BUSINESS
CAREERS
Top 24
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Lawyers in private practice:
ledge managers to law society
personnel, underlining the wide
range of social media participation across the country.
n;All these influencers operate a
popular blog or a widely read
Twitter stream, or both. Although
there are many social media
vehicles available to lawyers
(including standbys like Facebook and LinkedIn and newer
entries like Quora and Google+),
at this point it’s very difficult to
earn the title of influencer
without a publishing engine (a
blog) and a circulation system (a
Twitter feed).
n Three people in particular
stood out in our survey and
deserve special mention:
1. Rob Hyndman of Hyndman
Law in Toronto is the undisputed
king of Twitter among Canadian
lawyers: at time of writing he
had issued 35,065 tweets; the
next closest total was Barry
Sookman of McCarthy Tétrault,
with nearly 13,000.
2.Michael Geist’s influence
spreads far beyond the Canadian legal community: more
than 16,000 people follow his
Twitter stream of news and
links to copyright law reform
worldwide. Next closest is
KPMG’s Dominic Jaar, with
almost 5,000.
3. Arguably, no one has had a
greater impact on the development of a Canadian online legal
world than Simon Fodden,
founder of slaw.ca. To put it in
perspective: since its debut in
2005, Slaw has featured more
than 7,500 posts, from dozens
of columnists and contributors
from Canada and around the
world, and has received more
than 10,000 comments.
What can we learn from all
this? That anyone with a mes-
Influencer
John Boscariol
David Canton
Caroline Clapham
Michael Fitzgibbon
David Fraser
Nicole Garton-Jones
Omar Ha-Redeye
Rob Hyndman
Erik Magraken
Stuart Rudner
Barry Sookman
Garry Wise
Employer
McCarthy Tétrault LLP
Harrison Pensa LLP
Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP
Watershed LLP
McInnes Cooper
Heritage Law Group
Barrister & Solicitor
Hyndman Law
MacIssac & Co.
Miller Thomson
McCarthy Tétrault
Wise Law Group
City
Toronto
London, Ont.
Vancouver
Oakville, Ont.
Halifax
Vancouver
Toronto
Toronto
Victoria
Toronto
Toronto
Toronto
Twitter
@tradelawyer
@davidcanton
@carolineclapham
@managementlaw
@privacylawyer
@ngartonjones
@omarharedeye
@rhh
@erikmagraken
@CanadianHRLaw
@bsookman
@wiselaw
Lawyers not in private practice:
Influencer
David Bilinksy
Colin Cameron
Samantha Collier
Connie Crosby
David Eby
Simon Fodden
Michael Geist
Dominic Jaar
Steve Matthews
Shaunna Mireau
Dan Pinnington
David Whelan
Employer
Law Society of B.C.
Profits for Partners Management Consulting
MBM Intellectual Property Law
Crosby Group Consulting
B.C. Civil Liberties Association
Slaw.ca
University of Ottawa Faculty of Law
KPMG
Stem Legal Web Enterprises
Field LLP
LawPRO
Law Society of Upper Canada
City
Vancouver
Vancouver
Vancouver
Oakville, Ont.
Vancouver
Toronto
Ottawa
Montreal
Vancouver
Edmonton
Toronto
Toronto
Twitter
@David_Bilinsky
@colincameron
@samtaracollier
@crosbygroup
@Dave_Eby
@fodden
@mgeist
@dominicjaar
@stevematthews
@smireau
@danpinnington
@davidpwhelan
sage to send and the willingness
to engage with a readership can
take advantage of the self-pub-
lishing opportunities presented
by social media and become an
opinion leader within the pro-
fession. Visit the blogs and read
the Twitter streams of these 24
influencers today and let them
open you up to a vast library of
knowledge, perspectives and
connections — and think about
what you’d need to do to join
their ranks. n
Warren Smith is a managing
director of lawyer recruitment
and career consulting firm, The
Counsel Network. You can follow
him on Twitter @lawheadhunter.
Jordan Furlong is a senior con-
sultant with Stem Legal, where he
advises lawyers and law firms on
social media and communica-
tions strategy. You can follow him
on Twitter @jordan_law21.
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Joe Groia incivility case causes debate
Has ‘civility movement’
gone too far this time?
THOMAS CLARIDGE
In an ideal world, all litigators
would be civil, addressing one
another as “my honourable
friend” or at least as “my worthy
adversary.” But is civility sufficiently important to trump all
other considerations?
Opinions clearly differ, and
some critics of what they term
the “civility movement” suggest
Canadian law societies are some-
times going overboard in con-
cluding that forceful, intemper-
ate language has no place in a
courtroom and should lead to at
least a reprimand and maybe
even disbarment.
