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| Advocacy | Business Law | Intellectual Property Law | Labour Law Welcome to Waterloo Region's student program overview. Home to approximately 30 professionals, Gowlings Waterloo Region is the largest multi-service firm in the area. We are the leading provider of legal services to technology firms in Canada's technology triangle, and our students are involved in interesting, high profile transactions with young, dynamic companies. Gowlings Waterloo Region focuses on four broad practice areas: Advocacy, Business Law, Intellectual Property and Labour Law. The Waterloo Region advocacy group is engaged in all types of litigation and administrative law. Practice areas include commercial litigation, professional negligence, employment law, municipal law, insurance defence work, insolvency and family law. Articling students are directly involved with clients, attending client interviews, hearings and trials, examinations for discovery, and in preparing court documents and legal research. The business law group offers a broad range of expertise in all aspects of corporate and commercial law, including mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, real estate, secured lending, tax and estate planning, public and private financing and securities. A particularly vibrant and growing group within business law is the technology law group—comprised of lawyers with a focus on business law and intellectual property, this group addresses the challenges faced by small-to mid-sized growth companies. Gowlings is one of the few law firms with high-level expertise in technology and intellectual property law issues such as e-commerce, patents and software licensing, as well as vast experience in corporate transactions such as venture capital financing, securities law, tax planning, acquisitions, joint-ventures and spinoffs. The business law group is typically involved in the largest and most complex transactions in the area. Articling students participate in the drafting of documentation and assist in due diligence, overseeing file management from initial contact to closing and researching points of law. Gowlings' intellectual property law group has been a major force within the Firm since its inception. The Waterloo Region IP group prosecutes applications for trade marks, patents, industrial designs and copyrights. As well, we handle all manner of high technology issues in the fields of biotechnology, genetic engineering, plant breeders' rights and food and drug production. Related areas of practice include computer law, franchising, advertising and product labelling, and trade secrets. The Gowlings labour law group has earned a reputation for pre-eminence in labour law. The management side practice offers expertise in collective bargaining, arbitration, Labour Board hearings and mediations. Members of this team work closely with the business law group on employment and labour issues in the sale and acquisition of businesses.
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