Lisa R. Lifshitz - Profile & Synopsis

Lisa specializes in information technology law, including preparing and negotiating software licence, reseller, distribution, development, outsourcing, system acquisition, maintenance and support agreements; and Internet-related agreements (including website development and maintenance, online retail, portal, online storage, hosting, collocation and infrastructure services agreements). She also provides advice to early-stage and emerging corporations, advises financings of IT companies, and drafts IT-related government procurement documentation. She holds LL.B., B.C.L. (McGill), M.A. (Soviet and Eastern European Studies) (Carleton) and B.A. (Carleton) degrees. She has been named as a “leading lawyer” by L’Expert in the Computer and IT Law and Technology Law fields. Lisa has authored numerous articles for such publications as The Law Times, The Lawyers Weekly, Internet and E-Commerce Law in Canada, e-Commerce Law Report and the BNA International World Data Protection Report and has given lectures on technology law issues for the Canadian IT Law Association (“IT.Can”), the Ontario Bar Association (OBA), the Law Society of Upper Canada, Insight and the Canadian Institute. Lisa was called to the Bar of Ontario in 1995. She is the Chair of the OBA Information Technology and E-Commerce Section and is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of e-Commerce Law & Strategy, a U.S. publication. She is also involved in the Cyberspace Committee of the Business Law Section (Working Groups on Electronic Contracting and Corporate Aspects of Information Technology) of the American Bar Association and is the Chair, Sub-Committee on Membership and Public Relations, for the Cyberspace Law Committee. Lisa currently sits as a Director of the International Technology Law Association (formerly the Computer Law Association) and IT.Can. She is a former Co-Publications Chair of the International Technology Law Association, a Past Chair of the Toronto Computer Lawyers Group and a past-Chair of IT.Can’s Ad Hoc Committee on E-Commerce. In her spare time, Lisa is a Director and the Vice-President of the Children’s Aid Society of Toronto.

Profile	Lisa R. Lifshitz Partner, Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP
Lisa specializes in information technology law, including preparing and negotiating software licence, reseller, distribution, development, outsourcing, system acquisition, maintenance and support agreements; and Internet-related agreements (including website development and maintenance, online retail, portal, online storage, hosting, collocation and infrastructure services agreements). She also provides advice to early-stage and emerging corporations, advises financings of IT companies, and drafts IT-related government procurement documentation. She holds LL.B., B.C.L. (McGill), M.A. (Soviet and Eastern European Studies) (Carleton) and B.A. (Carleton) degrees. She has been named as a “leading lawyer” by L’Expert in the Computer and IT Law and Technology Law fields. Lisa has authored numerous articles for such publications as The Law Times, The Lawyers Weekly, Internet and E-Commerce Law in Canada, e-Commerce Law Report and the BNA International World Data Protection Report and has given lectures on technology law issues for the Canadian IT Law Association (“IT.Can”), the Ontario Bar Association (OBA), the Law Society of Upper Canada, Insight and the Canadian Institute. Lisa was called to the Bar of Ontario in 1995. She is the Chair of the OBA Information Technology and E-Commerce Section and is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of e-Commerce Law & Strategy, a U.S. publication. She is also involved in the Cyberspace Committee of the Business Law Section (Working Groups on Electronic Contracting and Corporate Aspects of Information Technology) of the American Bar Association and is the Chair, Sub-Committee on Membership and Public Relations, for the Cyberspace Law Committee. Lisa currently sits as a Director of the International Technology Law Association (formerly the Computer Law Association) and IT.Can. She is a former Co-Publications Chair of the International Technology Law Association, a Past Chair of the Toronto Computer Lawyers Group and a past-Chair of IT.Can’s Ad Hoc Committee on E-Commerce. In her spare time, Lisa is a Director and the Vice-President of the Children’s Aid Society of Toronto.