I can help you design and implement confidential internal mechanisms to confirm your business is complying with applicable laws and is using best practices to ensure legal compliance and that it is operating ethically and sustainably.
I present seminars to employees, contractors and senior managers on risk management, due diligence and legal responsibilities under specific areas of law such as safety, competition, forest practices code, environmental, product liability and corporate governance and business ethics.
I advise on third-party certification (ISO, CSA, etc.) of manufacturing, environmental and forest practices and associated audit procedures.
I present in-house seminars on personal property security and collections to help protect your financial assets from credit risks.
I can help you develop and apply business ethics and governance policies to your company.
I can help you establish and operate an internal safety audit and safety law compliance system.
I train companies and their employees about safety laws and the due diligence defence. I have presented seminars on these topics to workers at all levels, from presidents to new-hires.
I conduct or supervise defences in criminal and administrative enforcement proceedings in environmental matters and proceedings by stakeholders such as appeals of permits and other administrative decisions by government.
I supervise, negotiate or conduct defences in administrative proceedings regarding fatalities and injuries, including those sustained by contractor’s workers. I advise on how to respond to regulatory investigations and orders. I have supervised the successful defence of charges against a company and two of its managers concerning a fatality caused by a contractor.
I can help you prepare drug and alcohol policies, including ones which require drug and alcohol testing Policy using the experience I gained in advising on, drafting and helping to implement (and supervised the successful defence of a including national grievance of the policy) a policy forbidding drug/alcohol use and implementing drug/alcohol testing.
I advise on environmental practices, due diligence, obligations, compliance, soil monitoring and remediation projects at industrial sites.
I can establish and operate an internal environmental audit and environmental law compliance system.
I train companies and their employees about environmental laws and the due diligence defence. I have presented over 50 environmental law seminars to workers at all levels and to contractors and their workers.
I negotiate, advise upon and draft agreements for the procurement and/or sale, licensing and/or leasing of technology, machinery, real estate, equipment, intellectual property, joint venture and partnership agreements and credit arrangements and securing payment.
I draft and help implement safety and employment, human rights and harassment policies, can help you assess whether your policies are working and can help you respond to safety and/or employment law problems.
I advise on third-party certification (ISO, CSA, etc.) of manufacturing, environmental and forest practices and associated audit procedures
For sales and marketing, I can help you develop price programs, review advertisements and marketing material. I practice competition law for manufacturers and for distributors and can help keep you in compliance with those laws and help you understand how those laws apply to your procurement operations, your pricing programs, your marketing and advertising programs and your sales and distribution operations.
I can help you interpret statutes, advise you about assessing and avoiding potential liability, can advise you on how to control liability and legal costs and risks if you are dealing with an event for which you may have some liability to government, other companies or stakeholders.
I deal with commercial transactions for the purchase/sale of components or entire businesses, mills, licences/permits.
I can help you create internal corporate compliance programs to assist your company or firm in remaining on the right side of the law, and I can help you obtain approval from the Competition Bureau for acquisitions, divestitures and mergers.
I conduct in-house seminars, prepare guidelines to help employees understand how to best comply with competition laws, advise on the application of competition laws to business situations, including price programs and advertising and marketing programs.
I can conduct confidential internal assessments of a company’s compliance with competition laws.
I help respond to demands, inquiries and requests from the Competition Bureau, liaise and, if needed, negotiate with the Bureau, concerning these items.
I can help you supervise and help you select competition law specialists and work with them to ensure the good returns for your spending on legal costs.
My 13 years as in-house counsel for Weyerhaeuser and my work as a contract in-house lawyer to forest companies and sellers of lumber and building materials have involved me in all legal aspects of forestry/silviculture/harvesting operations in BC, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Ontario and New Brunswick. I address legal matters for lumber, pulp and paper sales and sales/distribution operations in all provinces and internationally.
I handle or assist clients in ensuring they remain in compliance with safety, forest practices and environmental laws. I help clients avoid, or if they can’t avoid it, respond to prosecutions, determinations and other enforcement actions by government concerning safety, stumpage rates determinations, trespasses, forest practices, environmental aspects of forest and silviculture practices and First Nations matters. I can help defend you if informal solutions won’t work and I can help you select, supervise and instruct legal specialists and help you understand their advice.
I practice Canadian anti-trust/competition law in forestry law cases and can help you remain onside of those laws and help you understand their application to your operations.
I advise on bankruptcies, anti-dumping and regulatory/administrative proceedings in forestry cases.
I draft and help implement safety, forest practices and employment policies and can help you assess whether your policies are working.
I deal with commercial transactions for the purchase/sale of mills, licences/permits and other tenures, logging and/or silviculture operations.
I advise on privacy law obligations and rights and I draft, implement and audit the performance of corporate and workplace privacy policies.
I handle privacy law matters in both private and government settings.
I help companies who deal with government to protect their information from public disclosure under Freedom of Information Laws. I advise governments on their obligations under FOI laws and help them respond to FOI requests.
I deal with requests from and investigations initiated by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner and I negotiate resolution of such claims.
I deal with individual discipline/termination cases, draft and advise on implementing employment procedures and policies for discipline, termination of employment, safety, ethics and governance and employees’ compliance with specific areas of laws such as environmental, forest practices, competition, human rights and harassment.
I work in both union and non-union settings in industrial, professional, sales/marketing and manufacturing workplaces.
I draft and help implement anti-impairment policies which include drug and alcohol testing.
I help select and supervise legal specialists to litigate claims in court and handle grievances under collective agreements. Either with the support of a specialist or on my own, I negotiate resolution of severance claims and investigate, mediate and resolve human rights and harassment claims.