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what the intellectual property (IP) and information technology (IT)
lawyers were to the dot-com era. In the dotcom era, IP and IT types
evolved from being an afterthought on transaction teams to being
integral to their proper functioning.]]></description><link>http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/story.html?id=1726989</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/1728197.bin" /></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1704928</guid><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:49:10 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[What does this man have to do with Ontario's Superior Court?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Whether Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez really means no, when he says no, is at the heart of a US$102-million lawsuit by investors of Crystallex International Corp., a gold-mining company.]]></description><link>http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/story.html?id=1704928</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/1704927.bin" /></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1680693</guid><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:46:21 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Hockey fight goes into overtime]]></title><description><![CDATA[Much clucking in the press about Canada getting another hockey team courtesy of Jim Balsillie's attempt to buy the bankrupt Phoenix Coyotes from current majority owner Jerry Moyes and move them to Hamilton.]]></description><link>http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/story.html?id=1680693</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/1689404.bin" /></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1664352</guid><pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 15:32:59 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[General Counsel Awards: Top Dealmaker]]></title><description><![CDATA[Before joining Agrium Inc. in 1999, Leslie O'Donoghue was a partner at Blakes, Cassels and Graydon. In the past 10 years, she has become one of the country's top deal-makers, as evidenced by her recent promotion to her new job as Agrium's chief legal officer.]]></description><link>http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/story.html?id=1664352</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/1658537.bin" /></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1656755</guid><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 14:36:24 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA['I'd like to thank the Academy...']]></title><description><![CDATA[What an Oscar perf ormance! Leslie O'Donoghue, that scrappy,
firebrand general counsel at Agrium Inc., wowed the 500-lawyer crowd
with a straight-from-the-heart (pocketbook?) speech after taking top
honours in the dealmaking category at Monday's Canadian General
Counsel Awards, sponsored by National Post and ZSA Legal
Recruitment.]]></description><link>http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/story.html?id=1656755</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/1658537.bin" /></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1654929</guid><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 16:10:22 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[2009 Canadian General Counsel Awards]]></title><description><![CDATA[David Miller of Rogers Communications received the Lifetime Achievement Award at this year's installment of the Canadian General Counsel Awards]]></description><link>http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/legalpost/archive/2009/06/02/general-counsel-awards-2009-edition.aspx</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/1654882.bin" /></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1633892</guid><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 15:46:38 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[McCarthys gains key litigator]]></title><description><![CDATA[On the move. A big win for McCarthy Tetrault on the hiring
front. The firm has pried noted litigator and competition lawyer
Neil Finkelstein from the clutches of Blake, Cassels & Graydon. He
will join his new firm as a partner on June 1. Mr. Finkelstein, who
has also spent a short time at Davies Ward & Phillips and Vineberg,
declined to comment on the move, because he's a partner at Blakes
until the end of the month.]]></description><link>http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/story.html?id=1633892</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/1635516.bin" /></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1610614</guid><pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 11:16:00 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Insolvency lawyers Alberta's new hot commodity]]></title><description><![CDATA[Once viewed as nearing extinction, insolvency and restructuring lawyers are now a hot commodity in Canada's energy capital and that's prompting seat shuffles as firms look to build insolvency bench strength.]]></description><link>http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/story.html?id=1610614</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/1612796.bin" /></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1590420</guid><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 14:37:12 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Lawyers must change with times]]></title><description><![CDATA[The legal industry is facing unprecedented change, and law firms that don't modify the way they run their businesses face extinction.]]></description><link>http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/story.html?id=1590420</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/1592053.bin" /></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1566892</guid><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 17:30:04 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[General Counsel finalists named]]></title><description><![CDATA[David P. Miller, counsel to Rogers Communications, takes this year's Lifetime Achievement award as finalists are announced for the Canadian General Counsel Awards.]]></description><link>http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/story.html?id=1566892</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/1569095.bin" /></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1544780</guid><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:43:59 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Canadian firms in U.S. avoiding big layoff hits]]></title><description><![CDATA[More than 22,000 legal jobs have been lost in the United States in the past 12 months. None of the cuts, however, have fallen upon the New York offices of Canadian firms.]]></description><link>http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/story.html?id=1544780</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/1545775.bin" /></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1520376</guid><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 15:18:28 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[P3 deals still under scrutiny]]></title><description><![CDATA[As proponents favouring public-private partnerships (P3s) to repair and build infrastructure in Canada grow in both numbers and enthusiasm, so do detractors.]]></description><link>http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/story.html?id=1520376</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/1522599.bin" /></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1496909</guid><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 17:12:38 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Debt and equity keep the deals churning]]></title><description><![CDATA[It's a good thing that banks were active in the market last quarter issuing preferred shares. Otherwise, who knows what lawyers and investment banks would have been doing.]]></description><link>http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/story.html?id=1496909</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/1499255.bin" /></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1477652</guid><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 14:46:06 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Finding the balance]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Law Society of Upper Canada has found that women have been leaving private practice in droves. Among the challenges they faced were childbirth and shouldering a disproportionate share of family responsibilities.]]></description><link>http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/story.html?id=1477652</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/1477487.bin" /></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1467757</guid><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 16:18:11 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Green age dawns at Stikeman]]></title><description><![CDATA[Stikeman Elliott LLP has new bragging rights today, becoming the first national law firm in Canada to be certified "carbon neutral."]]></description><link>http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/story.html?id=1467757</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/1469612.bin" /></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1451976</guid><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 14:35:16 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Canada's biotech industry in 'crisis']]></title><description><![CDATA[Big pharma is consolidating at a dizzying pace and that concerns Kevin Giese, chief esxecutive of BioMS Medical.]]></description><link>http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/story.html?id=1451976</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/1449806.bin" /></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1424312</guid><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 22:20:41 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Suncor offer tests rules on competition]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Competition Bureau was handed a doozy with the Suncor
Energy Inc. and Petro-Canada merger (takeover?) -- the first test of
controversial amendments to the Competition Act.]]></description><link>http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/story.html?id=1424312</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/1419779.bin" /></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">1406550</guid><pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 21:02:44 GMT</pubDate><title><![CDATA[Devil in details of new merger review process]]></title><description><![CDATA[Is the federal government's move to introduce a U. S.-style,
two-track merger review process the Devil incarnate that will drive
up the cost of mergers and acquisitions or simply a better way of
conducting competition reviews that brings Canada in line with other
countries and protects consumers?]]></description><link>http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/story.html?id=1406550</link><enclosure type="image/jpeg" url="http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/1406559.bin" /></item></channel></rss>
