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Amidst all of these structural changes in the market, only three of the Seven Sisters underwent mergers — the aforementioned McCarthy in 1989–90, [40] Toronto's Davies Ward & Beck with Montreal's Phillips & Vineberg in 2000 [41] and Toronto's Tory & Tory with New York's Haythe & Curley in 2000 [42] [43] [44] — whilst the remainder decided to grow organically.
McCarthy, Osler, Hoskin and Creelman became a leading law firm in Toronto. [ citation needed ] In 1968, Osler became the first large corporate law firm in Canada to admit a woman as a partner, Bertha Wilson , who went on to become the first female justice appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada .
It was founded in 1979 by a group of prominent South African lawyers, including Arthur Chaskalson, Felicia Kentridge, and Geoff Budlender, under the guidance of American civil rights lawyers Jack Greenberg and Michael Meltsner, then Director-Counsel and former First Assistant Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund respectively.
He first had to resign his post as Dean of Osgoode Hall Law School, the seat of the Law Society of Upper Canada, rejecting the Law Society's apprenticeship model of legal education in favour of the University of Toronto's vision of a full-time legal education, hinging on the professional bachelor of laws degree and embedded within a university.
The Legal Profession in Upper Canada in Its Early Periods. Toronto: Law Society of Upper Canada. ISBN 978-0-665-77544-4. OCLC 1129351627. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain. Romney, Paul (1995). "Upper Canada (Ontario): The Administration of Justice, 1784–1850". Manitoba Law Journal. 23: 183– 213.
The Regional Municipality of Durham (/ ˈ d ʊər ə m /), informally referred to as Durham Region, is a regional municipality in Southern Ontario, Canada.Located east of Toronto and the Regional Municipality of York, it forms the east end of the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) and is part of the Golden Horseshoe region.
In Canada, the rules of civil procedure are administered separately by each jurisdiction, both federal and provincial. Nine provinces and three territories in Canada are common law jurisdictions. One province, Quebec, is governed by civil law. [1] In all provinces and territories, there is an inferior and superior court. [1]