 | Joe Conforti and Peter Ruby at the IT.CAN Annual Conference 2013 |
October-24-2013
| Lawyer | Joe Conforti, Peter Ruby |
| Area | Employment and Labour |
Details
October 24 - 25, 2013
Hyatt Regency Toronto
Toronto, Ontario
Thursday, October 24, 2013
Managing the Employment Relationship: IT Issues from Hiring to Firing
Speaker: Joe Conforti, Partner, Goodmans LLP
This session will cover:
- Social media in the hiring process: Background checks and privacy issue dos and don’ts
- Employment contract terms for IT: Confidentiality, restrictive covenants, conflicts of interest, ownership of IP and more
- Workplace privacy revisited: The limits of employee monitoring/surveillance in light of R. v. Cole
- Employees’ use of company computers and their own personal devices: Blurring of work life and personal life in IT
- BYOD: Ownership of information, employer access, remote wiping issues
- Managing a termination: Trade secrets, confidentiality and post-employment conduct
Friday, October 25, 2013
Roundtables: Ethical Considerations in Negotiating and Drafting IT Contracts
Speaker: Peter Ruby, Goodmans LLP
This session will cover:
- How to manage untruths, exaggeration, misleading statements and posturing during negotiations?
- What to do when you discover a technical error made by the other side during negotiations?
- How to handle the discovery of a defect in an original contract that you drafted?
- How to handle the discovery of a drafting error in your client’s favour?
- How to manage unethical clients?
