Siskinds: Business Essentials

In this episode, Chris talks with Katherine Serniwka, a lawyer in Siskinds’ Professional Practice group whose practice involves helping regulated professionals manage their practices. They discuss how the public health pandemic has affected medical professionals in particular and what longer-term changes we may see as a result.

In this episode, Chris and corporate lawyer Vivian Iron talk about how to continue operating your business during social distancing, the opportunities for “serial entrepreneurs”, and why we might be seeing more “earn out” provisions (at least for a while).

In this episode, Chris talks with Elena Ashford from Siskinds’ Immigration group about her practice, temporary foreign workers, labour market assessments, and how the government’s processing times have somehow managed to get even slower. Also, Chris proposes a great idea for using foreign workers remotely that turns out to be illegal if you tried it in real life.

In episode three, Chris and Matthew Wilson from Siskinds’ Real Estate group sit down to talk about the state of today’s real estate market and what options exist to help commercial landlords and tenants through the current pandemic. They also explore what impact remote-work may have on business’ real estate decisions going forward and why, at the end of the day, getting through the current challenges is all about keeping good relationships.

In this episode, Chris speaks with Michael Weinberger, who assists clients with business and privacy law. Chris and Michael cover a range of issues including the importance of maintaining good cyber hygiene, how the pandemic has affected franchisor/franchisee relationships, and the privacy challenges of working remotely.

As business are forced to suspend operations or dramatically change how they do business, we sit down with Liam Ledgerwood from Siskinds’ Labour & Employment Group to talk about what employers can do to manage today’s challenges and what they should consider as they plan for the future.