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In-House Counsel Spotlight: Dina Maxwell


Dina Maxwell

Dina Maxwell is Senior Legal Counsel and Privacy Lead at PwC Canada. She advises on all aspects of privacy program management with a view to provincial, national and international data protection law. She develops strategies for measuring the effectiveness and performance of corporate privacy programs, conducts privacy impact assessments and gap analyses, and prepares guidance documents and toolkits for corporate privacy training. She advises on breach management, access to information requests, cross border data transfers, anti-spam and marketing compliance, and privacy contractual terms. Dina is a frequent presenter, speaker and author on privacy, data governance, and big data topics. Dina is a Fellow of Information Privacy (FIP), a Certified Information Privacy Manager (CIPM), and a Certified Information Privacy Professional in both Canada (CIPP/C), and the United States (CIPP/US), as designated by the International Association of Privacy Professionals. Dina received her J.D. from the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Law in 2009 and was called to the Ontario Bar in 2010. Prior to law school, Dina received a Bachelor of Arts in English & American Literature and Language with a minor in French from Harvard University.

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Corporate Brief - February 2021 No. 316

SUPREME COURT OF CANADA CLARIFIES APPROACH TO PURE ECONOMIC LOSS CLAIMS

In 1688782 Ontario Inc. v. Maple Leaf Foods Inc., 2020 SCC 35 [Maple Leaf], a 5-4 majority of the Supreme Court held that Maple Leaf Foods Inc. was not liable in negligence...

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Legislative Update (2020 10): Significant Individuals (BCBCA)

This legislative update describes the new requirements relating to individuals with significant control of a corporation under the British Columbia Business Corporations Act, S.B.C. 2002, c. 57 ("BCBCA") where effective October 1, 2020, all non-public corporations incorporated under the BCBCA are required to maintain a register of significant individuals. 

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Lawyers can be diversity and inclusion changemakers in firms, say conference speakers | John Schofield

In the tumultuous weeks following the death last May of George Floyd, as he was handcuffed and pinned to the ground by a white police officer’s knee in Minneapolis, lawyer Jorja Jackson met with colleagues in her department to discuss the troubling events and her own experiences facing systemic racism.

 

Rule of Law Report – Volume 3, Issue 4 – December 2020

The Rule of Law Reports is to help raise awareness of the needs for vulnerable people in Canada and around the world.

 

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How COVID-19 changes practice of law | Margot Mary Davis and Jennifer Lynch

COVID-19 has impacted and changed various industries and fields. The legal industry is no exception. Forbes noted that COVID-19 is changing the legal field and required the “… legal ecosystem become more agile, fluid, collaborative and fluid.”

 


Past Newsletters

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October 2020 edition

— Featured: Roger Love
— Feminism’s true ‘she-roes’
— What it’s like to be Black@Blakes
— SCC clarifies test on legality of post-incorporation contracts
— Why working from home might mean going Dutch

August 2020 edition

— Featured: Elizabeth Maishlish
— Legal solutions to commercial insolvency during COVID-19
— B.C.’s benefit companies: New model for corporate social responsibility

June 2020 edition

— Featured: Wasiu Omotoso
— Protesters, police and pandemic
— Leading the way forward: Modernizing access to justice

April 2020 edition

— Featured: Jeanelle Dundas
— COVID-19 time for reflection, possible change
— Ethical obligations for lawyers with COVID-19

February 2020 edition

— Featured: Yasmine Kabongo Munga
— Robot justice: China’s use of Internet courts
— Navigating international business negotiations: Four challenges

December 2019 edition

— Featured: Fernando Garcia
— International arbitration gets innovative: A creative solution
— Termination for defamation: HR tips to avoid Cherry scenario

October 2019 edition

— Featured: James Bishop
— Legal operations: The hard work of selling change
— Overview of minimum wage, hours of work laws across Canada

August 2019 edition

— Featured: Vivene Salmon
— In-house counsel should lead charge against legal aid cuts
— Employee rights to shares on termination governed by shareholders’ agreement

June 2019 edition

— Featured: Olga Young
— From Estonian AI judges to robot mediators in Canada, U.K.
— Perils of Amazon robots that hire, fire

April 2019 edition

— Featured: Raphael Tachie
— Share purchase agreements: Pre-closing tax liabilities
— Budget affects stock options, TFSAs and Individual Pension Plans

March 2019 edition

— Featured: Charlene Theodore
— Equity compensation for independent contractors
— High damages award upheld for employee fired for alleged fraud, intimidated with counter-claim

December 2018 edition

— Featured: Helen Liu
— Complying with PIPEDA's new breach reporting rules
— Privacy culture: The new corporate redesign

October 2018 edition

— Featured: Steven Hennig, Shopify's Commercial Group
— Experts' opinion that Canada 'caved on IP' in USMCA is all about skewed perspective
— Cannabis roundup: This week’s legalization opinion and analysis
— Rule of Law Report, Issue 3

August 2018 edition

— Featured: Aliya Ramji, Figure 1
— Up in smoke: Preparing for the presence of marijuana in the workplace
— Sexual harassment claims a perfect storm of trouble for businesses, say lawyers
— Rule of Law Report, Issue 2

June 2018 edition

— Featured: Tiffany Jung, BuyATab Online
— Get over your fear of giving references
— Benefits of technology worth the risk in M&A: panel
— New data protection standards will be challenge for Canadian IHC: panel

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