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The Business of Law

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Credits
Professionalism (Ethics, etc.): 0.75
45 minutes
Substantive: 0.0
5 minutes
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: 0.25
15 minutes
Published
2019
Presenter(s)
Neha Chugh
Jan Kaminski
Kimberley Pegg
Jean Richer
Source
County of Carleton Law Association (CCLA)
Provider
CPDOnline.ca
Language
English
Length
65 minutes
Price
$279.00 plus tax
31st Annual Criminal Law Conference 2019
Includes Handouts

This panel composed of three successful defence lawyers who run their own businesses will discuss how to run a law practice. Panelists will discuss the basics of running a practice from a business perspective and the lessons they’ve learned from doing so. They will discuss marketing, following the Law Society’s and Legal Aid Ontario’s rules and requirements, managing staff, diversity issues in the workplace, mentorship, and work-life balance. Our fourth panelist will provide information about business structures and succession planning. Professionalism and EDI topics include:

  • 3.1 Marketing legal services in accordance with professional obligations (e.g., advertising nature of practice, advertising fees)
  • 3.2 Understanding practice arrangements, including  partnerships, multi-discipline practices or partnerships, limited liability partnerships, affiliations, inter-provincial law firms, professional corporations
  • 3.5 Maintaining reminder or tickler systems
  • 3.6 Using effective time management systems
  • 3.7 Maintaining proper books and records
  • 3.8 Implementing systems for file organization, retention, and disposal
  • 3.9 Meeting financial obligations to third parties
  • 3.10 Managing undertakings
  • 3.11 Training, supervising and delegating to staff
  • 3.13 Succession planning
  • 3.16 Understanding the business of law, including financial considerations, client development and strategic planning
  • 3.17 Technology in a law or legal services practice, including considerations related to security of information, productivity and efficiency
  • 3.18 Complying with Legal Aid Ontario provisions and procedures
  • 5.3 Best practices for career and profile management as a legal professional
  • 5.4 Mentoring best practices for lawyers and paralegals
  • 5.5 Work/life balance and wellness principles for lawyers and paralegals
  • 6.1 Value of diversity and inclusion
  • 6.5 Special responsibilities of lawyers and paralegals to respect the human rights laws in force in Ontario
  • 6.6 How to prevent and address discrimination and harassment
  • 6.7 Best practices for workplace diversity and inclusion

Presenters

Neha Chugh

Neha Chugh graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology, Social Development Studies and Social Work from the University of Waterloo, and completed a Master’s degree in Planning from the University of Guelph. Her passion for community development and social policy led her to Osgoode Hall Law School where she focused on criminal law, family law, and children and the law. Neha completed her articles with senior criminal defence counsel in downtown Toronto, and was called to the Bar in 2011. Her practice started in Eastern Ontario with a distinct focus on driving offences – Impaired Driving, Over 80, Refuse Breath Sample, and Dangerous Driving cases. Since then she has expanded her practice to cover all areas of Criminal Law.

Jan Kaminski

Jan is currently President of Colonnade Investments, a private equity investment company based in Ottawa. Colonnade’s four investments platforms include real estate, agriculture, and environmental. His portfolio board and management positions include Market Maker Agriculture and Bonnefield. Prior to Colonnade, Jan was the President and CEO of Ionalytics Corporation, a venture-backed start-up which built analytical instruments used to accelerate the drug discovery and development process. He guided Ionalytics’ transformation from a research organization to a product company and led it through an acquisition by ThermoFisher. Jan’s previous venture-backed experience was with FastLane Technologies, a developer of enterprise performance management software. As President and CEO, Jan built a global sales and support organization which grew to over 1,000 enterprise customers. He led FastLane through a successful sale and integration with Quest Software, now Dell Software. Jan is currently on the Foundation Board of St. Patrick’s Home, a not-for-profit long-term care facility in Ottawa. He has served as an independent member on the Board of Directors of DNA Genotek which was acquired by OraSure Tecgnologies in 2012, Whitehill Technologies which was acquired by Skywire Software in 2007 and GOT Corporation until it was acquired by Protus in 2008. He has held advisory and board positions in a number of other corporations and not-for-profit organizations including the Commercialization Committee of the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute. Jan Kaminski holds an MBA from the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto and a BSc in Mechanical Engineering from Queen’s University.

Kimberley Pegg

Kimberley commenced her law practice in 1982 following her graduation from University of Ottawa Law School. She has extensive trial experience in criminal defence and representation of parents in Children’s Aid Proceedings. In criminal defence, Kimberley has defended numerous individuals charged with offences related to drugs, assault and sexual assault, domestic violence, fraud, property and dangerous and impaired driving. She has also defended people charged with very serious crimes such as robbery and homicide. In the child protection practice, Kimberley has represented many parties seeking the best outcome for children. Typically, this has meant getting children back to their parents after removal from their home by the Children’s Aid Society. Kimberley has appeared at all levels of the Ontario Courts including appeals to the Divisional Court and the Ontario Court of Appeal.

Jean Richer