We offer competition, advertising, CASL and regulatory law compliance and educational services for public and private companies, advertising agencies, communications firms, trade and professional associations, not-for-profit bodies and other organizations.
Our work has included providing compliance services to a wide range of clients in relation to Canadian advertising law, CASL (Canadian anti-spam law), competition/antitrust, contest/sweepstakes, consumer protection laws and sector-specific legislation and regulation (e.g., the regulation of professionals, trade and professional association codes of conduct and rules, etc.).
Competition, Advertising & Regulatory Law
Compliance Services
Our compliance services include compliance audits, compliance programs and policies, compliance guidelines and checklists, seminars and talks for company, agency and association personnel, vetting corporate and trade association activities, legal advice and opinions, board of director and new executive orientation seminars and seeking Competition Bureau written opinions.
Representative Work
Some representative examples of our compliance work includes competition law compliance programs and policies in many industries, compliance talks and seminars for associations and companies, competition law lunch-and-learns for law firms, agencies and other organizations, drafting conduct of meeting, search and seizure and information exchange guidelines for companies and associations, guidelines for joint ventures, strategic alliances and other competitor collaborations, guidelines to conduct surveys and benchmarking involving competitors, a national competition law compliance course for organized real estate (Competition Law and REALTORS: What You Say and Do Matters), subject matter expert for a national online competition law compliance course for Canadian REALTORS, co-author of The Competition Law Guide for Trade Associations in Canada (Carswell) and Lawyer Editor for Practical Law Canada, Competition, including authoring and maintaining many competition, advertising and consumer protection law related compliance resources and subject matter expert and author for the advertising law section of the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College’s course Ethics in Clinical Practice and Advertising.
