Articles
Michael Rappaport has served in management
and editorial positions at national association magazines and trade
newspapers. He has written hundreds of articles and his by-line has
appeared in the Canadian Bar Association’s magazine, the
National, the Canadian Corporate
Counsel Association’s quarterly magazine,
LEXPERT magazine, Canadian Lawyer
InHouse magazine, The Lawyers
Weekly, the parliamentary newspaper,
The Hill Times, the
National Post, WestJet’s in-flight
travel magazine, and numerous trade and tech publications.
Below is a selection of columns, articles, features, profiles and
book reviews, Mr. Rappaport has written for legal magazines and
newspapers. He has also included a handful of travel stories, since
Mr. Rapport is always willing to travel to an exotic, sunny, tourist
hot spot for a story.
Portfolio
Columns on law
- Nobody likes a lawyer until they need one
- Unbundling and the self-represented litigant
- Web 2.0: A brave new world wide web
- Don't kill billing by the hour, cap it instead
- The end of lawyers? Richard Susskind's
vision of the future of legal practice
Profiles of lawyers
- A small courtesy, a huge legal battle
- The Bay Street lawyer behind AIDSbeat
- The Ballad of John, Yoko and Jerry Levitan
- Step-by-step toward a cure for breast cancer
- The tale of The Honest Lawyer
Articles on law
- Beware the straw buyer
- Show and tell: Build your case by integrating images and words
- Business card sharks
- First e-discovery law boutique in Canada opens its doors
- Outsourcing in-house counsel: trailblazing firms lead the way
Features on law
- Lawyers as CEOs: Moving on up from the legal department to the executive suite
- Danger: Lawyer on Board
- Alumni programs mix networking with nostalgia
- Courting technology
- Read the fine print: Can legal insurance make access to justice more affordable for low and middle-income Canadians?
Reviews of legal
books
- Judges done good
- How to get more: negotiation strategies for the real world
- The plight of the Stoney Nation: Memoirs of a maverick First Nations community judge
- Passing it on to pets: Fat Cats and Lucky Dogs
- Tug of
War: A judge testifies on family law
Travel stories


