Copywriter, technical writer, translator (FR>EN, ES>EN, IT>EN), journalist

Periodical Writing Samples

Tablets, legal e-books gaining ground

Anybody who doubts the arrival of electronic books need only check out a stunning five-minute TED Talk in which the presenter blows on a tablet screen to make a windmill on the screen spin. Legal e-books might not need such bells and whistles, but they are garnering

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Sound principles for gathering evidence

They’re not just for making calls anymore. Today’s smartphones create video and still images, and record audio too. Aside from the calling, much the same can be said of tablets. These two types of multimedia enter businesses every day in the hands of employees who may prefer

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Finding freelance work with Canadian governments

Canadian federal, provincial, and municipal governments buy billions of dollars’ worth of goods and services every year that they can’t make or perform in-house. Freelance writing figures among those services, so in December I, along with a few other freelancers, attended three workshops offered by the Ontario

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2011 was a year of links, locks and bots

This past year saw its share of advances in the technology sector, and Canadian law worked hard to keep up. Here are four developments in technology law and how they affect Canadians. 1. Delinking from defamation Can one publisher be another’s keeper? Not according to the Supreme

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Concord Park Place: Discovery

Concord Adex Development Corporation builds not just buildings but entire master-planned communities. One such community in northern Toronto is now bearing its first fruits; Concord Park Place Discovery has welcomed its first residents.

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E-trials in Canada: Bringing the courtroom into the future

To prepare for Mishkeegogamang v. Canada et al. and Slate Falls v. Canada et al. (two actions merged into one), attorneys for two plaintiffs and three defendants would need seven copies of more than 4,000 documents. Yet instead of hundreds of bankers boxes crowding the courtroom, I

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Kramer Design Associates

Toronto street furniture, of all things, has taken an exciting turn for the modern. New-look metal-and-wood benches, eye-catching glass transit shelters sporting cantilevered roofs and combination trash and recycling bins sporting pedal-operated lids add practical design flourishes to the town. These street-level touches of elegance are the

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Instant messaging: time waster or saver?

Tommy Richardson, a partner at the Phoenix, AZ-based personal injury litigation firm Friedl Richardson, stays connected with everybody else in the firm using Yahoo Messenger. “This way, we coordinate our responses to clients,” Richardson explains. “An associate can IM (instant message) me about how to answer client

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