SOS for Business - International Risk Assessment

Lost In Translation - Practical International Negotiation.

Sanctions, Corruption, Money Laundering

Many oil service sector businesses are grappling with the twin crises of Covid-19 and Low Oil Prices.

In 2017, In-House Counsel Network (shout out to the ICN) invited me to give a talk on adaptive models for delivering legal services.

If necessity is the mother of invention, then Alberta should be a nursery of new ideas in the coming months.

About a month ago, April 5th to be exact, the Globe and Mail ran a piece about Big Law cuts in response to Covid-19.

Just over one month into the twin crises of Covid-19 and Low Oil Prices, Alberta companies are scrambling to control costs.

The twin crises of Covid-19 and Low Oil Prices have pushed clients to preserve liquidity.

What goes up, but never goes down? The answer to the old riddle is "age", but it could just as well be "Big Law's hourly rates".

Attaining partnership is often seen as the key moment in the development of a private practice lawyer's career. A marker for the day they made it, after years of toil.

Alberta is no stranger to renewable power – it started generating hydroelectric power on commercial scale back in 1911.

I have been recently pondering how Canadian politics and energy policy could end up in such a stupid state of affairs – especially on ESG climate change matters.