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Discussion of the SCC’s Recent Interpretation & Expansion of Aboriginal Title Over the past few months, the Supreme Court of Canada issued landmark decisions impacting Aboriginal title.  These decisions impact the various constitutional obligations of both federal and provincial governments.  Each decision also discusses &m

No Competition Act Violation Found in Oil-Gas Venture Well, it is time to indulge discussion of another area of practice interest:  commercial business transactions.  Let us start with the oil and gas industry, industries which are certainly continuing to hold the public’s attention in an era punctuated by both a drive tow

I do not believe that Mel Brooks, in his first feature film, Twelve Chairs, originally coined the phrase, “[h]ope for the best, expect the worst.”  As a self-professed political junkie, and as the former co-lead regional elections counsel for the Obama-Biden Campaign (2008, 2012) throughout Central Florida, I feel as if (1) the quo

Well, it appears that I have returned to my old habits.  In Florida, I typically spent at least one weekend day, normally both, working on cases and grading of student papers.    Today, I find myself working.  At least, there is some sense of familiarity to this practice, one that began as far back as 1999. Today, I find myself

No, it is hardly the most glamorous topic.  Indeed, not many lawyers would actually recognize the challenges involved in the accurate, intensive, scrutiny of preexisting and newly-drafted agreements.  I did not begin reviewing such documents — normally, in a commercial or Internet-based context — until 2005.  Before then,