Law society

And the provincial government has passed the same thing with an S on the end, the Legal Professions with an S on the End Act, as otherwise referred to as Bill 21.

And it makes a bunch of changes to the regulatory scheme, including things like changing what the object of the law society is.

It currently includes things like upholding and protecting the legal rights and freedoms of all people in British Columbia.

And they've replaced it with things like implementing drip-up.

And the other changes involve the government trying to have more control over who operates the law society and makes rules for them.

Lawyers are currently a self-governing profession independent of the government, which is an important principle because often the government is on the other side of litigation.

The challenge involves whether that concept, the independence of the legal profession, is a constitutional requirement, and if so, does these changes breach that? That's the legal issue.

I found that really interesting.

The firm spent 30 years building a reputation that lives in the names of the principals and then it publishes its actual expertise anonymously.

There's a practical dimension to that because attribution is a strong signal to anything assessing whether a source knows its subject and a named solicitor with a profile page and a Law Society registration is a person who can be verified.

The human dimension is the one that's probably the most important, the one I care about the most.

The reason someone chooses your firm over another one is almost never the content of the advice, because at a certain level of competence, the advice is more or less the same.

Uh, but, uh, certainly when s- you know, people are appointed to oversee that from the provincial government, uh, that creates headlines and that creates questions.

Uh, you also have, uh, the disputes that he ran into with the Law Society-

Mm-hmm

... over how, uh, certain things were dealt with with wills over t- his time before he was mayor as well-

yeah, it's hard when you go through like the big milestones.

So like when I qualified as a solicitor and was doing my Law Society graduation, I wanted him there.

Like I want him to see this.

If I go on to have kids, if I get married, that sort of stuff.