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Thursday, January 12, 2017 @ 7:00 PM | By Donalee Moulton

Upholding the law can be a deadly undertaking in many parts of the world. In August, approximately 60 lawyers lost their lives in Quetta, Pakistan. As they crowded into the emergency room of a local hospital to pay respects to a colleague shot to death only a short time before, a bomb exploded. According to The Washington Post, this single act wiped out an entire generation of lawyers in the city of more than 565,000 people.

The reverberations were felt throughout the world. Canadian lawyers may...

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