Canadian Lawyer InHouse

19 CANADIANLAWYERMAG.COM/INHOUSE JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2019 A fter the retirement last year of long- time Xerox Canada general counsel Dorothy Quann, the company named Daniel Bourque and Sacha Fraser co- lead counsel for Xerox Canada and its subsidiaries here. Bourque and Fraser support the Canadian operations as well as some business units in the United States. Bourque's work is centred around corporate commercial work — all enterprise transactions — and is corporate secretary and chief privacy offi cer for the Xerox entities in Canada. Fraser handles litigation, employment and procurement, ethics and corporate security. "We work very closely with one another, so you really have two lawyers collaborating and overseeing the governance of the organization from a legal standpoint," says Bourque, adding that they both report into the U.S. but are not actively managed from the U.S. "We both play to our strengths. What Dan handles is very clear and what I handle is very clear to our clients; there is no am- information, yet banks and credit unions have not done a great job of actually using the data. I would be able to tell from your banking data how old you are, where you work and your spending patterns. Do you have insurance? Are you having a baby? Do you need a registered education savings plan? How much savings should you have at age 30 versus age 40? If you wanted to buy a home, what path should you be on? Law fi rms have all those transactions and billable hours recorded, too, and yet they don't do anything with the data — they tell you they can't predict how many hours it will take to do that transaction or that piece of litigation. INHOUSE: How do you manage your team internally? Are you looking to expand? SKAKUN: We have 12 lawyers at Coast Capital and we will be looking to expand that — to enhance the corporate development, regulatory and cyber side. The level of complexity we're dealing with takes it up a notch as we move to expand into other provinces. I believe lawyers need to be in the business and understand the business, so I think it's important to understand that. Having been at a fi ntech, I saw that a lot. IH SACHA FRASER DANIEL BOURQUE Co-lead counsel Xerox Canada PATTI TEETER Law Clerk Location: Toronto Department: Two lawyers and paralegal Time in role: Bourque, seven years; Fraser, 18 years PHOTO: JOHN HRYNIUK SACHA FRASER DANIEL BOURQUE PATTI TEETER

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