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David J. Bilinsky is a Practice Management Consultant and lawyer for the Law Society of British Columbia.

He is a Fellow of the National Center for Technology and Dispute Resolution (NCTDR) at the University of Massachusetts. He is also a Fellow of the College of Law Practice Management and past Editor-in-Chief of ABA’s Law Practice Magazine.

For many years, David has been an adjunct professor at Simon Fraser University teaching a totally online, graduate level course in the Masters of Arts in Applied Legal Studies program. This MA program received the 2011 Award of Excellence from the Canadian Association for University Continuing Education. He has designed and has taught the first legal technology course in Canada for the University of Toronto Law School.

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Greetings: I started a daily email with a little idea to try to bring a bit of sunshine into our lives in these dark times.  This daily email  now has readers on 4 continents. I am gratified that this has resonated with so many of you.  I decided to start posting them here, so here goes. Today’s Smile for the Day. First, a Story: A photon was going through airport security.  The TSA agent asks…
Today’s Smile for the Day.First, a Story: Did you hear about the two people who stole a calendar? They each got six months. Second, a Song: Sounds of Silence by Simon and Garfunkel. What is not generally known is that the first recording of this song by Simon and Garfunkel was an acoustic version on their album Wed Morning, 3AM.  The album was a flop and resulted in S&G splitting up, Paul going back to…
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♫ All the little birdies on Jaybird Street Love to hear the robin go tweet tweet tweet…♫ Music and Lyrics by Thomas Jimmie, recorded by Michael Jackson. Would you pay attention to an emerging marketing platform that has seen a 663% increase in people over the last two years looking for recommendations around professional services? I would imagine you would. Twitter is that platform. Now: how many of you have a thoughtful, continual and…
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“Some changes are so slow, you don’t notice them, others are so fast, they don’t notice you.” —Ashleigh Brilliant BC’s Innovative online system resolves thousands of legal disputes—usually without lawyers. On July 13, 2016, the legal world changed in a small but significant way when an Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) Tribunal started taking its first cases in British Columbia, Canada. BC’s Civil Resolution Tribunal (CRT) drew on prior private law examples such as eBay and…
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♫ And if it’s bad Don’t let it get you down, you can take it.. Hold your head up, oh hold your head high… ♫ Music and Lyrics by Junod Etienne and Sean Price, recorded by Steppenwolf.   (Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay). When one thinks of toxic environments, one doesn’t tend to think of law offices as falling into that category. Yet I get calls from partners, associates and staff alike…
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Progress by Nick Youngson CC BY-SA 3.0 ImageCreator ♫ If not today Maybe tomorrow If not tomorrow Maybe in a week No matter how far I push it It needs to find me Progress ♫ Lyrics and Music by Booker T. Jones, James Edward JR Olliges, recorded by Booker T. Jones. Sometimes change happens so slowly, you don’t notice it. Sometimes change happens so quickly, it doesn’t notice you (Ashley Brilliant) Oct. 28, 2019 was…
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  ♫ It’s time we stop, hey, what’s that sound Everybody look what’s going down… ♫ – Music and lyrics by Stephen Stills, recorded by Buffalo Springfield. There is something happening here. Traditional lawyer regulation “has not proven to foster innovation” and this in turn is seen as holding back innovations that could increase access to justice. For example, in 2018, The Board of Trustees of the State Bar of California (“Board”) received…
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 Attribution: Chantal Pare. ♫ Everybody thinks you’re the lamestWe all know you’re a fraudLife can be so frustratingI’m so glad you got caught…♫                                                                             Music, Lyrics and recorded by: Hawk Nelson. Fraud in the workplace cost Canadian businesses $3.2 billion, reported the CBC in 2011 (the last date I could find statistics). While lawyers have been aware of, and taken steps to prevent, fraud attempts by outsiders on their trust accounts for some time…
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Creative Commons Zero – CC0 ♫ Nothing takes the past awayLike the futureNothing makes the darkness goLike the light…♫ Lyrics and Music by: M. Ciccone, M. L. Ciccone, P. Leonard, recorded by: Madonna After a break of a couple of years due to health concerns, we are resuming the New Year’s Legal Predictions Blog Post!  We have reached out to our friends & colleagues for their insights into the future of the legal world.  This year…