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Richard Potter QC

A Capsule Bibliography

General Business Law

  • Special Lecturer, Law Society of Upper Canada, Contract Law (1984)
  • Speaker on International Business Transactions, Canadian Institute for Advanced Legal Studies, Cambridge (1987)
  • Founding Editor, Business Law Reports (author of dozens of annotations and commentaries in the areas of contract law, computer law and ADR) (1977-2001)
  • Speaker, Canadian Corporate Counsel Association conferences (1997-2000)
  • Former Chairman of the Business Law Section, Ontario Bar Association

Computer/IT/Technology Transfer Law

  • Lecturer, Meredith Memorial Lectures, McGill University (1982)
  • Lecturer and Seminar Leader (international tech transfer) Shanghai (1985), Bangkok and Singapore (1984)
  • Speaker on Computer Software Protection, Computer Law Association, Toronto (1986) and Vancouver (1990) and IFCLA (International Federation of Computer Law Associations), Bath (1994)
  • Chair and Speaker, Seminar on Data Protection, IBA (International Bar Association), Paris, 1992

Commercial ADR as a Preventive CRM Tool

  • Co-Chair and Speaker at a ground-breaking IBA conference in Cambridge on the use of ADR in the computer/IT sector (1987) and Chair and speaker at a seminar on the relationship between ADR and commercial courts at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Legal Studies, Cambridge (1991)
  • Writer of many commentaries and articles on the preventive use of ADR clauses in commercial agreements of all kinds (e.g. "The Role of ADR Clauses in Avoiding Foreign Litigation Entanglements" in (1997), 28 Canadian Business Law Journal 415
  • Author of the chapter on Canadian commercial arbitration in the King's College (London) publication, Commercial Dispute Resolution (1998 and 2001)

Law Practice Management

  • "IT, the Law, and the Future: A Discussion with Richard Susskind", LEXPERT Magazine, February, 2001
  • "'Practice What You Preach' for Profit: David Maister in Discussion with Richard Potter", LEXPERT Magazine, January, 2002
  • "Practice Group Management: The Next Battleground" (Richard Potter in Discussion with David Maister and Patrick McKenna), LEXPERT Magazine (planned publication, April, 2002)