Ontario lawyers are soon going to be electing the Benchers who oversee the Law Society - and since lawyers are a self-regulating profession, that's more important than it might at first sound. Rebecca Durcan is running for Bencher, and in this conversation we talk about the risks that professions pose to the public, the ongoing controversies that have resulted in this election being - for the first time in history - contested by two slates of opposing lawyers, and why this might end up being the last Bencher election. Oh, and stick around to learn about how the Boston Marathon figures into it all.

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