In Search of the Ethical Lawyer

Adam Dodek is associate professor in the Common Law Section at the University of Ottawa. He is the author of Solicitor-Client Privilege and The Canadian Constitution, as well as the co-editor of five other books. He is a member of the Chief Justice of Ontario’s Advisory Committee on Professionalism and is a former Governor of the Law Commission of Ontario. He is also a founding member of the Canadian Association for Legal Ethics and a member of the Advisory Board for the journal Legal Ethics. In 2014, he was named by Canadian Lawyer magazine as one of the twenty-five most influential figures in the Canadian legal profession. Alice Woolley is a professor and associate dean academic in the Faculty of Law at the University of Calgary. She is the author of Understanding Lawyers’ Ethics in Canada and co-editor of Lawyers’ Ethics and Professional Regulation (2nd Edition). She is a founding member of the Canadian Association for Legal Ethics, a member of the Canadian Bar Association’s Ethics and Professional Responsibility Committee, and a member of the Board of the International Association of Legal Ethics. In 2015, she was named by Canadian Lawyer magazine as one of the twenty-five most influential figures in the Canadian legal profession. Contributors: David Asper, Constance Backhouse, Janine Benedet, Brent Cotter, Richard Devlin, Trevor Farrow, Allan Hutchinson, Micah Rankin, and Lorne Sossin

Foreword / Paul Wells

Introduction / Adam Dodek and Alice Woolley

1 Keeping Secrets or Saving Lives: What Is a Lawyer to Do? / Adam Dodek

2 Putting Up a Defence: Sex, Murder, and Videotapes / Allan C. Hutchinson

3 “No One’s Interested in Something You Didn’t Do”: Freeing David Milgaard the Ugly Way / David Asper

4 “Begun in Faith, Continued in Determination”: Burnley Allan (Rocky) Jones and the Egalitarian Practice of Law / Richard F. Devlin

5 Feminist Lawyering: Insiders and Outsiders / Janine Benedet

6 Gender and Race in the Construction of “Legal Professionalism”: Historical Perspectives / Constance Backhouse

7 The Helping Profession: Can Pro Bono Lawyers Make Sick Children Well? / Lorne Sossin

8 A New Wave of Access to Justice Reform in Canada / Trevor C.W. Farrow

9 Michelle’s Story: Creativity and Meaning in Legal Practice / Alice Woolley

10 Ian Scott: Renaissance Man, Consummate Advocate, Attorney General Extraordinaire / W. Brent Cotter

11 Gerry Laarakker: From Rustic Rambo to Rebel with a Cause / Micah Rankin

Index