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Mark Schreiber, McDermott Law Firm, Boston, Cybersecurity Law Attorney

In today’s world, general counsel face an ever-increasing demand to manage exponentially more risks, involving greater complexity, in much shorter time frames and with more potential impact on business performance. As expectations upon them evolve, law firm networks are assisting GCs in making their organisations more agile and effective.    Even before the COVID-19 pandemic impacted corporations the world over, general counsel were finding their roles becoming increasingly challenging, moving from simply providing legal advice to making strategic decisions and helping to manage risk. �...

Food and Drug Regulations. The above legislative requirements are clearly motivated by safety concerns that arise from heightened risk of transmitting communicable diseases to at-risk individuals.  There is no guidance (yet) from any government on whether vaccination for COVID-19 will be added to the list of required immunizations for such workers. More commonly, provinces have the power to order mandatory vaccination, at the direction of a government official or the province's Chief Medical Officer of Health. 5  However, at the time of writing, most of provinces, including Ontario, have s...

Food and Drug Regulations. The above legislative requirements are clearly motivated by safety concerns that arise from heightened risk of transmitting communicable diseases to at-risk individuals. There is no guidance (yet) from any government on whether vaccination for COVID-19 will be added to the list of required immunizations for such workers. More commonly, provinces have the power to order mandatory vaccination, at the direction of a government official or the province’s Chief Medical Officer of Health. [5] However, at the time of writing, most of provinces, including Ontario, have st...