I am senior corporate counsel at Stantec, a Canada-based global design and engineering firm. Before moving in-house in 2017, I spent more than fifteen years in private practice, principally in Toronto, at firms large and small. While my interests and practice have covered many of areas of law - commercial transactions, complex and cross-border disputes, construction, environmental law, and regulatory and administrative matters, among others - the common thread for me has always remained how best to apply legal skills to effectively and efficiently solve real-world problems.