Articles 2024

A short guide to saving time in your practice by improving email and file organization.

Summary and links to helpful limitation period resources provided by LAWPRO.

A short summary of advice for computing timelines in statutes and regulations.

Helpful advice for improving telephone communication skills - including five times it's best to pick up the phone, and six common bad telephone habits (and how to fix them).

A look at how COVID-19 impacts substitute healthcare decisions.

Business travel can be, in equal parts, thrilling and nerve-wracking, wondrous and monotonous, energizing and exhausting. Working as an international trade lawyer, I often travel to my clients, both within Canada and abroad, instead of the reverse. Of course, there is no one “right” way to travel for business. What follows are a few (hopefully) learned thoughts I have cultivated through my travels.

With a surge in the number of new legal tech startups come concerned citizens warning that lawyers will soon be replaced by artificial intelligence (AI). This unwarranted hype around AI is based on the misconception that we have developed a general or autonomous intelligence system - a computer system that mimics human intelligence, replicates human behavior in any context, and recognizes and resolves new problems for which it was not designed.

Force majeure provisions are often overlooked, but when drafted and invoked properly, they can be useful risk allocation tools. In the construction context, they can be used to allocate risk in case of a shortage of raw materials, extreme weather or a labour strike, among other events. Force majeure clauses excuse a party’s performance under a contract in full or in part, to the extent that the failure to perform is due to certain circumstances outside of the party’s control.