Slayton is the author of Lawyers Gone Bad: Money, Sex and Madness in Canada’s Legal Profession, published in hard cover by Viking Press in 2007,[3] in paperback by Penguin Group in 2008, and as an eBook in 2010.
[5] He was featured in a Maclean’s magazine cover story with the headline “Lawyers are Rats”,[6] and the Toronto Star labeled him “Public Enemy #1”.
[7] Maclean's noted that his interview "stirred up a great deal of controversy, including condemnation from the Canadian Bar Association, which criticized the article for "tarnish[ing] the reputation of thousands of professionals.
[9] Slayton’s second book, Mighty Judgment: How the Supreme Court of Canada Runs Your Life, was published in hard cover and as an eBook in 2011 by Allen Lane, and as a paperback by Penguin in 2012.
Slayton has received a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship and has served as President of the Canadian Rhodes Scholars Foundation and as Governor of Sheridan College.