by Andriessen & Associates | Nov 28, 2012 | Corporate documentation, Employment issues, Litigation, Privacy
As practicing lawyers and business people, we’re not supposed to weigh in on contentious issues; so this week I’m not going to talk about the Middle East, Mayor Ford, plastic shopping bag bans, the Argos or the Nicki Minaj and Steven Tyler twitter feud. Except that I...
by Andriessen & Associates | Nov 21, 2012 | Corporate documentation, Litigation, Privacy
While there are undoubtedly any number of juicy moral indiscretions to be observed in the Petraeus scandal that has been unfolding over the past few weeks, for me, the informational security issues are the most salacious. It hasn’t been explicitly detailed, but it...
by Andriessen & Associates | Sep 27, 2012 | Commercial Leasing, Litigation, Small Claims Court
One of the areas where our firm really excels – and it’s an area that I don’t have a lot to do with, so my beaming sense of pride is socially acceptable – is in the area of collections. Whether it be in making sure you get paid for the work you do at the outset, on an...
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...
