Fraudsters are becoming bolder. Today my colleague Adam Goodman received a cheque payable to him in the amount of $145,000 via mail with a brief note seeking legal assistance on a family law matter. The envelope had no return address. The only contact information was an email account and a foreign address. The sender asked Mr. [...]

I’m pleased to announce that PSWLaw has adapted the following initiatives to better protect our environment in 2010:
Energy Conversation

Our central A/C shuts off at 6:00 pm on weekdays and remains off on weekends.
We adapt natural lighting in our corner office suite whenever possible.
We use CFL bulbs for artificial lighting.
Our PCs hibernate after 15 minutes of inactivity.

Reducing [...]

The Health Professions Appeal and Review Board (HPARB) is an administrative tribunal established under the provincial legislation Regulated Health Profession Act,* 1991, and the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care Appeal and Review Boards Act, 1998.^ It has jurisdiction to conduct complaint and registration reviews and hearings. Self-regulated health professions in Ontario are subject to [...]

Earlier I posted a few blogs on the collaborative family law scam (see e.g., “Collaborative Family Law Agreement Fraud Becomes More Convincing,” June 29, 2010.). It appears that this type of fraud has spread beyond North America and reached continental Europe.
I was contacted by a lawyer in Italy who told me in an email that [...]

Recently I have received several calls from search engine optimization (”SEO”) companies. They all claimed that for a small fee, they could guarantee that my website would show up on the first search-result page, or even within the top 5 positions.
Don’t be fooled. There are no SEO guarantees.
Google and other search engines utilize a complex [...]