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Dallas Mack, creator and blogger at Mack's Criminal Law, is a graduate of the University of Ottawa with a BSc, Honours Chemistry, and an LLB.  After graduating with his LLB in 2001 Dallas articled at the Crown Attorney's office in Ottawa and was hired after his call to the bar of Ontario in September 2002.  

For more than two decades Dallas regularly prosecuted criminal matters in the Ontario Court of Justice and Superior Court of Justice and has argued appeals at the summary conviction appeal level and the Ontario Court of Appeal.

In addition to his work as an Assistant Crown, Dallas was a co-author of the Crown Weekly Netletter, published on Lexis-Nexis Quicklaw, from 2002 until September 2010 and of Mack’s Expert Evidence Compendium, published on Westlaw Edge Canada (from 2016 to 2019). Presently he authors a number of publications including Mack's Criminal Law Bulletin, published on Westlaw Edge Canada, CriminalSource, Mack's Criminal Law Trial Book, published by Thomson Reuters and Mack’s Jury Charge Review, published on Westlaw Edge Canada. Dallas has also published papers on topics ranging from impaired driving to investigative detention [see Publications]. Dallas is the co-founder and one of the Chief editors of a bilingual open source, annotated Criminal Code: CriminalCodeCriminel.ca. The Blog, which includes guests posts, has received awards including Feedspot awards in 2015, 2016 and 2017 (top 75 criminal law blogs and top 100 law blogs) and a Clawbies in 2015.

Dallas is an adjunct professor at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law,. From 2010 until 2017 he taught Forensic Science and Criminal Law. Currently he is teaching a trial advocacy course, The Trial of a Murder and a course on Criminal Code Annotations. He regularly lectures for the Ottawa Police Service and the Ontario Crown Attorney's Association on topics including impaired driving (alcohol and drugs) and search and seizure. For several years Dallas was a member of CanFRWG providing legal advice to forensic fingerprint examiners.

Dallas is the recipient of the Nelligan O'Brien Payne Award, an Excelsior Award (from the Ministry of the Attorney General, Ontario), the OPP Commissioner's Commendation and the Prosecutor of the Year Award (from the International Association of Financial Crime Investigators).