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excerpt from The Lawyers Weekly by Donnalee Moulton For more than 150 years, Citadel Hill in Halifax has dominated the city it was built to protect. For over three decades, the former fortress has welcomed hundreds of thousands of visitors to explore its bastions, its barracks and its artifacts. Now a decade-long court battle over […]

Cox & Palmer joined the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner (OIPC) today to celebrate winners of OIPC’s 2nd Right to Know Week Essay Competition. The essay competition was part of Right to Know Week 2011 and challenged students to write on the following topic: “In the era of Wikileaks, where should the line […]

Cox & Palmer is pleased to announce that its St. John’s office has recently been short-listed for the Newfoundland and Labrador Employers’ Council (NLEC) Employer of Distinction Award. The NLEC Employer of Distinction Award recognizes employers who place value on their workforce, give back to the community they build, and set new standards for excellence […]

Cox & Palmer proudly endorses the New Brunswick Innovative Foundation’s goal of strengthening the province’s innovation capacity. That’s why we’re calling on New Brunswick companies to pitch their ideas as part of NBIF’s R3 Innovation Challenge. The two companies with the most innovative and commercially viable ideas will be matched with a New Brunswick researcher […]

Congratulations to DeNovaMed Inc., the provincial winner of Innovacorp’s I-3 Technology Start-Up Competition. Innovacorp’s I-3 competition finds and supports early stage Nova Scotia knowledge-based companies and encourages entrepreneurial activity across the province. Cox & Palmer is a proud partner of this competition and would like to congratulate the 2011-2012 winners. Winners are awarded cash, seed […]

Rebecca Atkinson (third), associate in our Saint John office, along with her teammates Jodie deSolla (lead), Jill Babin (second), Andrea Kelly (fourth) and Jeanette Murphy (fifth), will represent New Brunswick next month at the Canadian Women’s Curling Championship in Red Deer, Alberta. Rebecca graduated from the University of New Brunswick Law School in 2008 and […]

The recipient of the Cox & Palmer Creative Writing Award was announced yesterday at the 3rd annual SPARKS Literary Festival in St. John’s. Randy Drover, a recent graduate of Memorial University and an award winning poet, was presented a $2,500 cheque for his outstanding achievement the field of creative writing. The award was created as […]

The peer-review publication The Best Lawyers in Canada® 2012, has named the following 31 Cox & Palmer lawyers as leading practitioners: NEW BRUNSWICK Michael Bowlin, Insurance Law Peter Forestell QC, Corporate Law Raymond Glennie QC, Corporate Law, Real Estate Law David Hashey QC, Corporate and Commercial Litigation, Energy Regulatory Law, Health Care Law, Insurance Law […]

Cox & Palmer is pleased to announce that George L. Cooper has been elected New Brunswick Managing Partner. George is based in Moncton and will continue as Moncton Managing Partner. Josh J.B. McElman also joins the firm’s provincial management team as Saint John Managing Partner and John D. Townsend, QC has been re-elected Managing Partner […]