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