Over the past decade, Mountain View, California-based Google Inc. has filed about 65 complaints concerning its trade-mark with arbitration service providers accredited by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).

The complaints involved disputes with domain name owners over their alleged use or representation of the GOOGLE trade-mark, and the Internet search-engine giant has been successful in all but two — once in 2004, and again in 2009.

As athletes from around the world hope to set records at the Winter Olympics in Vancouver, protesters could set their own.

Those opposed to both the Games taking place on what the Olympic Resistance Network calls 'unceded Indigenous land' and 'the range of social injustices perpetrated' by them, are expected to rely on cyberspace in a big way to get their message across.

The recent economic downturn forced many law firms and in-house legal departments to keep a closer eye on the bottom line.

But keeping costs down requires good project management — a well-established practice for engineering and consulting firms and any companies or organizations that undertake large projects, yet project management is 'virtually unheard of within law firms,' according to Brian Armstrong, executive vice-president and general counsel at Canada’s first private-sector nuclear generator, Tiverton, Ont.-based Bruce Power LP.

In 2004 Kenneth Bagshaw turned 65, the mandatory retirement age at Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, and he was prepared to go gracefully into the sunset and do some "consulting work on the side." Instead, shortly before reaching the retirement deadline, Bagshaw accepted the biggest challenge of his legal career: the position of chief legal officer for the Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (VANOC).