“My dad owns every law firm in this province,” the lawyer’s daughter laughed after ramming her brand-new Tesla into my old Subaru

boardrooms and quiet, expensive coffee machines no one but the partners are allowed to touch.

There was something else, too.

A short piece on a government website from three months back: The federal government was taking bids for legal services connected to a massive infrastructure initiative—roads, bridges, transit, the usual public-works alphabet soup.continue reading …