originally published in Lawyers Weekly “I don’t think there’s anything that we couldn’t outsource.” It seems a bold statement, but Joel Alleyne’s tone was matter-of-fact as he said it. The chief information officer and knowledge officer for Borden Ladner Gervais LLP has been investigating the matter in
Read more →Thoughtful discourse on green building design from industry insiders originally published in Award Magazine Events like BP’s Gulf of Mexico oil spill spur people to fret about the environment. Fortunately, encouraging signs exist. Whether people bring their own bags when shopping or choose fuel-efficient vehicles, society seems to
Read more →Originally published in Lawyers Weekly If people who share documents recognize Adobe Acrobat for anything, it’s the ability to preserve the look of their documents across different computers by converting them into portable document format (PDF) files. Since the early 1990s, when Acrobat debuted, the PDF format
Read more →originally published in Lawyers Weekly Magazine Face-to-face mediations won’t go away, but for cost reasons, they sometimes give way to videoconferencing. Some professional mediators are banking on this trend. “It’s a great time to do online mediation,” Petra Maxwell says. The founder and CEO of New York-based
Read more →originally published in Lawyers Weekly. (Special thanks to art editor Tammy Leung for her fun take on the published article.) It’s one of those tools every modern lawyer gets to know well. But do you know Microsoft Word well enough to consider it a “productivity tool” or
Read more →originally published in CBA PracticeLink In the translation of law documents, technology has found a niche, but don’t expect computers to replace translators any time soon. Imagine what it’s like to translate large volumes of other people’s writing from English to French or from French to English.
Read more →While renovating his kitchen, my friend Tom ripped up the counter to find the Toronto Star from June 26, 1953. “There was a story about land prices in Oakville ‘skyrocketing’ to $2,000 an acre,” Tom told me. “I was born on June 19, so I thought I
Read more →originally published in Award Magazine The fall of 1999 brought interior designer Trevor Kruse the opportunity to work on the (then) Ritz Carlton condominium project in Toronto. That project came with a catch, though. “They asked me to set up a company and they would bring the
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