Author Profile
Jordan Furlong
865 Carling Avenue,
Suite 500,
Ottawa,
Ontario,
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Canada
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About
Jordan Furlong is an Ottawa-based lawyer and legal journalist specializing in law practice innovation, legal business trends, and the changing landscape of the legal profession. He is currently Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Bar Association’s flagship magazine National, a position he has held for more than nine years. Jordan also serves as Executive Editor of the Canadian Corporate Counsel Association’s CCCA Magazine. He served as editor of the 2006 Innovaction e-zine on innovation in law practice management, and is the only Canadian to be made an Honourary Fellow of the College of Law Practice Management.
Areas of Expertise
- Legal publishing
- Online journalism
- Law practice management
- Legal innovation
Professional Experience
- Publisher, Law21.ca (January 2008-present)
- Executive Editor, Canadian Corporate Counsel Association (2007-present)
- Editor-in-Chief, Canadian Bar Association’s National Magazine (1999-present)
- Managing Editor/Writer, The Lawyers Weekly (1996-1998)
- Articling Clerk, Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP (1993-1994)
Education
- LL.B., Queens University (1993)
- BA w/ honors (English/Political Science), Memorial University of Newfoundland (1990)
Recent Articles
Jordan Furlong
We’re already seeing some dominoes start to wobble in the legal community, as the short- and medium-term impact of the financial crisis becomes clearer. If you’re a law firm CFO or a law student nearing graduation, you probably won’t like what’s coming. But it looks to me...
Jordan Furlong
Every online community loves a meta-conversation, a discussion about the community itself, and the blawgosphere is no exception. But even by those standards, the explosion of posts ignited by a law.com article on women law bloggers was remarkable for its strength and immediacy. Published yesterday,...
Jordan Furlong
It’s with some reluctance that I link to The American Lawyer’s Global 100 rankings (or at least, to the article about the rankings — the actual list is subscriber-only). I have an aversion to anything that roughly equates “law firm success” with “profit per...
Jordan Furlong
My semi-monthly column is up and running at Slaw. As always, I recommend you go read it there, because I guarantee you’ll find other very cool stuff at Canada’s best legal blog. If you haven’t visited lately, you might not know that Slaw has added great new bloggers like Dave...
Jordan Furlong
I don’t normally link to articles in National, the magazine I edit — this blog is my personal project and doesn’t necessarily represent my employer’s views, and so I try to keep Law21 and CBA in watertight compartments. But I’m making an exception for our September...