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Bruce Redekop, practical legal solutions for business &  entrepreneur ventrues - CLICK to PROFILE of Bruce Redekop Sorel Leinburd, business ip-IT technology development lawyer CLICK FOR Intellectual Property Technology Lawyers

Business & Entrepreneur Ventures Development & IP-IT Lawyers

Class Action Lawyers - Product  Liability - Professional Negligence -  Malpractice - Competition Act Violation - CLICK TO CLASS ACTION LAWYER  Bruce Lemer in Vancovuer

Class Action Lawyers for Product Liablity, Professional Negligence, Competition Act Violations







Vancouver Business & Commercial Transactions  Lawyers with Canada-USA-Global  Cross-Border Services

Canada·USA·China·Asia  |  UK·England·Wales·Nigeria


JEFFREY S. LOWE   B.Comm. LLB.

Canada Business Immigration Lawyer

Jeffrey in offices overlooking False Creek, near Vancouver General Hospital

Fluent in Mandarin Chinese and Cantonese Chinese & English, he heads the GLOBAL HR TEAM of Vancouver's Lowe & Company.  Other members the team are fluent in:  English; Japanese; Chinese: Mandarin / Cantonese / Fukien / Teochew.

Jeffrey acts for business people, local and multinational firms, educational institutions, other law firms and also teaches Canada immigration seminars.

Clients and businesses from over 55 countries have been helped with:  business start ups, investments, NAFTA work permits, intracompany transfer work visas and other Canada business / family immigration issues for over 20 years.

Technology Professionals & Canada Work Permits, aka work visas information technology workers and/or software development workers in high demand - May Quality for "Facilitated Processing" by Canada Immigration

LOWE and COMPANY
Lawyers & Registered Canada Immigration Consultants fluent in:  English, Polish, Arabic, Mandarin Chinese, Cantonese Chinese & Fukkien (Taiwanese), and Teochew. Chinese Dialects

#900 - 777 West Broadway,
Vancouver, BC, V5Z 4J7
Canada
Phone:  604 875-9338
fax:    604 875-1325
E-mail:  jlowe@canadavisalaw.com
Web-site:  CanadaVisaLaw.com
Lawyers Profile: J. Lowe



Business Technology & Trial Lawyers:  KERR REDEKP LEINBURD BOSWELL Sorel Leinburd, Corporate Commercial Technology Business lawyer

SORÈL LEINBURD,  barrister & solicitor, LLB

Business Lawyer · Intellectual Property · Information Technology

SorèL is a principal with the firm of Kerr Redekop Leinburd Boswell.  His practice focuses on information technology ("IT"), intellectual property ("IP"), and in corporate & commercial law.

Sorèl's IT experience includes computer software development agreements, technology licensing, a range of internet and e-commerc e agreements, distribution and representative agreements, confidentiality agreements, employment and consulting agreements. His IP experience covers trademarks, trade secrets and copyright matters.

On the incorporate and commercial side, Sorèl's experience includes company formation, shareholders and partnership agreements, sales and acquisitions of businesses, financing, commercial leasing, incorporate restructuring transactions, and a broad range of business contracts.

Sorèl's clients include small and medium-size businesses and entrepreneurs at all stages of development including start-ups and growth companies. Representative clients and their scope of activities include software and hardware development, technology development & manufacturing, technology marketing, food, clothing & product manufacturing, commercial real estate holding companies, and professionals including medical doctors, dentists, architects and lawyers. Sorèl is also regularly engaged by other lawyers to provide professional services to their clients.

Sorel Leinburd, Corporate Commercial Technology Business lawyer

SORÈL LEINBURD, LLB
barrister & solicitor

Kerr Redekop Leinburd   Boswell
Business, Technology & Commercial Litigation Trial Lawyers

Associates in the Practice of Law · Barristers & Solicitors / Trade Mark Agents

#410 - 1333 W. Broadway
Vancouver, BC, V6H 4C1


Phone:  604.734.4554    Email: Sorel@krlb.com

Also see more about this "hi-tech" lawyer at www.lawyers-bc.com/profile



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Mrs. ABIOLA MORGAN-ANYAKWO  

Lawyer with law degrees from Cambridge, UK & Lagos, Nigeria now a Strategic Business Consultant in Vancouver
  • Barrister & Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria called to the bar in 1982.
  • Member of the Law Society of England & Wales, admitted as a solicitor in 1998.
  • Partner of the law firm, Legal Partnership Consult, Lagos, Nigeria
  • Strategic Legal Consultant / International Business-Development Lawyer with Global Human Resources Team of Lowe & Company, Business-Immigration Lawyers, Vancouver, BC Canada 2004

Mrs. Anyakwo studied in Nigeria and the UK, obtaining her Bachelor's degree in law from the University of Lagos, Nigeria in 1981 and her Masters degree in law from the University of Cambridge, England in 1984.
s/a www.law.cam.ac.uk
s/a Cambrige University Alumni email

Mrs. Anyakwo has secured many academic awards and distinctions , including the Federal Government of Nigeria merit award for academic excellence at the University of Lagos, Nigeria.

She is presently a partner of the law firm, Legal Partnership Consult, Lagos, Nigeria, and Strategic Legal Consultant to the law firm, Lowe & Company in Vancouver, Canada.

She has at various times been responsible for setting practice objectives, strategic market planning, and client service and development.

Mrs Anyakwo has extensive experience in providing legal and commercial advice to clients, and has a strong commercial sense gained in over 20 years of practice.  She has worked largely in the area of international joint ventures and strategic alliances, and has assisted may foreign company's in their business affairs in Nigeria. She has also worked extensively in British immigration law and practice.

Notable assignments include acting as counsel to a Canadian technology firm in supply of US$15 million (dollars) telecommunications equipment to a Nigerian company, and acting as retained counsel to several multi-national organizations in Nigeria.  Mrs Anyakwo has also served as representative of foreign investors in several Nigerian companies.

ABIOLA MORGAN-ANYAKWO  (Mrs)
Lowe & Company
Canada business immigration lawyers
#900 - 777 West Broadway,
Vancouver, BC, V5Z 4J7
Canada

Phone:  604 875-9338   
Fax: 604 875-1325
E-mail:  abi@canadavisalaw.com
Web-site:  CanadaVisaLaw.com

Cambridge Alumni Email:  A.O.Morgan.83@cantab.net
nb. reference alumni email




VANCOUVER BUSINESS LAWYERS & LAW FIRMS DIRECTORY

Business Technology & Trial Lawyers:  KERR REDEKP LEINBURD BOSWELL

KERR - REDEKOP - LEINBURD - BOSWELL
Business Development · Technology Development & Commercial & IP-IT Disputes - Trial Lawyers

If you do business in the fast lane, think of us as
your pit crew

"To entrepreneurs, time is money. That's why it's important to have a lawyer who understands business and can respond to your needs quickly.  We offer a full range of experience in many areas of business law, both in and out of Court."
[quote 2008.04.18 Website:  www.KRLB.com]

L E G A L   P R A C T I C E   A R E A S

Sorel Leinburd, Corporate Commercial Technology Business lawyer
  • Copyright
    Intellectual Property Disputes  ·  Software Development  ·  Technology Agreements  ·  Trademarks  · 
  • Lease Law
  • Real Estate
    Commercial Financing  ·  Real Estate Development  ·  Real Estate Transactions
  • Secured Transactions
  • Wills, Estates & Trust Law
    Elder Law  ·  Estate Litigation  ·  Probate  ·  Trusts  ·  Wills
  • Commercial Law
    Business Purchase & Sale  ·  Consulting Agreements  ·  Commercial Litigation  ·  Commercial Financing  ·  Distribution Agreements  ·  Franchising  ·  Licensing Agreements  ·  Trademarks
  • Corporate Law
    Corporate Financing  ·  Incorporations
  • Dispute Resolution
    Collections (Collector/Debtor)  ·  Commercial Arbitration  ·  Commercial Mediation  ·  Contractual Disputes  ·  Injunctions  ·  Intellectual Property Disputes  ·  Internet Litigation  ·  Partnership Disputes  ·  Shareholders Disputes  · 
  • Employment Law
    Employment Agreements  · Wrongful Dismissals

KERR - REDEKOP - LEINBURD - BOSWELL
Suite 410 - 1333 West Broadway
Vancouver, British Columbia
Canada V6H 4C1
Phone  604.734.4554
Email  mail@krlb.com
Website:  KRLB.com






Legal Solutions for Business & Entrepreneur Ventures

Bruce Redekop, practical legal solutions for business &  entrepreneur ventrues - CLICK to PROFILE of Bruce Redekop

BRUCE REDEKOP
barrister and solicitor, BA, LLB, Reg. Trademarks Agent

Business Planning Legal Consultant for Business & Entrepreneur Ventures

go to www.VenturesLaw.com for more information about what Bruce's services.



Sorel Leinburd, business ip-IT technology development lawyer CLICK FOR Intellectual Property Technology Lawyers

SORÈL LEINBURD 
barrister & solicitor, LLB
Business Lawyer · Intellectual Property · Information Technology · Transactional Law

Kerr Redekop Leinburd Boswell
Business, Technology & Commercial Litigation Trial Lawyers

Associates in the Practice of Law · Barristers & Solicitors / Registered Trade Mark Agents

#410 - 1333 W. Broadway
Vancouver, BC, V6H 4C1


Phone:  604.734.4554   
see also Vancouver Telephone Business Directory

Lawyers-BC Profile: Sorèl Leinburd


Colin Campbell, 35 years of business-commercial litigation experience

COLIN K. CAMPBELL,
BSc.(honours), LLB

Vancouver lawyer with 35 years of experience in business-commercial litigation and consulting

Assists in start-up of companies and non-profit agencies. handling:

  • incorporation and annual reports
  • contracts
  • leases, mortgages
  • litigation and
  • employee problems
  • being Legal counsel for debtor and/or creditor cases.

Colin K. Cambpell and the firm of Campbell Learn Zenk lawyers can help you choose the right remedy for your specific creditor problems. Visit their website for contact information including a toll free telephone number for clients outside of the Vancouver city area.




  • Lloyd H. Aasen Business Law - Lawyer
    Lando & Company, LLP
    2010 - 1055 West Georgia
    P.O. Box 11140
    Vancouver, BC  V6E 3P3
    Telephone:  604 682-6821

    Note the firm of Lando & Co. also handles REAL ESTATE LAW-LEGAL WORK - s/a Vancouver Real Estate Lawyers Directory

  • BARRIGAR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY GROUP
    a.k.a. THOMPSON COOPER LLP
    Barristers & Solicitors, Patent & Trade-Mark Agents
    Vancouver & Victoria BC Offices
    see firm profile in Trademark Directory


VICTORIA & VANCOUVER ISLAND BUSINESS LAWYERS & LAW FIRMS


  • JAMES HUTCHISON, LLB
    Victoria BC - Corporate-Commercial Law, Finance & Intellectual Property Law
    see J.S. Hutchison practice profile

  • LORENZO OSS-CECH, BSC LLB
    Victoria BC - Corporate-Commercial Litigation, Personal Injury & Technology Law
    is fluent in English · Italian · and also speaks some French.
    see L. Oss-Cech practice profile

  • PAUL SCAMBLER, LLB, QC
    Preferred areas of practice:  Secured transactions, wills and estates, real property and commercial mediation
    Clay and Company,
    P.O. Box 961
    837 Burdett Avenue
    Victoria, BC V8W 2S4
    Telephone: 250 386-2261
    E-mail: pscambler@clay.bc.ca

    see P. Scambler, practice profile


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CANADA IMMIGRATION LITIGATION LAWYERS for Immigration Tribunal Hearings, Federal Court and Supreme Court Appeals

ANDREW Z. WLODYKA, Barrister & Solicitor

Canada Immigration  Appeals-Litigation Lawyer  Andrew  Wlodyka

Andrew heads the LITIGATION TEAM at Lowe & Co.  and ... handles Appeals at all divisions of the Immigration and Refugee Board, the Federal Court of Canada, and has appeared before the Supreme Court of Canada.

He represents individuals and corporations in all aspects of Canadian immigration, including independent, family and business immigration, Work and Student Permits and Visitor visas.

Andrew Wlodyka, BA LLB
Wlodyka MacDonald Teng Barristers and Solicitors

#509 - 1755 West Broadway ,
Vancouver, BC, V6J  4S5,
Canada

Phone:   604.569.1833
Email:   awlodyka@axionet.com
Lawyers-BC Profile:  Andrew Wlodyka
Website: 




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B U S I N E S S  -  C O M M E R C I A L  L I T I G A T I O N  L A W Y E R S

Colin Campbell, lawyer for business-commercial law including: incorporations, franchise reviews, creditor-debtor problems etc.

Metro Vancouver - Burnaby Business Commercial Law Services 30+ Years
Colin Campbell, BSC LLB
Incorporations · Franchise · Creditors · Debtors

Baily McLean, metrotown tower office view of this Corporate Commercial  Firm with over 30 years experience in shareholder disputes, wrongful dismissals, incorporations and business litigation  CLICK FOR MORE INFO

Chinese Text for FLORENCE T WONG Corporate Buiness Lawyer with over 25 years experience and who is fluent in Mandarin Chinese and Cantonese Chinese
FLORENCE T. WONG, fluent in Mandarin & Cantonese Chinese, has over 25 years experience in Corporate-Commercial Contracts, Financing,& Leasing

Business Technology & Trial Lawyers: *** CLICK TO *** KERR REDEKP LEINBURD BOSWELL

VANCOUVER · NEW YORK · SINGAPORE · CHINA
MultiLingual Lawyer Alexandra Wong LLB MBA international business & trade legal & planning development

Terrance Carter, known throughtout Canada for his work with non-profit agencies also does inttellectual property - trademark work through affiliated offices in Vancouver, Ottawa and Toronto

O N T A R I O  L A W Y E R S  FOR
Canada Technology · Intellectual Property · TradeMarks · Copyright · Business Law

Ottawa · Greater Toronto Area ·


see also CHARITY & NOT-FOR-PROFIT LAW from Carters Professional Corporation www.carters.ca (Carters) is one of the leading firms in Canada in the area of charity and not-for-profit law and is able to provide a full range of legal services to its charitable and not-for-profit clients, as well as to individuals, corporations and businesses.  With offices in Mississauga, Ottawa and Orangeville, Ontario, as well as meeting facilities in Toronto, Guelph and Vancouver, Carters provides assistance to clients across Canada and internationally with regard to all aspects of charity and not-for-profit law.  The lawyers and staff at Carters are committed to excellence in providing clients with complete legal solutions for their unique needs.

Carters.ca Business-Corporate Law

Carters.ca Intellectual Property & Information Technology Law



COLIN K. CAMPBELL, BSc.(honours), LLB
Vancouver lawyer with 35 years of experience in business-commercial litigation and consulting.

Colin Campbell, 35 years of business-commercial litigation experience

Assists in start-up of companies, including franchise operators and non-profit agencies, including incorporation and annual reports.  Colin deals with contracts, leases, mortgagees, litigation and employee problems.  Colin also acts as Legal counsel for debtor and/or creditor cases.


  • Collecting a debt or unpaid bill
  • Slap a lien on a property or project
  • Obtaining an injunction to prevent a sale
  • Debtor assistance when a judgement has been obtained against you
  • Debtor assistance when a creditor has garnisheed your wages
  • Creditor assistance to find out where you stand in priority to other creditors

Colin Campbell and the firm of Campbell Learn Zenk (website) can help you choose the right remedy for your specific creditor problems. Visit their website for contact information including a toll free telephone number for clients outside of the Vancouver city area.


For Example:  If your claim is for $25,000 or less you should sue in Small Claims Court.  [This was raised from a $10,000 limit in 2005 for BC Small Claims]


Sorel Leinburd International commerical intellectual property business lawyer graphic Jennifer Lee, Vancouver registered trademarks and registered patents agent/lawyer


Baily McLean, metrotown tower office view of this Corporate Commercial  Firm with over 30 years experience in shareholder disputes, wrongful dismissals, incorporations and business litigation  CLICK FOR MORE INFO

BAILY McLEAN
Corporate-Commercial Lawyers

Frank M. Baily, B.Sc. LLB.
Brent A. McLean, B.Comm. LLB.

Barristers & Solicitors Serving Metro Vancouver for over 35 years in the areas of: 

·  Corporate - Commercial Law
·  Shareholder Agreements & Disputes
·  Employment Disputes / Wrongful Dismissal
·  Corporate and Commercial Transactions
·  Corporate Restructuring
·  General Drafting of Commercial Agreements
·  Corporate Security
·  Civil Litigation
·  Commercial Leases
·  Mortgages & Real Estate Conveyancing
·  Wills Estates & Trusts Administration, including Estate Disputes

BAILY McLEAN
900 - 4720 Kingsway
Metrotower II (next to the Metrotown Bus Loop Entrance to the Mall])
Burnaby, BC
V5H 4N2
Tel:  604-437-6611
Fax:  604-437-3065

Email:  businesslawyersbm@metrotown.info
Website:  www.bmgm.com





Cross Border Lawyers Canada-USA & Asia-Pacific Legal Practice

ALEXANDRA CELINE WONG  LLB, LLM, MBA
International Business and Technology Lawyer
Vancouver & New York Associate Offices

Licensed to Practice Law in BC, Canada and New York State, USA

Bar admissions:  Canada (BC & Ontario) · United States (New York) · Singapore

Languages:  English · Mandarin Chinese · Cantonese Chinese · Foochow Chinese · French


ALEXANDRA WONG's Legal practice areas include:

  • Corporate / Commercial Law
  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • International Investment & Transactions
  • International Structure & Finance
  • Technology Law
  • Business Outsourcing, Insourcing, Offshoring, Nearshoring
  • Business Succession Planning
    including Wills & Estate Law
  • Commercial, Construction and Engineering Litigation
  • Professional Practice Issues and Disputes

A business lawyer with international experience in Asia and North America with a focus on international business, corporate/commercial, finance and engineering/technology law.

Alexandra's corporate and commercial practice focuses on companies entering or doing business in U.S. and Canada.  Alexandra's experience includes formation of legal entities, shareholders, partnership and alliance agreements, mergers, sales and acquisitions of businesses, procurement, distribution, outsourcing and service agreements, financing, commercial leasing, corporate restructuring transactions.

Alexandra's engineering/technology practice includes engineering and construction agreements, software development agreements, technology reselling, transfer and licensing agreements, internet hosting and e-commerce agreements, distribution and representative agreements, confidentiality and non-competition agreements, employment and consulting agreements.

Alexandra aims to deliver innovative and commercial astute legal advice, with a service level that is accessible, prompt, effective and at a reasonable cost.

In the 1990s, Alexandra worked on both transactional and litigation aspects of business, corporate and commercial law in Singapore with Joseph Hoo Morris & Kumar, a long time general practice firm in Singapore. She also served as legal counsel to the shipyard division of SembCorp Industries Ltd, a publicly listed Singapore conglomerate trading on the Singapore Stock Exchange. Aside from her legal practice, Alexandra has worked with individuals and companies on investments and market development/expansion in U.S. and Canada.

Alexandra is also an Attorney-at-law in the State of New York and is associated with the firm of Rosensteel & Beckmann LLC in New York City, practicing international, business and technology law.

  • Barrister & Solicitor, B.C. Canada
  • Barrister & Solicitor, Ontario, Canada
  • Attorney-at-Law, State of New York, USA
  • National University of Singapore law school law.nus.edu.sg where she obtained both her Bachelor (1994) and Masters (1996) in Law in international business and corporate finance
  • Concordia University business school in Montreal, Canada where she graduated with an MBA (2004   Masters in Business Administration) in finance, business valuations and organizational and strategic consulting.

Aside from her legal practice, Alexandra has consulted with investors and businesses in real estate, solution-provision, distribution and tourism industries.

Alexandra Wong - WONG and ASSOCIATES
Langley, BC 
Canada  V3A 1B8
Telephone:   604-628-2317
E-mail:  A. Wong
Website:  EngTechLaw.com

see also New York Attorney-at-law Profile for Alexandra at www.rosensteel.com
Attorneys

Rosensteel Law www.rosensteellaw.com

"... Legal Services for the High-Tech, High-Paced, Global Marketplace"

Rosensteel Law is a full-service law firm.  Through an organized team of attorneys and professionals, and a well established network of correspondent law firms overseas, the firm provides world-wide legal counseling.
[n other words] .... a full-service law firm specializing in servicing technology oriented companies and individuals.

Rosensteel Law LLC practices in the following areas of law: Technology Law, Computer Law, Intellectual Property Law, General Corporate Law, Business Law, Tax Law, International Law, Real Estate, Commercial Arbitration, Commercial Litigation, Mergers and Acquisitions, Funding and Banking Transactions, Emerging Technologies, Medical Malpractice and Products Liability Litigation, Trials and Appeals.

The firm advises clients in North America and worldwide, including Europe, Asia and South America." [fr. website 2009.02.20 ]

ROSENSTEEL LAW
90 Park Avenue,
17th Floor
New York, New York 10016
Tel:  (212) 808-8300



Dill Gosal, criminal lawyer / defense attorney practises both in BC and Washington State  courts


GOSAL, Dilraj (Dil) Singh
B.A., J.D., LL.M.

Criminal Defense & Personal Injury Lawyer, for BC and Washington State Courts

Preferred Areas of Practice:  Criminal Law in Canada & USA · Personal Injury · ICBC Accident Claims.

Experienced in both BC and Washington State law courts - Practices as a barrister and solicitor in BC and as a Counselor-at-law / Attorney in Washington State, USA courts. 

Dil a J.D. Juris Doctor / Doctorate in Jurisprudence from Washington State University & a Master of Laws degree from the State University of New York.  A legal resource for those cross-border car accident / DUI / personal injury legal cases.  Dil is fluent in English and Punjabi.

Dilraj Singh Gosal
barrister & solicitor

Office:  #205, 12830-80th Ave., Surrey, BC, V3W 3A8
Phone:  604.598.1118
| Lawyer's Profile in Lawyers-BC.comsee more BC Criminal Law info. | GosalLaw.com |


LIE DETECTOR / TRUTH VERIFICATION TESTING FOR CRIMINAL COURT CASES

Pacific Polygraph Services Ltd.

John I. R. Weller
certified since 1973
#95 - 1687 West Broadway
Vancouver, BC  V6J 1X2  Canada
Telephone:  604 669-5945
email: tbc


see also: www.policepolygraph.org/index.htm American Association of Police Polygraphists web site

Other Lawyer's Support Services


Private Investigators & Investigation & Corporate Security Services
in Canada & USA

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Full Service Law Firm, Campbell Learn Zenk, serves Surrey from Burnaby  Offices - lawyers Gordon Zenk and Colin Campbell in photo - NOTE TOLL FREE PHONE

Colin K. Campbell, B.Sc. (Hon), LLB.

Gordon W. Zenk, B.A., LLB. (speaks German)

  • CAMPBELL LEARN ZENK  Full Service Law Firm
    • Personal Injury & ICBC Accident Claims
      Plaintiff & Defence Trial Lawyers
    • Insurance Law
    • Family Law
    • Criminal Defence Lawyers
      BC & Ontario Criminal Law Experience
    • Real Estate Conveyance & Construction Law Services
    • Collections
    • Corporate Law
    • Wills and Estates

208 - 3855 Henning Drive  Burnaby, BC  V5C 6N3
Tel:  604.298.5297  
Toll Free:  1.888.638.2388
Email: office@clz.ca

Web: Metrotown Lawyers

* Henning Dr. is just south of the Lougheed Highway and intersects Boundary Rd. - very central to the Greater Vancouver Area
* See MAP of Greater Vancouver Municipalities including Surrey, New Westminster, Burnaby, Vancouver, Richmond etc.


Business Consultant - Freelance Writer, Vancouver's Brian Buchanan,  writes  for iwide range of business promotions-developments on and off-line

Throwing a net over the new writing

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Freelance writing in an electronic age

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2009 Future Predictions from 1997


by:  Brian Buchanan, MBA buchanantwo@gmail.com
- freelance writer and business consultant, Vancouver, BC, Canada
-originally published in www.provenance.ca  /  ISSN 1203-8954 - Vol. 2 No. 2 Spring 1997

Whatever will happen to freelance writing in the electronic age?  One answer: everyone will do it.  That is, everyone will have access to the envigorating ethers of the Net to search for primary information and publish one's own explications, prolificly, at will. 

Who will need magazines and newspapers? One will merely read the wire service stories or other information from research or intelligence-gathering data banks right off the screen, print what one wants and move on to the thousands of usenet groups, forums and other collections of like-minded or like-interested devotees of every subject under the sun. Out of the hunt for Everyman's red october will come everyone's private magazine.  A very sophisticated clipping file, personally spun. 

Oh sure, the odd large-circulation mags like Time Time.com , US News (www.usnews.com and World Report , perhaps even Toronto-focussed Macleans (MacLeans.ca might hang around in an electronic form, paying a few staffers and even fewer freelancers to scribble a few words. But won't information technology make everyone an editor-writer-researcheo Magazines are all electronic now.

Won't scale economies make them cheaper operations requiring fewer writers? Sure, but look at the these magazines on the net. They're still made the old way. Once a month anactronisms. So maybe even the conventional big publications will fade away. They're not current and "now" enough. The newly and truly wired will simply go out for a quick hunt with a good search engine and concoct his news and commentary fresh, without intermediaries.

One quibble in all this compositional democracy. Oh, maybe two or three. Analytical and writing talent are relatively rare currencies.

Most people, even bright sparks, couldn't write their way out of a paper bag. In fact, considering the quality of 95% of what one sees on the net, most authors of this dreck should wear paper bags to hide their embarrassment. Although judging by the hubris betrayed on much of the net prose, its authors probably have severely underdeveloped shame glands.

So modern wired man and woman may still turn to professional thinkers and writers for their daily intellectual bread, instead of attempting to make it themselves every day, or hoping to rely on the humble efforts of multitudes of fellow amateurs.

Equal technical access won't produce equal intellectual product.  History revealed a similar phenomenon with the Gutenburg revolution: at first everyone got into the printing game, churning out gigantic volumes of uneven quality, but mostly bad. By the end of the 18th Century, professional writers and publishing houses were firmly established, and amateurs receded into richly deserved oblivion. Look at the amateurs' works now and weep for egalitarianism. And pray for the professionalization of the net.

So there will still be a place for writers. The great freelancing rush will give way to the best and brightest, just as the post-Gutenburg printing rush did the same. Talent will out. Or more accurately, lack of talent will be out; possession of creativity will be commercial. But freelancers? Maybe the future for them is particularly bright. Look at the syndicated writers on the US commercial net services now. Can one imagine one's favourite columnists available for sale one column at a time? "Let's see, today I'll buy a Fotheringham [Allan] and a Palmer [Vaughn - syndicated newspaper columnists based in BC]." The service is there now for a few well-established writers who earned their fees and following from the hardcopy media.

In the next millennium, writers will carve commercial swaths and flog words to a hungry public who will only know these authors as the creatures of the ether. New writers will emerge, marketing their wares globally while protecting their creative efforts and charging for it one hit at a time. Newspapers will be modular, barely recognizable things, sold in fragments, on good screens and downloadable in myriad forms, changing shape and substance before your eyes with new stories and commentary from freelancers and staffers alike. Exciting? Sure. Daunting? Yes, that too. So, how do we flog our wares, now that we don't call up stony-faced editors with queries any more? On the brighter side, no longer will we suffer the bad editing travesties of lesser talents. The dreadful old truth will no longer matter: those who can't write, edit. Editors will disappear like the T-Rex's they so often resemble.

We have seen the future.  It is us.  However, it needs work.  The plots will undoubtedly thicken.  A great deal is left to do in copywriting and marketing. He who creates order of this chaos will make many of the next billions. Let us at 'em.

- Brian Buchanan


HOUSEHOLD WORDS . . . in our infinite variety. . .

  • the prose mundane: verbal concrete and two by fours -- for reports, letters and writing on the routine and regular spin of company life verve and clarity that practical, speedy communications can handle.
  • paint and decor, in words: when bragging and vivid description go public -- paper and electronic brochures, video scripts and advertisements with gusto and guises --- lights, camera . . . we're in action!
  • rich tapestries and wordful art: when the commercial milieu draws up to its fullest cultural height, colourful ribbons of artful narrative spin their way across the pages and screen, looking a lot like serious literature, with a client in the star turn --- public relations releases, commissioned articles and extended stories reach deeper into the body politic and body commercial, looking to impress.

Brian Buchanan sells words. Just that. While he works with photographers and artists of various sorts on projects, he has one product line:  words, words and more words. Tis enough. Twill serve. Would you like him to save a good word or two for you?  Call him.  Go on.  The costs are surprisingly low.

Business Consultant - Freelance Writer, Vancouver's Brian Buchanan,  writes  for iwide range of business promotions-developments on and off-line

When that old wordsmithing is just getting you down, call an expert.  Brian Buchanan knows the alleys and byways of commerce and education.  He can get you there from where-ever your rhetoric may maroon you. 

Brian Buchanan. 
buchanantwo@gmail.com



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The Honorable Robert Hutchison, brings over 50 years court experience to disputes arbitrations resolutions, across BC.


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