Simon Fodden founded Slaw – Canada’s pre-eminent online legal magazine – more than nine years ago. This year, his announcement of retirement from the site was met with an outpouring of affection from many in the industry, both because of the sheer volume of his 3,000 posts, but more importantly because of the intellectual community he has built around the site. Simon is an institution; the annual “Fodden Award” for the best Canadian law blog is named in his honor.
