Canadian law firm McCarthy Tétrault LLP donated $150,000 to help create a new hands-on business law internship program for 91ÑÇɫ’s Osgoode Hall Law School students, reported the 91ÑÇÉ« Guardian Jan. 24. .
Alan Middleton, executive director of the Schulich Executive Education Centre at 91ÑÇÉ«, explained to Investment Executive Jan. 24 how the best new devices can help advisors maximize their time and communicate with their clients. .
Mayor Rob Ford’s future is in the hands of three judges who are praised effusively by lawyers who have appeared before them. The judges on the Divisional Court panel are Regional Senior Justice Edward Then, Justice Lynne Leitch and Justice Katherine Swinton, a former Osgoode Hall Law School professor, reported the Toronto Star Jan. 25. .
91ÑÇÉ« had options when it realized there was concern about an executive’s possible impropriety, and most of those choices would have involved paying him nothing, rather than almost $700,000 in a severance deal, a judge says in the Toronto Star Jan. 24. .
The Ontario government announced Thursday it is raising the age of financial and emotional support for former Crown wards to age 25 from 21, reported the Waterloo Region Record and others Jan. 24….91ÑÇÉ« is one of the 11 academic institutions that will fund tuition for current and former Crown wards. .
We asked several prominent Canadians from the worlds of business, finance and academia – including Dezso Horvath, dean of 91ÑÇÉ«'s Schulich School of Business, and Moshe Milevsky, professor of finance at Schulich – to recommend a book or website that made an impact on them in 2012 and might provide useful insight to the rest of us. Their answers were as varied as the ups and downs of the economy itself, ranging in subject from cautionary tales about the 2008 financial crisis to practical strategies for saving and investing, reported CBC News Jan. 4. .