The Yunusov Question
Episodes

Table of conversations

Every episode since the first, in 99 entries, newest first. 99 have transcripts so far.

  1. 99Noel Semple57:23Oct 2026The Civil Rules Review, judicial independence, and civil jury trialsTranscript
  2. 98Justice Todd Archibald38:52Mar 20261,500 mediations, 22 years as a judge and persuasive mediation briefsTranscript
  3. 97Caroline Mandell47:24Dec 2025Executive Function, Focus, and Performing Better as a LawyerTranscript
  4. 96Justice David Brown1:01:06Nov 2025The Charter, judicial accountability and civil justice reformTranscript
  5. 95Sujit Choudhry57:48Jul 2025Charter litigation, polarization, and notwithstanding clauseTranscript
  6. 94Kannon Shanmugam45:05Jun 2025SCOTUS, DOJ, Antonin Scalia, Ken Starr, and changing meanings of wordsTranscript
  7. 93Walied Soliman48:00Jan 2025Global law firms, corporate lawyers, special situations, and the Middle EastTranscript
  8. 92Annamaria Enenajor50:28Dec 2024Intelligence, the ideals of criminal law practice, and fighting crimeTranscript
  9. 91Ken McEwan, K.C.39:44Oct 2024The Rogers case, litigating on the West coast, and Ontario's influence on BCTranscript
  10. 90Justice Mew55:42Sep 2024Being from England, hearing civil and criminal cases, limitation periods, and emotionTranscript
  11. 89Justin Safayeni57:09Jul 2024Stockwoods, admin law, defending journalists, and growth as a litigatorTranscript
  12. 88Peter Cho55:37May 2024Civil juries and trialsTranscript
  13. 87Michael Geist48:16Apr 2024Intellectual property, digital policy, AI, and law studentsTranscript
  14. 86Geoff Hall45:41Mar 2024Contractual interpretation, standards v. bright lines, and a $5 billion trialTranscript
  15. 85Barry Weintraub1:05:57Feb 2024Mental toughness, civility, judges, law firms, and the formula of successTranscript
  16. 84Ewa Krajewska47:45Jan 2024The Emergencies Act challenge, cabinet confidences, frozen accounts, and the appealTranscript
  17. 83Nelson Rosario59:02Jan 2024What cryptocurrency and AI will do to the financial systemTranscript
  18. 82Kathryn Marshall45:05Dec 2023Canadian politics, fighting, high-profile cases, and the court of public opinionTranscript
  19. 81Gillian Hnatiw56:30Nov 2023Sexual misconduct law, switching firms, building her own firm, and hiring juniorsTranscript
  20. 80Adam Goldenberg52:24Sep 2023Empathy in litigation, working in Canada after Yale Law, and public policyTranscript
  21. 79Jordan Goldblatt49:00Jun 2023Slytherin litigators, his litigation playbook, boutiques, and defending lawyersTranscript
  22. 78Joe Groia59:00May 2023The Bre-X case, civility and incivility, Law Society, and control of the narrativeTranscript
  23. 77Beverley McLachlin56:24Apr 2023Her name, Court of Appeal judges, deciding Charter cases, and Hong KongTranscript
  24. 76Dominique Hussey57:22Apr 2023Big Law governance, equity partners, being Black, and the future of women in lawTranscript
  25. 75Valarie Matthews49:54Mar 2023Harvard Law, love, and marriage contractsTranscript
  26. 74Marie Henein53:49Mar 2023Fame, criminal lawyers, being other, and expanding into civil litigationTranscript
  27. 73Monique Jilesen59:31Feb 2023Running Lenczner Slaght, doubts, her day at work, injunctions and trialsTranscript
  28. 72Sarit Batner1:00:19Feb 2023Math and law, McCarthy Tétrault, medical negligence trials, and empathyTranscript
  29. 71Justice Andrea Himel58:49Feb 2023Family Court Branch, family law, family lawyers, and family court litigationTranscript
  30. 70Cynthia Kuehl50:56Jan 2023Law firm strategy, the life of a litigation file, and what men can learn from womenTranscript
  31. 69George Strathy49:30Jan 2023Appellate advocacy, mental health of the profession, and the good old daysTranscript
  32. 68ACJO Michal Fairburn53:02Dec 2022How the Court of Appeal works, appellate lawyers, leadership, and changeTranscript
  33. 67Harpreet Saini50:13Nov 2022The criminal lawyer's mindset, murder trials, complex issues of fact, and juriesTranscript
  34. 66Earl Cherniak48:22Nov 2022His famous cases, longevity in law, and on Lerners LLPTranscript
  35. 65Justice Paul Perell57:16Sep 2022Class actions, judicial rotations, and the limits of legal researchTranscript
  36. 64Trish Callon53:19Aug 2022Sun Life, growing in-house, her day-to-day as a GC, and the future of insuranceTranscript
  37. 63Ewa Krajewska49:18Jul 2022Public and constitutional practice, hiring lawyers, and why she joined HHLLPTranscript
  38. 62Jason Gottlieb53:48Jul 2022Litigating in New York and differences between US and Canadian court proceedingsTranscript
  39. 61Jonathan Lisus39:09Jul 2022Litigation boutiques, nation-state clients, self-reps, referrals, commercial listTranscript
  40. 60Bhuvana Rai47:13Jun 2022Clerking at the Tax Court, litigating against the CRA, and starting her own firmTranscript
  41. 59Sana Halwani49:42Jun 2022Lenczner Slaght, patent trials, and reputation of lawyersTranscript
  42. 58Justice Jasmine Akbarali53:05May 2022The situation in the Superior Court, lawyers, Caselines, and moreTranscript
  43. 57Peter Henein47:48Apr 2022Comedy and litigation, making partner at Cassels, his last name, and his ambitionsTranscript
  44. 56Michael Lubetsky49:31Apr 2022Davies, tax litigation, and his unusual path to lawTranscript
  45. 55Justice David Stratas1:02:34Apr 2022Vavilov, cooperation between judges, and the federal courtsTranscript
  46. 54Pulat Yunusov and Alyssa Tomkins1:24:24Mar 2022Freezing crypto, possessing money, and Indexed Finance, part 2Transcript
  47. 53Pulat Yunusov and Alyssa Tomkins42:23Mar 2022Public and private keys, Bitcoin, Ethereum, and mining, part 1Transcript
  48. 52Danielle Robitaille50:11Mar 2022Henein Hutchison LLP, the love of her life, and the future of criminal lawTranscript
  49. 51AG Doug Downey42:31Mar 2022The pandemic effect on the justice system, current status and plans for the futureTranscript
  50. 50Suzanne Chiodo52:30Feb 2022Legal academia, what academics do for lawyers, and love for civil procedureTranscript
  51. 49Caroline Mandell47:34Feb 2022Lessons from the ONCA, common written advocacy mistakes, and our brainTranscript
  52. 48Marlon Hylton43:14Feb 2022Jamaicans, achievement in law, electronic records, and the future of e-discoveryTranscript
  53. 47Barry Glaspell49:11Jan 2022Class action defence, counsel fees, and the class action regime in OntarioTranscript
  54. 46Ed Waitzer37:44Jan 2022Corporate lawyers and litigators, oppression remedy, and the future of corporate lawTranscript
  55. 45Justice Fred Myers47:28Dec 2021Becoming a judge, lawyer competency, electronic trials, and changes to comeTranscript
  56. 44Julia Hanigsberg37:44Nov 2021Life-long exploration, defining success, and being a lawyer in times of changeTranscript
  57. 43Andrew Monkhouse50:01Oct 2021Building a top growing employment law firm in CanadaTranscript
  58. 42Justice Lorne Sossin41:18Oct 2021His origin story, what surprised him at ONCA, and the 80/20 ruleTranscript
  59. 41Evan Thomas44:42Sep 2021Wealthsimple Crypto, why lawyers go into blockchain, and the future of blockchain lawTranscript
  60. 40Bob Tarantino45:57Aug 2021Entertainment law, why clients go to big firms and what LSO will be like in 20 yearsTranscript
  61. 39Doron Gold54:00Aug 2021Emotional challenges, seeking help, becoming a happy lawyer and defining achievementTranscript
  62. 38Justin Nasseri48:26Jul 2021McCarthy's, his law school strategy, litigation excellence, and getting clientsTranscript
  63. 37Suzan Fraser55:04Jul 2021Mental health, coroner's inquests, funding social justice, and humanizing clientsTranscript
  64. 36Erin Durant37:53Jun 2021Leaving BLG, her own firm near Ottawa, civil trials, and a subscription planTranscript
  65. 35Chris Bentley and Colin Stevenson40:01Apr 2021Access to justice, Zoom in courts, and the regulatory sandboxTranscript
  66. 34Peter Carayiannis52:51Apr 2021Conduit Law, fractional general counsel, the billable hour, and a watch companyTranscript
  67. 33Pulat Yunusov34:20Apr 2021Osgoode, a minimum viable practice, a paperless office, and preventing emergenciesTranscript
  68. 32Ranjan Agarwal42:30Mar 2021Bennett Jones, public law litigation, litigation funding, the OBA, and diversityTranscript
  69. 31Neha Chugh35:01Mar 2021Starting a practice in Cornwall, hiring, cash flow, Legal Aid, and access to justiceTranscript
  70. 30Juda Strawczynski56:40Mar 2021Clerking at the Federal Court, Law Society policy, LawPRO, and legal techTranscript
  71. 29Andrea Sanche29:54Feb 2021Winnipeg, her LLM, investor liability, and the Advocates' Society 10+ CommitteeTranscript
  72. 28Erin O'Rourke40:53Feb 2021Ridley College, her own practice in St. Catharines, and employment lawTranscript
  73. 27Shaneka Shaw Taylor23:16Feb 2021Jamaica, municipal liability, and real estate agents' standard of careTranscript
  74. 26Andrew Bernstein48:14Jan 2021Preferring Toronto to NYC, exceptional litigators, U of T, and clerking at SCCTranscript
  75. 25Maureen Whelton34:49Jan 2021The ideal litigator, written advocacy, running Stevenson Whelton, and hiringTranscript
  76. 24Chantelle Cseh27:14Dec 2020Class action defence at Davies, the Ontario amendments, resilience, and technologyTranscript
  77. 23Darin Thompson53:43Dec 2020Designing legal systems for users, the Solution Explorer, and expert systemsTranscript
  78. 22Ren Bucholz34:21Nov 2020Journalism, treaty work in Geneva, clerking at the Court of Appeal, and defamationTranscript
  79. 21Gary Kalaci40:15Nov 2020Seven languages, Alexa Translations, machine translation, and CanLII headnotesTranscript
  80. 20Shannon Salter49:35Nov 2020The BC Civil Resolution Tribunal, human-centered design, mediation, and oathsTranscript
  81. 19Monica Goyal45:29Oct 2020Engineering and law, My Legal Briefcase, Aluvion, and virtual in-house counselTranscript
  82. 18Caryma Sa'd52:46Oct 2020Lenczner Slaght, her own practice, comics and billboards, and cross-cultural talkTranscript
  83. 17Colin Lachance50:58Oct 2020CanLII's origins, being CEO, legal APIs, and the Legal Innovation Data InstituteTranscript
  84. 16Alyssa Tomkins47:39Oct 2020Clerking at the Supreme Court, litigating in French, and the "justice of the case"Transcript
  85. 15David Sterns28:45Sep 2020The 2020 Bill 161 class actions amendments, predominance, and access to justiceTranscript
  86. 14Ian Hu39:04Sep 2020Money and lawyers, financial independence, contingency fees, and litigation fundingTranscript
  87. 13Anna Malazhavaya31:34Sep 2020CEBA: the application deadline, allowed spending, forgiveness, the guaranteeTranscript
  88. 12Adrienne Zaya33:59Sep 2020Law school in the UK, networking for articling, mentors, and being called in 2020Transcript
  89. 11Michael Lesage42:15Sep 2020Running for bencher, practising in Florida, e-filing, and court delaysTranscript
  90. 10Rakhmad Sobirov35:49Aug 2020The ICC, moving to Canada, building a law firm, and business immigrationTranscript
  91. 9Kayla Cardinal Lafrance38:20Aug 2020Civil and common law, a French legal clinic, and French in tribunalsTranscript
  92. 8Addison Cameron-Huff51:47Aug 2020Crypto law, a lawyer who codes, flat monthly fees, short contractsTranscript
  93. 7Kat Lyadova37:25Aug 2020Design and linguistics, branding law firms, lawyer marketing, and court formsTranscript
  94. 6Omar Ha-Redeye40:32Aug 2020Durham Community Legal Clinic, Legal Aid funding, poverty alleviation, tribunalsTranscript
  95. 5Ian Hu49:47Jul 2020Philosophy and Kierkegaard, EDI, estates litigation, and the Public Guardian and TrusteeTranscript
  96. 4Lawrence Gridin33:24Jul 2020Criminal trials, admissibility of evidence, preliminary inquiries, and automatismTranscript
  97. 3Anna Malazhavaya33:38Jul 20202020 CRA audit trends, risk software, tax evasion, and COVID relief auditsTranscript
  98. 2Neil Wilson28:41Jul 2020Real estate litigation, purchaser defaults, time of the essence, and CPL motionsTranscript
  99. 1Tom McElroy41:41Jun 2020Licensed insolvency trustees, proposals and bankruptcy, receiverships, and CRA debtsTranscript