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On October 3 Advocates will welcome Felicia R. Lozon as an associate lawyer.
Felicia joins us after practicing in Ottawa with a large national firm. Felicia completed law school in 2020 after graduating with a mechanical engineering degree and working for a year in that field at 3M in London.
We are excited by the synergies
The firm congratulates partners Kyle MacLean and Jim LeBer upon being recognized through the annual peer review survey process of Best Lawyers Canada. Kyle has been recognized by lawyers practicing Construction litigation, through Best Lawyers’ peer survey process, the results of which were released this month. We know how our client’s feel about Kyle’s skill
A recent decision by Justice Steel in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice has brought some much-needed clarity for road building contractors seeking to uphold (or overturn) an interim-binding decision of a referee under MTO’s dispute resolution procedures.
The team at Advocates LLP is excited to be moving to a new purpose-built office space in London’s historic Selby Building, on “Richmond Row” a few blocks north of our current location.
The Selby Building was constructed in 1930 as a commercial / industrial building for the Selby Shoe company of Portsmouth Ohio. In 1939
Advocates LLP is proud to announce that associate lawyer Eric Grigg has joined the firm as a partner.
Eric joined the firm just over four years ago, as an associate. Since that time he has proven himself to be an outstanding advocate, appearing on our client’s matters in motions court, at arbitration, in
Executive Alert: Advocates LLP argues that Notice of Delay given now and tied to Ontario’s March 17 declaration of a State of Emergency and related MOH social distancing directives – may allow you access to a compensable delay, rather than merely an excusable delay.
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The firm is excited to announce that Enje Daniels has joined our team as an associate. Enje comes to the firm having received her law degree from Western’s Law School in June 2018. She also has a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the DeGroote School of Business at McMaster. Having proven herself in the
One of my mentors used to say to me that to be a good lawyer
you needed to learn to skate backwards. The value of this metaphor is evident
from the Divisional Court’s decision in Basegmez[i].
In Basegmez: 3
partners/shareholders invested in an hotel and condo project; 1 of them was
responsible for day to day management;
the other
Minority
shareholders in a closely held private company are not gifted with the same
powers of foresight that Steven Spielberg granted John Anderton (a.k.a Tom
Cruise) and his ‘Pre-Crime’ unit in the 2002 seminal, futuristic crime-drama ‘Minority
Report’. Set in the year 2054, the Pre-Crime unit relied upon mutated humans
called “Precogs” who had an ability to visualize the future.
Everything, as it turns out. Wilfred v. Dare is a cautionary tale of the consequences of forgetting that the OBCA does not provide for a ‘no fault’ corporate divorce. Does your shareholder agreement provide otherwise? You might want to check.