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{mosimage} COVER STORY

Dare we say the 'R' word?

Changes in the global economy mean it will be a busy but unpredictable year for lawyers serving business clients
By Helen Burnett

FEATURES
 

Data destruction: the price of security is eternal vigilance

Protecting information extends beyond the useable life cyce of electronics, and even discarded machines need to be properly disposed of.

By Ian Harvey


LEGAL REPORT: CLASS ACTIONS
The power of collaboration

Banding together allows smaller plaintiffs' firm to hold their own in class actions defended by the might of the big players.
By Ian Harvey


LEGAL REPORT: ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT
To carbon tax or not to carbon tax

That’s one of the biggest questions facing business, government, and
regulators that have to find a way to curb greenhouse gas emissions without doing serious damage to the economy.
By Kirsten McMahon

 
   

  DEPARTMENTS
 
 

Regional Wrap-Up
A look at what's happening from coast to coast
 

 

Managing Partner
A woman takes the reind at Parlee McLaws

By Gail J. Cohen


Associates 
The zeros matter
By Bill Rogers

 

Law Office Management

Compensation counterculture

By Kevin Marron

 

Tech Support

Beware the IT jabberwock

By Gerry Blackwell

 

 

 

  OPINIONS
   

Editor's Desk

By Gail J. Cohen

 

Top Court Tales

'I can do better than that'

By Philip Slayton

Back Page

The nanny state goes too far

By Ezra Levant

 

  2008 SOFTWARE & TECHNOLOGY PRODUCT GUIDE
   
 

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