts and seemingly perforating all aspects of my everyday life. Growing up in isolated Northern B.C., it provided a glimpse into a bright, splashy world so far removed from my small logging town. And nothing better encapsulated this world than the…

In my first post I teased (threatened?) that I would write a comparison of tradition in the legal profession to the great film, Fiddler on the Roof. Instead, this go around I’m focusing on a movie from almost the same time period, The Poseidon Adventure. This disaster movie gem was released just over 50 years…