This page provides some insight into possible careers with a law and technology focus. These are great opportunities to pursue and can be potential student proposed internship ideas to explore more in-depth. 

 

Intellectual Property

• Trademarks and Patent Lawyer

• Canadian Intellectual Property Office

• Industry Canada

• Export Development Canada

• Franchise and Licensee Lawyer

• Copyright Board of Canada

• Private Corporation which designs or creates its own products

 

E-Commerce and Digital Business 

• In-House Counsel (Retail, Banking)

• Consumer Protection Ontario

• Competition Bureau (Legal Services - Department of Justice)

• Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC)

• Marketing and Advertising Firms

• Ministry of Consumer and Government Services

 

Privacy and Internet Law

• Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada

• Office of the Privacy Commissioner (Provincial)

• Office of the Information Commissioner of Canada

• Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC)

• Future of Privacy Forum

• International Association of Privacy Professionals

• Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (Cybersecurity)

 

Communications and Broadcasting

• Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC)

• Entertainment Company (transactional work in entertainment law)

  • Record Label

  • Media Distribution 

  • Film Producers Bureau

  • Software licensing company

  • Visual Arts and Design 

• Telecommunications Company (Legal Services department - Bell, Rogers, etc)

• Industry Canada

 

Biotechnology, Health Law, and Pharmaceuticals 

• Health Canada

• Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care (Provincial)

• Private Corporations

  • Johnson & Johnson

  • Pfizer Canada

  • Apotex

  • Merck

  • Novartis

  • Teva

  • GlaxoSmithKline

  • Roche

  • Pharmascience

  • AstraZeneca

  • Abbott Labratories

• Centre for Commercialization of Regenerative Medicine

• Genome Canada

 

Renewable Energy and Technological Development

• Environment Canada

• Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

• Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change

• Infrastructure Ontario

• Private Corporations

  • Alltech

  • Avivagen

  • BioDiesel Reactor (BDR) Technologies Inc

 

LAW FIRMS THAT PRACTICE TECHNOLOGY LAW

please note this list is not complete or exhaustive and does not include every law firm. 

 

• Bennett Jones LLP

• Bereskin & Parr LLP

• Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

• Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

• Bull, Housser & Tupper LLP

• Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP

• Dimock Stratton LLP

• Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP

• Goodmans LLP

• Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP

• Lenczner Slaght Royce Smith Griffin LLP

• McCarthy Tétrault

• Norton Rose Fulbright

• Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP

• Ridout & Maybee LLP

• ROBIC LLP

• Sim, Lowman, Ashton & McKay LLP

• Smart & Biggar

• Stikeman Elliott LLP

• Torys LLP