by Andriessen & Associates | Nov 7, 2012 | Employment issues
Security in the workplace is important, as we expect those reading this blog will have sensitive information in their businesses that need protection. As you would protect your computers and servers with passwords, so you want to control entry to your place of...
by Andriessen & Associates | Sep 19, 2012 | Employment issues
I am trying to think of an exception to the “Rule” I’m about to make, but am unable to come up with one – if you can think of one, please email me and let me know. The “Rule” is – your employees are the most important asset of...
by Andriessen & Associates | Sep 12, 2012 | Employment issues, Litigation
Today I was reading the most recent Ontario Reports – the weekly digest every Ontario lawyer receives that includes some recent decisions of the Courts. I read with interest the summary of a case involving a lawsuit by a client against an Insurance Company and an...
by Andriessen & Associates | Jul 5, 2012 | Corporate documentation, Employment issues, Litigation, Privacy, Small Claims Court
An interesting decision was released last week by the Superior Court of New Jersey, a US state-level appeal court. According to the facts of the case, the defendant had accessed a co-worker’s Yahoo e-mail account from a computer lab terminal, which the plaintiff had...
by Andriessen & Associates | Jun 8, 2012 | Corporate documentation, Employment issues, Litigation, Privacy, Small Claims Court
Every once in a while we are lucky enough to get to work on the holy grail of a client’s operations – the policies and procedures manual. Sometimes it’s after our business compliance audit turns up some unexpected sources of liability, sometimes it’s after some...
by Andriessen & Associates | May 17, 2012 | Commercial Leasing, Copyright & Trade-mark, Corporate documentation, Employment issues, Estate Planning, Litigation, Our Take on Things, Privacy, Small Claims Court
Amidst all the Facebook IPO hype this week, there was the release of an e-mail from Mark Zuckerberg to his corporate lawyer, instructing them to dilute Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin’s share in the burgeoning company. Aside from the obvious professional...
