by Andriessen & Associates | Mar 23, 2012 | Corporate documentation, Employment issues, Privacy
It’s summertime (not really) and our thoughts naturally turn (again not really) to summer students, interns and other temporary employees. Some of these indentured servants, er, temporary workers, will return to their studies in the fall, some will wander off to other...
by Andriessen & Associates | Oct 27, 2011 | Commercial Leasing, Copyright & Trade-mark, Corporate documentation, Employment issues, Estate Planning, Litigation, Small Claims Court
One of the many positives to being a small law firm is the close interaction between the litigation and non-litigation sides of the firm. We meet together on a regular basis to discuss files from both perspectives (how to avoid litigation and what strategy to pursue...
by Andriessen & Associates | Jun 17, 2011 | Commercial Leasing, Copyright & Trade-mark, Corporate documentation, Employment issues, Estate Planning, Litigation, Small Claims Court
We’ve rolled out a new service for clients that has met with a considerable degree of success; so much so that we’re planning on expanding it in the coming months. Combining two of my favourite things – eating and getting free legal advice – our Lunch and Learn...
by Andriessen & Associates | Mar 24, 2011 | Corporate documentation, Employment issues, Litigation
On Tuesday, the Ontario Court of Appeal handed down its decision in R. v. Cole and in so doing, offered some much-needed clarity on the issue of employee privacy rights in the workplace. The Cole case dealt with a high school teacher who was found (by a school board...
by Andriessen & Associates | Mar 10, 2011 | Commercial Leasing, Corporate documentation, Employment issues, Litigation
I was reading an article the other day about the proliferation of GPS technology; specifically, how those wonderful satellites sitting in geosynchronous orbit around the Earth do so much more than tell our cars how to get to where we’re going. The time signals they...
by Andriessen & Associates | Feb 9, 2011 | Copyright & Trade-mark, Corporate documentation, Employment issues, Litigation
I recently had a client send me a news item from a local TV station. The story was about how GPS-enabled smartphones automatically geotag the pictures they took. Those geotags, a few bits of longitudinal and latitudinal information that indicate where the picture...
