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After the Montreal Star became defunct, the Montreal Gazette snapped up Legal-Ease
and I then syndicated it across the country.
One major change. The column was now based on common law which I had never studied,
But it didn't seem to matter! The written case had it all: the facts... and the law!
Syndication itself was easy.
Once Legal Ease had been published in only one newspaper, it was a "known" product.
And I was a "known" columnist!
No paper now had to take a gamble on an "untested" column.
Besides, it was the first legal writing that everyone could understand...and enjoy!
Legal-Ease lasted 6 years when a mini-depression in Canada ended its life prematurely.
Four years later You! be the Judge was born and became a nation-wide phenomenon.
And all this happened because I started out with a passion that drove me to write a law column
but didn't even know what a column was!
3 - HOW I STOPPED THE TORONTO STAR FROM QVETCHING!
