Jan 7, 2020
As we try to make sense of the senseless, we should derive comfort from the fact that universities are much-needed instruments of cultural and social connection. Like many Canadians, I am preoccupied with Ukrainian International Airlines Flight 752, which exploded and...
Oct 15, 2019
Universities, like other organizations, enter into many contracts. There are leases, insurance policies, benefits policies, partnerships, research agreements, memoranda of understanding, placement agreements, employment agreements, confidentiality agreements,...
Aug 29, 2019
In a world of increasing legal risks and fiduciary obligations, it is difficult to understand why a university would do without one. All universities should have a chief legal officer, or what is commonly known as a general counsel or GC. This is an executive-level...
Sep 5, 2014
Sheryl Sandberg’s book, Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead, has been both embraced and criticized. Around the table, as a newly formed general counsel chapter of the Women’s Law Association of Ontario gathered to meet recently, there was no criticism. The...
Feb 25, 2013
Each time a corporate scandal hits an organization like a tsunami, think about what the in-house lawyers were doing before, when it hit, and after. As our obligations of confidentiality prevent us from telling our side, it will be difficult to build an archive of...
