In this issue - #85 April 28, 2006

We are pleased to report that Pushor Mitchell's "Flying Blue Snakes of Doom" and "Gutter Desperados" have again swept top team and individual fundraising honours for Bowl for Kids Sake!

Theresa M. Arsenault, partner at Pushor Mitchell Lawyers LLP, and Nick Arkle, Chief Forester at Gorman Bros Lumber,  have been unanimously elected as the new co-chairs of the Okanagan Partnership Society at the Partnership Board meeting yesterday.

Pushor Mitchell's Associate Counsel in China, Richard Wageman is a partner at Lehman, Lee &Xu and has been their Senior Foreign Attorney and Administrative Supervisor since 2001.

If you have been inspired by a local company or individual that has seized an opportunity and prospered,  consider nominating them for the Kelowna Chamber Business Excellence Awards.

In a recent edition of his weekly column, “Legal Ease”, which appears nationally in a variety of print and electronic media, Robert Smithson addressed the significant, and needless, risk employers take when getting involved in an appeal of an E.I. decision to award benefits to a departed employee.

In a recent edition of its electronic newsletter, News Flash, BDO Dunwoody has addressed the issue of employees who are addicted to the internet.

If you work at a Ford Motor Co. plant in Oakville Ontario but you don’t drive a Ford product, you may find your parking situation getting much worse.

Many organizations, mostly charitable or non-profit, now rely upon volunteers to do the leg-work of providing services

Decades after his death, fans of the late Elvis Presley continue to go to extreme lengths to prove their devotion to “the King of Rock and Roll”.

Job search site Monster.com recently asked the question, “Do you think having plastic surgery or cosmetic dental work would help advance your career?”.  53% of the 21,552 respondents answered in the affirmative.

Amendments to the BC Safety Standards Act requiring electricity companies to
give municipalities information about residences with unusual power
consumption will help local authorities target and shut down marijuana grow
operations more quickly and efficiently.
 

Two highly decorated former detectives were recently convicted of moonlighting as hit-men for the mob in one of the most sensational cases of police corruption in New York history.

Americans lost a record amount of money to Internet fraud
last year, with the infamous Nigerian 419 scam nabbing the
largest sums from individuals.

Internet Injects Sweeping Change Into U.S. Politics
Both Democratic and Republican campaigns are finding the
Internet to be far more efficient than the traditional tools of politics.

As web apps are becoming more secure stolen laptops have become among the easiest ways to break into corporate networks.

Pushor Mitchell partner Paul Mitchell has extensive experience in brain injury claims.

A Hawaii judge has entered a $16.5 million judgment against a Japanese seat-belt manufacturer in connection with a car crash that left a 26-year-old man paralyzed from the waist down.

It’s Time to Remove the Tax on Legal Services

Judge Hints at Code in 'Da Vinci' Ruling

“A computer is no different than a tape recorder--it records everything you do,” says Andy Spruill, who oversees the consulting division and works as a lead investigator with the Westminster, Calif., police department’s computer forensics unit.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced Thursday that Ottawa has reached an agreement with the United States that would end the long-running and costly softwood lumber dispute.

The dispute is centred on stumpage fees - set amounts charged to companies that harvest timber on public land.

The California Supreme Court has ruled that sexually explicit jokes and
off-color language by writers of the hit TV comedy series "Friends" did not
create a hostile work environment.

Abuse is a serious threat to many people with disabilities.

Owners of Teflon-coated pots and pans in 15 states are seeking to have their cases combined in a $5 billion class-action lawsuit claiming DuPont Co. failed to disclose possible health risks from using the nonstick cookwar

Terming the unusual practice a mockery of serious business,
a High Court in India has asked financial
institutions to abandon the practice of beating drums outside houses of
defaulters to recover loans.
 

Every dog has his day, but a standard poodle named Zena had her day in court
in Tennessee as the center of disputed ownership case