Rumours about lawyer who sexually harassed women had been circulating in legal community for years: docs

Details from a cache of law society documents used by a tribunal to find that four women were sexually harassed by now-disbarred Ottawa lawyer James Bowie — details which have not been reported until now — raise troubling questions about what the capital’s legal community knew when, and whether colleagues should have spoken up before a client of Bowie’s blew the whistle in 2022.