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27 May 2014, 9:47 am
Prominent Calgary lawyer Kristine Robidoux, best known for her work defending corporate clients on bribery charges, has been suspended by the Law Society of Alberta and resigned from Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP, in the wake of being found to have breached client confidentiality in 2008.Robidoux, who defended Nikko Resources and Griffiths Energy on bribery charges, was suspended for four months Monday by an LSA panel after she admitted she provided then-National Post columnist Don Martin… [read post]
23 May 2014, 10:00 am
The chapter provides the backstory, including oral narratives and original archival research, for the cases on mandatory maternity leave, LaFleur v. [read post]
22 May 2014, 4:00 am
Each Thursday we present a significant excerpt, usually from a recently published book or journal article. [read post]
23 Apr 2014, 10:02 am
“I think that class counsel are in the best position to make that assessment [on the feasibility of compensating class members] and their recommendation should be given serious weight by the judge,” he says.Gowling LaFleur Henderson LLP partner Scott Kugler said in a recent Canadian Lawyer article that courts are becoming increasingly insistent that settlement proceeds are actually paid to class members. [read post]
11 Apr 2014, 8:57 am
LaFleur's Testimony before the Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee - "Keeping the Lights on – Are We Doing Enough to Ensure the Reliability and Security of the U.S. [read post]
11 Apr 2014, 8:48 am
LaFleur's Testimony before the Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee - "Keeping the Lights on – Are We Doing Enough to Ensure the Reliability and Security of the U.S. [read post]
10 Apr 2014, 6:50 pm
The commission's chairwoman Cheryl LaFleur told a congressional hearing on Thursday that it was taking steps so it would not make the same mistake it did following the Silicon Valley attack. [read post]
27 Mar 2014, 12:21 pm
That argument proved unconvincing, as the ruling was upheld by the province’s appeal court and today by the SCC.Matthew Estabrooks, who practises administrative law at Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP, represented the Canadian Civil Liberties Association before the court. [read post]
24 Mar 2014, 11:16 am
., the Illinois Petroleum Council and CenterPoint Properties, plus Chicago Transportation Commissioner Rebekah Scheinfeld, Illinois Tollway Executive Director Kristi Lafleur, IDOT Secretary Ann Schneider and Will County Executive Larry Walsh. [read post]
12 Feb 2014, 9:00 am
LexUM in particular could transform the Canadian market by licensing or acquiring secondary content from smaller commercial legal publishers such as Wilson & LaFleur, Emond Montgomery and/or Irwin Law, and mounting the secondary content on LexUM with direct links to the primary data available through CANLII. [read post]
5 Feb 2014, 12:05 pm
As Legal Feeds reported on Monday, Heenan Blaikie’s senior partners have been discussing the future of the firm, amid financial woes said to stem from the tough economy and the completion of several major files.There have been a long string of departures in recent months, but these appear to have accelerated in the past week and sources today said a partnership vote on the firm’s future will come as early as tonight.Veteran business lawyer Ralph Lean moved to Gowling Lafleur… [read post]
3 Feb 2014, 12:12 pm
They included co-managing partner Dan Palayew, who’s leaving for Borden Ladner Gervais LLP.They follow after others who have departed recently, including Tim Lawson, a member of the firm’s executive committee who joined McCarthy Tétrault LLP as a partner last week, and Michael Ledgett, who was national co-chairman of the infrastructure and public-private partnership group.Another major departure was announced today when Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP confirmed Ralph E. [read post]
9 Jan 2014, 12:15 pm
On Monday, the Canadian Intellectual Property Office entered into a global framework that will significantly reduce wait times for international patent approvals.The new Global Patent Prosecution Highway improves on the individual PPH agreements of the past — replacing numerous bilateral agreements with a single, harmonized multilateral agreement.Sean Alexander is a patent agent in the Vancouver office of Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP. [read post]
13 Nov 2013, 10:53 am
“We thought it would be a good time to launch the campaign because the question of term limits is being decided by the Supreme Court of Canada itself,” says Chris Schafer, the foundation’s executive director.Schafer practised constitutional and regulatory law at Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP before joining the foundation in 2010.The campaign is largely driven by the concern that Supreme Court of Canada judges remain in their posts long after the prime minister who chose… [read post]
28 Oct 2013, 9:01 pm
(This latter point was suggested by LaFleur, but constitutional due process rights had no impact on private employers.) [read post]
28 Oct 2013, 8:10 am
(left to right) Luc Deshaies, partner, Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP and president of the Bar of Montreal; Paul Rand, senior counsel, RBC, Paula Rietta, vice president legal, Ford Credit Canada; Helen Fotinos, general counsel, St. [read post]
4 Oct 2013, 7:18 am
Prior to her appointment, she was a partner in the Toronto office of Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP where her main areas of practice were environmental law, civil litigation, and commercial litigation. [read post]
11 Sep 2013, 9:28 am
Scott Jolliffe, chairman and CEO of Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP in Toronto, participated in a discussion at Above The Law’s Toronto reception on The Future of Biglaw in Canada and the United States.MacEwen said lawyers are finally accepting that the legal market is no longer growing at the rate it used to and finally starting to think about how to survive in the current “market-share battle. [read post]
22 Jul 2013, 9:53 am
”Big Law is helpful to give partners credibility and contacts at the early stages of their careers, but can become too rigid and expensive, he adds.Other senior departures from McCarthys’ Vancouver office this year include Paul Armitage, a former partner in McCarthys’ technology group and life sciences group, who moved in February to Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP’s intellectual property group in Vancouver.The previous month, Joseph Garcia, formerly leader of… [read post]
4 Jun 2013, 2:51 pm
LaFleur II [read post]
