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A Personal Tribute to a Polar Bear — A Memorial

A memorial to Inukshuk, a polar bear who touched my heart and changed my life. His spirit lives on in his progeny and the memories of those who will love him always.

2025 Legal Conference Speaking Engagements

Fall is the traditional season for legal conferences and speaking engagements in North American, and 2025 is no exception.

Succession — It’s Not How You Start; It’s How You Finish

Succession is a critical component of business strategy that left undone can lead to unfortunate outcomes. Act now, because it’s not how you start; it’s how you finish.

AI Steals Trust When Enabled

The legal services sector is predicated on trust. Willfully enabling AI to hone its learning based on who and what you are is theft of the best of what makes you “you”.

Why Law Firms Keep Failing at Succession Planning and How to do it Right — Canadian Lawyer

Succession planning in law firms is most often reactive with many being better at planning for growth than for exits.

Fearless — A Required State of Being

The global legal services market needs optimistic contrarians: strong people who think fast and clearly, and whose actions are decisive and fearless.

Big Four Fear is Unfounded

Fearmongering and fretting about impacts of the Big Four on the legal services sector are the equivalent of tilting at windmills and just as pointless.

Strategic Growth in the Legal Services Market — Expansion or Contraction?

Strategic and profitable growth through either expansion or contraction is crucial to securing and leveraging your future success and solvency in the legal services market. Part Two of a two-part series on Strategic Growth in the Legal Services Market and the foundation for the second half of my September 2024 keynote address to the Alberta Civil Trial Lawyers Association’s Masterclass in Calgary.

Strategic Growth in the Legal Services Market — What’s Next? How Do We Cope?

“Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” – Ferris Bueller, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. Part One of a two-part series on Strategic Growth in the Legal Services Market and the foundation for the first half of my September 2024 keynote address to the Alberta Civil Trial Lawyers Association’s Masterclass in Calgary.

Inuksuit and Invention

2024 was a year of inuksuit and invention. In 2025, I expect acceleration of inuksuk-like signals across global legal markets that present as thoughts, events, and repercussions all of which spark inventive action.

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