¶ Published Friday, November 28th at %I:%M %p ∞ In Environment, Legal Issues, Miscellaneous ∞ No Comments »
Jordan Furlong at Law 21 has a great post on decoupling price from cost in legal services. His argument: law firms have never been motivated to streamline the cost of their production because of a long tradition of simply passing costs on to the client. True enough, for decades that mentality has fueled the relentless [...]
¶ Published Thursday, November 27th at %I:%M %p ∞ In Announcements, Design & Features, Environment, Miscellaneous ∞ No Comments »
A recent blog post by Seth Godin outlined ways to do business online (post: here).
In summary he says, “connect the disconnected to each other and you create value.”
Connect advertisers to people who want to be advertised to.
Connect job hunters with jobs.
Connect information seekers with information.
Connect teams to each other.
Connect those seeking similar.
Connect to partners and those [...]
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For Québec
The proposed Regulation respecting the mandatory declaration of water withdrawals requires institutions not supplied by water supply works, as well as industries and businesses to send to the Ministry of Sustainable Development, Environment and Parks the following information:
the number of withdrawal sites used and their location,
the intended use of the withdrawals, and
whether or not [...]
¶ Published Tuesday, November 25th at %I:%M %p ∞ In Environment, Legal Issues ∞ No Comments »
In St. Lawrence Cement Inc. v. Barrette, neighbours of a cement factory filed a class-action lawsuit against the company alleging that the factory’s activities caused neighbourhood disturbances that were excessive.
The Supreme Court of Canada ruled that Québec has two regimes of civil liability under s.976 of the Québec Civil Code:
The ordinary rules of civil liability, [...]
¶ Published Friday, November 21st at %I:%M %p ∞ In Environment, Legal Issues ∞ No Comments »
Industrial polluters — even those that comply with emissions regulations — can be found liable and forced to pay significant damages if their activities are found to be a nuisance to nearby residents.
This week, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that St. Lawrence Cement (SLC), a subsidiary of the world’s second-biggest cement maker Holcim Ltd., [...]
¶ Published Thursday, November 20th at %I:%M %p ∞ In Design & Features, Legal Issues, Miscellaneous ∞ No Comments »
The case for plain language is compelling. Plain language advocates consider legalese to be outmoded and undemocratic People are entitled to understand the laws that bind them and detail their rights and obligations.
To be legible, legal writing must be logically organized as well as concise. The Napoleonic Code, introduced more than two centuries ago, was [...]
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On December 2, I will be giving a 10 minute presentation on the new Nimonik and more generally, on using web 2.0 in traditional industrial companies. The talk will take place at Station-C on St. Laurent, details here.
The venue for the talk is the monthly Tech Start-Up event, where Montréal entrepreneurs, investors and technology people [...]
¶ Published Monday, November 17th at %I:%M %p ∞ In Design & Features, Legal Issues ∞ No Comments »
UK writer and consultant, Richard Susskind, considered by many to be the world’s pre-eminent legal futurist, is coming out with a new book, The End of Lawyers?, in December. It’s a sequel to his 1996 best-seller, The Future of Law, in which Susskind describes presciently how IT would radically change the practice of law and [...]
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