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Planning For a Business Break-up

There is a great article in the Globe and Mail this week about the breakup of the business partnership behind the popular restaurant Le Papillon.   The story is an excellent example of what can go right when people plan ahead for the future of a business, and when, failing that, they act reasonably in

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Massive Changes to the Internet Domain Name System

Are you ready for the changes that are coming to the internet domain name registry system?  If you do business on the internet, or if your online presence represents a significant aspect of your brand, then you better get ready.   After years of consultation and planning, ICANN will be introducing two major changes to

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Go Canada – Own the Podium !

We are interrupting the usual legal topics on this blog due to the 2010 Vancouver Olympics.    Boy do I love the Olympics – you? Boy do I love controversy – of course I do, I’m a trial lawyer.  Boy do I love the concept of Owning the Podium – if only it were actually happening,

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The Expectation of Privacy in the Workplace

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 asked to go back and determine whose

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Lawyer Client Confidentiality

One of the benefits of using a lawyer instead of an accountant or paralegal is that what you tell your lawyer cannot be revealed to others. Many people don’t realize that if they have evaded income tax and speak to their accountant about it, the accountant can be required to give evidence about that conversation

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Changes to a Contract

This week NBC announced that its failed experiment with late night television in prime time was coming to end – sending Jay Leno back to 11:35 p.m. and bumping Conan O’Brien back after midnight.   I’m not privy to the details of either Leno’s or O’Brien’s contracts, but generally speaking, this sort of unilateral modification

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