Meadows Law is back, refreshed, and recharged after our strategic retreat in Canmore that also celebrated the firm’s fifth anniversary.

I attended the 2018 Alberta Sustainable Building symposium as an exhibitor on behalf of Meadows Law, the law firm I work for that specializes in, among other areas, environmental law. While the focus of my attendance was educational, what really surprised me in discussions with other participants was that – aside from “who are you?” and “what do you do?” – the question most asked of me was “how can an environmental lawyer actually help me?” So, recognizing that each client’s needs will be a bit different, here are some thoughts about how I think environmental lawyers can generally be useful to the participants in the green building industry.

Mary Marshall and Teresa Meadows recently spoke in Edmonton at the University of Alberta’s 2018 Access and Privacy Conference #UAAlbertaAP18 and posed the following question:

In the era of social media (such as #MeToo, #TimesUp), is it time to revisit third party records disclosure laws in sexual assault cases that haven’t had a refresh since the SCC’s 1999 case, R. v. Mills, [1999] S.C.R. 668?