TY - JOUR
AU - Russello, Gerald J.
AB - THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF LEGAL HISTORY Vol. XLI projects of the prosperity of the 1950s: the building of an oil pipeline between Alberta and Ontario by Imperial Oil, the Canadian subsidiary of Standard Oil, and other projects resulting from American interests in Canada. In 1958 Bertha Wilson, who later became the first woman on the Supreme Court of Canada, began articling at Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt, although not with­ out first encountering some resistance from the partnership due to her sex. As competition among law firms grew and the firm acquired more large corporate clients, its management structure and composition changed. Wilson became the firm's first female partner in 1968. Roman Catholics and those with no religious affiliation began to practice with Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt. The firm's first Jewish partner was not offered a partnership until 1977. Legally trained scions of the Osler family began choosing career paths outside the firm. The firm gradually evolved into the institution that it is today. Curtis Cole, in his prologue, locates his work by reference to a body of American law firm histories. He observes that firm insiders generally examine their firms from an internal perspective, whereas historians, sociologists and jour­ 
TI - Wild Beasts and Idle Humours: the Insanity Defense from Antiquity to the Present
JF - American Journal of Legal History
DO - 10.2307/846093
DA - 1997-10-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/wild-beasts-and-idle-humours-the-insanity-defense-from-antiquity-to-Vfc04mWnxT
SP - 478
EP - 480
VL - 41
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -