I am among the most privileged people on the planet: a well-educated, healthy, tall, white, heterosexual male. I am not sure which of those adjectives provide me with more privilege than the others ...

Attorney-client privilege. Most people have heard of it, and most have a general idea it means. But what, exactly, is attorney-client privilege? What's its purpose? What does it cover? When does it ...

Wanda Sykes told a story about walking with a white friend on a hot day and slipping into a corner store for a couple of bottles of cold water. The friend opened her bottle and started drinking it on ...

In Canada, there are practising patent agents and trademarks agents who are not lawyers. They are not admitted to any bar of any province or territory in Canada and are not members of any law society.

The word “privilege” is becoming more commonplace–it’s being said and heard more often. Some become defensive at the mention of the word, without truly understanding what it means and how it affects ...

White privilege is not an indictment against hard work or denial of personal hardship. And white privilege does not mean, as conservative commentator John Myers claims, that “everything is whitey’s ...

In her Emily Litella guise, Gilda Radner often posed the question, “What’s all this fuss I hear about …?” From one “Saturday Night Live” week to the next, it would be one thing and then another. In ...

What follows is for the benefit of one William James O’Reilly Jr. — “Bill” to his fans. Last summer, Mr. O’Reilly, a pundit for Fox “News,” spent time talking about white privilege and his contention ...