Geoff Creighton, senior vice president and general counsel at IGM Financial Inc.

Many Canadian corporate counsel are paying insufficient attention to arbitration as an aspect of dispute resolution risk management, lawyers argue.

Extending flow-through shares would ‘create a gargantuan opportunity,’ says Rick Sutin.

After years of talking about it, Canada’s biotechnology industry has mounted a serious lobby to extend flow-through shares to the sector.

Emergis Inc. has wooed away Toronto and B.C. real estate practitioners to help them on a national roll out of technology that will connect lawyers and mortgage lenders. It has the potential to keep lawyers entrenched in real estate deals and better manage costs.

With a new Mortgage Brokers Act afoot soon in Ontario, lawyers may have some new marketing opportunities — but there are caveats.

 

When it comes to doing business abroad, more and more companies — and their executives — are bumping into conflicting legal environments: as the Enron and Hollinger  cases show, their lawyers need to find out what’s out there, before the trouble starts.