053803 Life at Fifteen
by Robert J. Gagnon
R J Gagnon Publishing; 336 pages; US $14.95 (Kindle eBook)
15 year-old Robert Gagnon needed to kick his drug and alcohol addiction. He decided that by robbing a bank, he would get the assistance he needed so badly. As a young offender, he thought he might have to stay [...]

The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
by Malcolm Gladwell
Little, Brown and Company; 304 pages; 19.99 paperback
Events and trends sometimes appear to evolve and spread on their own. While most understand that certain diseases like seasonal flus can become epidemic because of the potency of the virus or the environment, not [...]

SuperFreakonomics
By Steven D. Levitt and Stephen Dubner.
HarperCollins; 288 pages; $36.99
In 2005 rogue economist Steven Levitt and journalist Stephen Dubner partnered to write Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything. Filled with interesting topics on teachers who cheat, self-serving realtors, and crack-selling boys living with their moms, it was a blockbuster, remaining [...]

“The [boycott] move was not taken lightly. Many lawyers consider legal aid cases a vocational duty. But over the last 15 years that duty has become an untenable burden,” Dylan Young recently wrote for the magazine Precedent.*
Some outsiders, including lawyers practising outside the Legal Aid Ontario system, saw the boycott by the Criminal Lawyers’ Association [...]

Lawyerland: What Lawyers Talk About When They Talk About Law
By Lawrence Joseph
(1997) Farrar Straus Giroux; 225 pages; $31.00
What do lawyers talk about when they talk about law?
Joseph, a law professor at St. John’s University School of Law, reveals what lies underneath a lawyer’s skin through fictional interviews with lawyers from different areas of the law [...]