Closing Banquet – Join Us!
Tickets are still available for the NE2007 Closing Banquet on Oct. 20 at the Marriott Hotel. You’ll dance the night away with great music, interactive performers, innovative entertainment, giveaways, a buffet dinner and lots of fun.
Even if you can’t make the conference you can still attend the banquet. Check the main website for registration information.
October 4, 2007
TALL Tower Tours – Thursday, October 18
Like poking around other peoples’ libraries? Looking for some new ideas?
Toronto’s law libraries are mainly concentrated in the downtown core, but the libraries themselves vary in content and design. Join a tour of some of Toronto’s unique law libraries. Sign up sheets will be located at the Conference Information Desk. The tours will take you to two libraries and bring you back in time to join a Dutch Treat Dinner on Thursday evening. If you would like more information, please email Mary Saulig, msaulig@goodmans.ca .
Tour 1
Law Society of Upper Canada Great Library
Housed in a historic 1846 building, the combination of present-day resources and architectural splendor gives the Great Library its unique charm.
Ogilvy Renault
Come and see the library where form and function meet innovative office design.
Tour 2
Blaney McMurtry LLP
The Moveable Feast – come see how we get 2000 linear feet of shelving into approximately 600 square feet of space!!!! Hint, its not magic.
McMillan Binch Mendelsohn LLP
Located on the 44th floor of one of Toronto’s most architecturally beautiful office spaces, McMillan Binch Mendelsohn’s library features floor-to-ceiling windows and easily one of the most stunning views in Toronto’s legal community.
October 4, 2007
Dutch Treat Dinners @ NE2007, Thursday October 18th
Don’t know where to eat dinner Thursday night? Don’t know who to go with? No problem – just sign up for a dutch treat dinner. Toronto has a variety of restaurants that offer prix fixe (set price) options on their menus, so there is bound to be one which suits your taste, and your pocketbook. Choose a restaurant from the list, and sign up by either posting your name on the wiki page Dutch Treat Dinners or e-mailing your choice to Mary Saulig at msaulig@goodmans.ca
Further details will be available at the Information desk at the Conference.
**All prices exclude beverages and taxes
309 Dhaba Indian Excellence (Indian)
309 King St. W.
416-740-6622
$34/40/50
http://www.dhaba.ca/home.php
Bangkok Garden Restaurant (Thai)
18 Elm St.
416-977-6748
$30/35/45/50/55
http://www.toronto.com/restaurants/listing/212841
Il Fornello Restaurant (Italian)
214 King St. W
416-977-2855
$25/35/45
http://www.ilfornello.com/
Jules Bistro Café (French)
147 Spadina Ave.
416-348-8886
$25
http://www.torontolife.com/guide/restaurants/french/jules/
La Bodega (French)
30 Baldwin St.
416-977-1287
$30
http://www.labodegarestaurant.com/about_place.php
La Maquette (French)
111 King St. E
416-366-8191
$32
http://www.lamaquette.com/home.php
La Palette (French)
256 Augusta Ave
416-929-4900
$25
http://www.torontolife.com/guide/restaurants/french/la-palette/
Midi Bistro (Bistro)
168 McCaul St.
416-977-2929
$32 ($22 for smaller portion sizes)
http://www.midibistro.com/
Are you getting hungry yet???
Cheers,
Connie
1 comment October 4, 2007
Coming Soon: Survey for Delegates!
Today I drafted a survey for all delegates to help us plan out rooms and seating for the various concurrent sessions during the conference. The other planners are going to work through it to ensure it makes sense, and then I hope to send that out mid-week. Keep your eyes peeled!
If I can co-ordinate it, Canadian delegates should also be receiving your confirmation receipts with it. U.S. delegates have already received receipts; if you haven’t received yours, please contact U.S. registrant James Gernert jgernert@yahoo.com.
Cheers!
Connie
Connie Crosby
Canadian Co-chair
crosbyc@weirfoulds.com
(416) 947-5057
September 30, 2007
Isn’t it convenient when real life illustrates a topic?
I doubt that it’s news to the Canadians in the audience, but for our American cousins, Canada Law Book announced that it intends to remove its content from LexisNexis Quicklaw with the expiry of its license agreement on March 31, 2008, with the aim of expanding its own suite of online offerings. The implications of this decision are unclear at this moment – by next spring, we’ll have a better sense of what this means for libraries.
The announcement serves to highlight the timeliness of the Friday morning plenary, Pipe Dream to Pipeline : The Future of Legal Information and Law Publishing. For me, this session has gone from a “nice to have” to one of the most important items on the program. Does the Canada Law Book announcement presage a fundamental shift in the marketplace, or is it a one-off? The legal marketplace seems to segmenting into mega-firms and boutiques – are we seeing the same model emerge in publishing?
Join our panel of legal publishing insiders as we explore their opportunities and challenges. (I’ve been privately speculating about the future of the case law report, with the rise of the “LII” – Legal Information Institute).
Wendy
2 comments September 28, 2007
Hotel – Today is Last Day for Booking!
Mary Saulig (your Local Arrangements Committee Chair) and I are just about to head up to the Marriott Eaton Centre to make final arrangements for booking sessions into meeting rooms, and have a look at the list of guests who have booked rooms for the conference. Meanwhile, a number of other committee members will be taking one last site visit to see how we will be laying everything out. We are coming down to the final crunch on all fronts!
Which reminds me, today is the last day to book a room with the conference hotel at our conference rate price. After this, you will pay their regular rates and your booking will not count towards our numbers to off-set meeting room costs. So, if you are thinking of coming, I urge you to book today! Don’t delay!!
Cheers,
Connie Crosby
September 26, 2007
Come dancing….
Can’t attend the conference, but in Toronto (and area) on October 20? Why not join us for the closing banquet?
Please come meet colleagues and new friends, enjoy a great meal and dance the night away – all are welcome!
Use the registration form, indicate that you’ll be registering only for the banquet, and make your cheque out to NE2007!
For those of us who are attending the conference, don’t forget that you can register your favourite dance partner as a guest at the opening reception and the closing banquet.
September 25, 2007
Hotel – Wed. Sept. 26 is deadline for conference discount!
This Wednesday, September 26th is the deadline for booking your hotel at the special conference rate of $199 Cdn per night. After that, the hotel block is released back to the wild and prices will likely be significantly higher for a room.
Even if you are uncertain and still thinking about attending, you should reserve a room now.
Book from this page on our main website: Accommodation
September 24, 2007
The clock is ticking!
From today, it’s exactly one month until we meet in Toronto. Have you registered yet?
Remember that we cannot accept electronic registrations, so in order to ensure that your information and fees are received in time, you should allow 7-10 days for the post.
See you soon!
September 17, 2007
Session summary: Cross-border White Collar Crime
Crime - even white collar crime - recognizes no borders and recent high profile cases like Martha Stewart, and Conrad Black make it appear to be an increasing problem in today’s international financial markets and industry. Brian H. Greenspan is Canada’s pre-eminent white collar criminal lawyer, who frequently deals with cross border issues, and he will be speaking at NE2007on October 20th courtesy of TALL. Mr. Greenspan has defended CEOs, hockey players, directors and politicians on such charges as money-laundering, fraud, and “tipping” among other things. He was recently profiled with his brother Eddie Greenspan, also a criminal lawyer, who most recently defended Conrad Black in Chicago, in a Toronto Life article entitled “Criminal Minds.” The article quotes Justice John Sopinka of the Supreme Court of Canada: “Hire Brian Greenspan…He’s the best lawyer who ever appeared before me.”Mr. Greenspan was also recently profiled by the Financial Post as a top white collar criminal defence specialist. In the article “White-collar clients rely on specialists,” Mr. Greenspan commented on the differences and similarities of American vs. Canadian justice systems and speculated on “one high-profile American defendant would have been better off in the Canadian system. Martha Stewart would have been tried in Canada by a judge alone and she would almost certainly have testified in her own defence. Most Canadian lawyers believe she would have been acquitted. She certainly couldn’t have done any worse.”
The Toronto Association of Law Libraries is sponsoring session L-2 Cross-border White Collar Crime with Brian Greenspan. Check the program for time and date.
Posted on behalf of Erica Anderson, Toronto Association of Law Libraries.
September 14, 2007
