Maddie Axelrod is trusted counsel to employers in all aspects of workplace law. She provides responsive, practical, and effective advice to various types of organizations that have personnel in Ontario.
Maddie's work includes managing day-to-day workplace issues, guiding foreign companies entering Canada, representing parties in corporate transactions and reorganizations, drafting and reviewing contracts and policies, advising on separations, assesing risk for personnel arrangements, and supporting employers with improving human rights and accommodations practices in their workplaces.
Employers in the broader public sector, including hospitals, school boards, and publicly-funded not-for-profits, turn to Maddie for advice regarding wage restraint and executive compensation laws.
Experience
- Conducting trademark infringement and domain dispute resolution.
- Assisting software developers in the negotiation, drafting and review of technology licenses and software development agreements.
- Acting as intellectual property counsel on a large oil sands development project with responsibility for all intellectual property matters including extensive negotiating and drafting of patent licenses.
- Financing transactions for numerous film and television projects, and providing legal advice to production companies in the media industries, including drafting and negotiating all production agreements.
- Reviewing packaging, labelling and advertising, drafting contest rules.
- Managing significant public authorities' and educational institutions' trademark portfolios, as well as a major amateur sport organization's trademark portfolio, brand licensing and protection actions and sponsorship agreements.
- Preparing franchise disclosure agreements and drafting, negotiating and reviewing franchise and distribution agreements for both franchisors and franchisees.
- Providing advice to litigation counsel on intellectual property matters, including infringement matters and ownership disputes.
- Negotiating, drafting and reviewing website and e-commerce-related policies and agreements including email- and Internet-use policies, website-use policies, privacy policies, blog and social networking site disclaimers and e-commerce sales agreements.
- Providing advice in the area of protection of trade secrets and confidential information and negotiating, drafting and reviewing confidentiality and non-disclosure agreements.
- Conducting trademark infringement and domain dispute resolution.
- Assisting software developers in the negotiation, drafting and review of technology licenses and software development agreements.
- Acting as intellectual property counsel on a large oil sands development project with responsibility for all intellectual property matters including extensive negotiating and drafting of patent licenses.
- Financing transactions for numerous film and television projects, and providing legal advice to production companies in the media industries, including drafting and negotiating all production agreements.
- Reviewing packaging, labelling and advertising, drafting contest rules.
- Managing significant public authorities' and educational institutions' trademark portfolios, as well as a major amateur sport organization's trademark portfolio, brand licensing and protection actions and sponsorship agreements.
- Preparing franchise disclosure agreements and drafting, negotiating and reviewing franchise and distribution agreements for both franchisors and franchisees.
- Providing advice to litigation counsel on intellectual property matters, including infringement matters and ownership disputes.
- Negotiating, drafting and reviewing website and e-commerce-related policies and agreements including email- and Internet-use policies, website-use policies, privacy policies, blog and social networking site disclaimers and e-commerce sales agreements.
- Providing advice in the area of protection of trade secrets and confidential information and negotiating, drafting and reviewing confidentiality and non-disclosure agreements.
