by Andriessen & Associates | Jun 3, 2010 | Commercial Leasing, Copyright & Trade-mark, Corporate documentation, Employment issues, Estate Planning, Litigation
Lately I’ve found that I don’t like the way I have traditionally answered the question: “What do you do?” My answer for the past 17 years has generally been “I”m a corporate/commercial trial lawyer”. This response has...
by Andriessen & Associates | May 20, 2010 | Commercial Leasing, Copyright & Trade-mark, Corporate documentation, Employment issues, Estate Planning, Litigation
It’s not as if this topic is something we’re looking forward to, but it will be a reality for Ontario at the end of next month – the HST is coming and it will make a change to the bottom line on your legal fees. Currently only GST is charged on legal fees. Certain...
by Andriessen & Associates | Apr 30, 2010 | Corporate documentation, Estate Planning
It’s the last day to file your personal income taxes, so tax status and the treatment of income is on my mind. That and the fact that we’ve had a few questions from professional clients recently about the advantages of incorporating their practices means that today...
by Andriessen & Associates | Apr 21, 2010 | Corporate documentation, Employment issues, Litigation
On June 15, 2010, the Bill 168 amendments to the Occupational Health and Safety Act come into force. The amendments require virtually all Ontario employers to conduct a violence risk assessment and to implement policies to address workplace harassment and violence. ...
by Andriessen & Associates | Mar 11, 2010 | Commercial Leasing, Corporate documentation, Litigation
A recent Court of Appeal case affirming an earlier Supreme Court decision, provides some interesting, and possibly surpirsing, commentary on the allocation of risk in commercial leases. In 1044589 Ontario Inc. carrying on business as Nantucket Business Centre v AB...
by Andriessen & Associates | Feb 8, 2010 | Corporate documentation, Employment issues, Litigation
We are often asked to act for clients who have issues that stem from a conflict of privacy expectations in the workplace. The expectation never seems to come to a head until there is point issue such as a termination or a workplace incident. At that point we’re...
