Welcome to the first issue of the Weakly Lawyer. Happy to have you reading. This is a publication for those of us in the trenches of the law profession, be it in school, articling, or practicing. This is a publication for those of us tired of the current law publications that stress “Big Deals” ad nauseum and arbitrarily rank lawyers by age. Basically we are tired of the pretension and money-centric view of most of the current publication; most of us are out in the world just scraping together a living, why not a magazine dealing with the lighter side of the law, a publication that isn’t concerned with how much money you make. This is that magazine. So welcome.

The Weakly Lawyer does not pretend to contain much information (though I’m sure we will include some at some time), but we do promise some entertainment and satire. The current publications that profess to speak for the legal profession take themselves far too seriously - I can’t, and don’t, believe that Canadian lawyers care one iota that Lawyer A in City B is pursuing a Cross-Border deal. Of course lawyers are pursuing business, it’s what we do. The staff here at the Weakly promise this: No More Filler. No more inane articles about how “Word of Mouth Advertising is the Best PR” or how “Blogging is the Next Big Thing”. This publication will attempt to provide some entertainment, as well as a forum for law students and lawyers across Western Canada to discuss the trials, tribulations and hilarity that is the backdrop of most of our lives. We promise to never once discuss how much money somebody is making nor create long winded articles about ‘big deals’ that don’t matter to anyone except the 10 lawyers involved. While we will be employed in some navel gazing, at least we’ll do it in a way that reflects the way 99% of lawyers go through their days. This is a publication for those of us is the trenches of the law.

The beauty of this publication is it is very cheap to put out. Thusly, it takes very little advertising dollars to keep us afloat. We will be sending this to all law firms in Saskatchewan (and some to Alberta, depending on how far our money stretches) and all Law Schools in Western Canada. If you are a small firm looking for either an articling student or an associate this is the paper for you. We believe this is a publication lawyer’s might actually read, as opposed to the millions of copies of other law publications that are (righteously) thrown into landfills every year. Please see our advertisement below for contact information and costs, or check out our website at www.weaklylawyer.com

Speaking of the website, we have posted all sorts of extra stuff on there; so check it out. We know you spend a lot of time stuck at your desk, the least we can do is provide a little bit of a distraction.

The Staff here at the Weakly are quite excited about this publication, and hope you enjoy reading it. Please feel free to send any messages of support (or anger) to our email addresses.

Sincerely, Graham Lang, Editor in Chief