This program contains 1.5 hours of Professionalism content and 1.5 hours of
Substantive content.
Tuesday, January 31st, 2023 at the Residence Inn by Marriott
8:30 a.m. Breakfast
9:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Conference (with two 15 minute breaks)
Speakers:
Gordon Lee, Seneca College, Chair - Program Advisory Committee, Public Safety
Megan Keenberg, Partner - Van Kralingen & Keenberg LLP
Danilo Popadic, Aviva Trial Lawyers
David Canton, Harrison Pensa LLP
Erika Webb, Legal Counsel, Intact Insurance
Cynthia Simpson, Librarian - Middlesex Law Association
Co-chairs:
Grace Smith, Solicitor I, City of London & MLA Committee Lead, In-house Practice Area
Erika Webb, Legal Counsel, Intact Insurance
Sandra Drozd, Senior Counsel - Litigation, Canada Life
Our In-house conference offers a full agenda with an incredible group of experts. The morning will include:
- New legislation on electronic monitoring of employees
- Best practices for Caselines/tendering evidence in remote hearings/trials
- Use of arbitration for civil case management/dispute resolutions
- Cyberattacks and Protection of Data
- Research resources - refresher on remote use of MLA law resources
*Should you wish to discuss a reduced rate due to an inability to pay our set fee, please contact Tracy Fawdry directly at tracy@middlaw.on.ca.
Our Speakers:
Gordon Lee has held a variety of management and technical positions in high-tech, working for companies such as IBM and Nortel. He specialized in the adoption of new technologies and deployment into growth industries. After a 25 year professional career, Gordon entered academia and taught post-secondary courses at UOIT and Seneca. His field of expertise is cybercrime, and students have included police forces, law enforcement, and business professionals, in North America and abroad. Gordon has a Bachelors in Engineering and MBA from the University of Toronto and a PhD in Education.
David Canton is a business lawyer and trademark agent with a practice at Harrison Pensa focusing on technology issues and technology companies. David advises on information technology and e-business matters such as software licenses, outsourcing agreements, consulting agreements, intellectual property, technology transfer, privacy, social media law, anti-spam law, internet, web site and e-business issues - both for those creating and for those using technology. David also leads the Technology and Privacy Law Group. David is the co-author of Legal Landmines in e-Commerce, McGraw-Hill, 2002, blogs at hptechlaw.com and is a regular contributor to the Slaw.ca blog.
David was included in The Lawyer’s Weekly list of 24 of “Canada’s top legal social media influencers" and has been included in the Who's Who Legal Top IT Lawyers (2014) and the Who’s Who Top Technology, Media, and Telecommunications Lawyers (2016, 2017).
Bachelor of Laws, Computer Science Major, University of Western Ontario
Megan Keenberg: After a decade on Bay Street, in 2017 Megan Keenberg co-founded Van Kralingen & Keenberg LLP – a boutique commercial litigation and employment law firm. She is a Certified Specialist in Civil Litigation and practices commercial litigation. Megan holds a Master of Laws from Osgoode specializing in Dispute Resolution. She has also completed the Toronto Commercial Arbitration Society’s prestigious Gold Standard Course on commercial arbitration and has returned as Principal Faculty teaching this course. Originally a member of the inaugural NextGen Roster, Megan has recently been promoted to the Main Roster at Arbitration Place. She has been designated as a Qualified Mediator and a Qualified Arbitrator and maintains a mediation and arbitration practice focused broadly on business disputes arising from a wide variety of sectors. Megan also offers case management arbitration designed to promote procedural efficiency for cases proceeding before the courts.
Megan is an active member of The Advocates’ Society, having served as a Practice Group Leader for the Arbitration and Mediation Advocacy group, and currently serving on the 10+ Standing Committee. She is also an active member of the Ontario Bar Association having served concurrent terms on the Executive Boards of the ADR Section (including as Chair 2019-2020) and the Civil Litigation Section since 2017. Megan is a frequent speaker at seminars geared towards litigators, ADR practitioners and law firm management.
Danilo Popadic completed his JD and Diplôme de Français Juridique at the University of Western Ontario in 2013 and was called to the Bar in 2014. After completing his articling with the City of London, he stayed at City Hall, practicing civil litigation, expropriation, construction litigation, and provincial offences prosecution. In June 2022, he moved to Aviva Trial Lawyers where he practices in civil litigation and insurance defence. Outside of law, Danilo keeps busy skiing, gardening, and being an enthusiastic (though not particularly gifted) tennis player.
Erika Webb is in-house counsel for Intact Insurance. She joined Intact Insurance in 2015, and over the last 8 years has been practicing in various areas of insurance defence litigation, including claims related to personal injury, property loss and subrogated claims. Outside of work, she enjoys being active with her family, cooking and gardening.
Cynthia Simpson graduated from Western University with her Master of Library and Information Science degree in 1989 and began her career at the Middlesex Law Association that fall. She has served as both the Treasurer and Chair of the Ontario Courthouse Libraries Association and has participated in the organization’s sub-committees. In the late 1990’s, Cynthia was a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada’s Working Group on Long-Term Delivery of County and District Library Services, which developed the foundation for LibraryCo, now LiRN. She was an instructor for Mohawk College’s Law Libraries and Legal Research course for two sessions in 2014 and 2015. Nationally, Cynthia served two terms as the Treasurer of the Canadian Association of Law Libraries, and both chaired the London 2001 conference planning committee and served on committees for the 2010 and 2023 conferences. She has also assisted with several other CALL/ACBD sub-committees over the years.
If you have any questions about this program, please email Tracy Fawdry, Executive Director of the Middlesex Law Association at cle@middlaw.on.ca.
Terms & Conditions: By registering for this program, I acknowledge that my email address may be used to invite me to this Zoom CPD and will be facilitated by the Middlesex Law Association. We will take reasonable steps to ensure the security of the CPD program on Zoom (see Zoom’s terms & conditions.)
Refund Policy: The Middlesex Law Association will refund the registration fee + HST if cancellation is received TWO business days before the CPD program.
Registration: Register online then payment can be made online, via e-transfer, or by cheque. If paying by e-transfer, please e-transfer the total amount above to library@middlaw.on.ca using the security code: CPD2023InHouseCONF (case sensitive). If you have trouble with the e-transfer, please email us.
Accessibility: If you have any accessibility requirements, please let us know and we will accommodate you.
This organization has been approved as an Accredited Provider of Professionalism Content by the Law Society of Ontario.
