With the integration of the Sedona Canada Principles into the rules governing discovery, courts are becoming more willing to order parties to produce their hard drives and laptops. As email and social networking Web sites continue to replace verbal communication, electronic discovery can unearth significant paper trails. For the full posts from the Canadian Underwriter [...]

  The legality of file sharing has been hotly debated in Canada for many years, and the issue boiled over again recently with the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA) trading pot shots in the press with copyright luminaries like Michael Geist and Howard Knopf  over both the legality of the practice and its effect on the recording [...]

With the collapse and near collapse of many financial institutions globally, Canadians are undoubtedly left wondering why it is that our financial institutions (FIs) have managed to weather the storm better than many US and European institutions. The answer is at least in part due to the relatively conservative regulatory regime under which our banking [...]

Due to growing interest and demand from our neighbors North of the border (not least of which due to the scores of Canadian lawyers employed on multiple U.S. corporate bankruptcies ) we have established a job/info listserv for Canada.   You can subscribe to the our Canada listserv by clicking here.  You can see all our listserv by clicking here. [...]

  Like their U.S. counterparts, insolvency and restructuring lawyers at Canada’s largest firms have been working around the clock since the winter to keep up with the avalanche of major bankruptcy filings to hit Canadian courts. At least a dozen large Canadian bankruptcies have been filed so far this year under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement [...]