Port Medway

From 7pm

Old Meeting House, Port Medway

167 Long Cove Rd, Port Medway, NS

http://portmedwayreadersfestival.com

$20.--

Philip Slayton taught law at McGill University and was the dean of law at the University of Western Ontario before turning to legal practice. He worked at a major Canadian law firm on Bay Street. Since retiring from the practice of law in 2000, he has become the author of two best-selling books: Lawyers Gone Bad: Money, Sex and Madness in Canada’s Legal Profession, published in hard cover by Viking Canada in 2007, in paperback by Penguin Canada in 2008, and as an ebook in 2010; and Mighty Judgment: How the Supreme Court of Canada Runs Your Life, published in hard cover and as an ebook in 2011 by Allen Lane and as a paperback by Penguin Canada in 2012. In 2014 he independently published Bay Street: A Novel, a legal thriller. Philip's latest book is Mayors Gone Bad, a series of profiles of recent and current Canadian mayors gone amok.