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If you have a fabulous associate on your team, make no mistake: the competition is planning to poach that person away. So how can you retain your best talent? To start, you’ll need to scrap the annual review and end your obsession with origination credits.

Treat your top lawyers like royalty If you want to impress (and keep) your best talent, you’ll need to scrap the annual review and end your obsession with origination credits

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The demands on in-house counsel have never been so high. In this story, we serve up practical advice on how to succeed in a corporate legal department.

The in-house counsel playbook How to succeed in a corporate legal department

This year, announce your incoming first-year associates on The Precedent A-List. Once your posts are live, they’ll appear on social media and in The A-List newsletter. Get started today.

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For much of his life, Brian Studniberg, a partner at Henein Hutchison Robitaille LLP, knew he was different. At 37, he finally discovered why. “It created the most profound sense of relief,” he recalls. “It felt almost like serenity. I knew at last that what I was experiencing was a consequence of other forces—that there was a deeper cause.”

Brian Studniberg on practising law with an invisible disability And what the legal profession can learn from his story

This hireback season, many articling students landed a plum associate position. But others accepted a role on the document-review team, signed a short-term contract or opted out of the hireback process to escape a toxic workplace. “In other words, the transition to post-articling life takes many forms,” writes Daniel Waldman, a partner at Dickinson Wright. In this column, he offers advice on how to navigate a wide range of hireback outcomes.

The complete guide to life after hireback Whether you landed your dream job, accepted a short-term contract or weren’t hired back at all, here’s how to succeed

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Throughout her career, Shara Roy has made a name for herself as a changemaker. Today, she’s committed to using her position to improve the profession in a meaningful way.

Shara Roy is leading an in-house revolution As chief legal counsel at EY Canada, Roy is in a position to reshape law for the better

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Now that hireback season is over, we’ve published our annual Bay Street Ranking—in which we sort the largest Toronto law offices by their individual hireback rates. Check out the final tally on our website.

The Bay Street Hireback Ranking Find out which Toronto law firms hired back the most articling students this year

From the Archives: The causes of alcohol abuse in the legal profession are more complicated than you might think.

The legal profession’s alcohol problem What’s the real reason lawyers drink?

In a short-but-revealing interview, Marie Henein spoke to us about her dog, what she values most in colleagues and when she’s at her happiest. She also offered up some pithy advice to new lawyers: “Focus on what you can control: yourself, your level of skill and the quality of your work. Everything else in this business is largely out of your control.”

Marie Henein answers the Precedent questionnaire The well-known Toronto lawyer on her dog, what she values in colleagues and her most extravagant purchase