Stikeman Elliott bolsters its market-leading blog line-up

TORONTO, Dec. 7 /CNW/ - Stikeman Elliott LLP is pleased to announce the launch of its new Canadian Employment, Labour & Pension Law blog,www.CanadianEmploymentPensionLaw.com. The site includes breaking information and commentary in the field and is written and administered by the firm's leading lawyers in Toronto, Montréal and Calgary. The blog features both e-mail and RSS subscription and a dedicated @Cdn_Employment Twitter feed.

The CEPL blog marks the sixth in Stikeman Elliott's roster of timely, focused online resources. Its first, Canadian Securities Law Online (www.CanadianSecuritiesLaw.com), was unveiled in 2008, as the first major blog to be launched by any of Canada's leading business law firms. It was recognized as the top online business development initiative at the U.S.-based Legal Marketing Association's 2009 Your Honor awards. Other blogs related to Technology and Intellectual Property, Competition/Antitrust, Structured Finance and Energy law have followed, now joined by the CEPL blog. The firm's full listing of resources is found at blogs.stikeman.com.

The firm has made a defined commitment to technology as a means to share information and expertise relevant to its clients.

"Our clients expect targeted, trusted information and analysis in real-time, delivered in a way that's most convenient for them - online or through RSS, e-mail, Twitter or mobile devices," says Andrea Alliston, partner and Head of the firm's Toronto Knowledge Management Group. "A robust blog platform is one way we've been able to answer that call."

In 2011, Stikeman Elliott plans to bring additional practice group blogs online and, reflecting the firm's roots in Montréal and to support its clientele in Quebec, it will begin offering more French language blog content. The firm's current blogs feature selected bilingual postings and this presence will be expanded to include French web navigation and content.

The Canadian Employment, Labour & Pension Law blog is targeted to in-house corporate counsel, employment and pension counsel, HR professionals, management and executive and others impacted by employment law issues at organizations of all sizes. Some areas of focus include employee benefits, employment standards, executive compensation, human rights, occupational health and safety, termination, labour law and pensions issues.

ABOUT STIKEMAN ELLIOTT LLP

Stikeman Elliott LLP is one of Canada's leading business law firms, with offices in Toronto, Montréal, Ottawa, Calgary and Vancouver as well as in London, New York and Sydney. The firm is recognized as a Canadian leader in each of its core practice areas - corporate finance, M&A, corporate-commercial law, banking, employment, pensions and benefits, structured finance, real estate, tax, insolvency, competition/antitrust and business litigation - and is regularly retained by domestic and international companies in a wide range of industries including financial services, insurance, technology, telecommunication, transportation, manufacturing, mining, energy, insurance, infrastructure and retail.

The firm was named as one of the Canada's Top 100 Employers in 2009, 2010 and 2011, and as one of the 50 Best Employers in Canada for 2010 and 2011. It was further recognized in 2010 as one of Canada's Best Diversity Employers and Best Employers for New Canadians, and was also named as a Green 30 organization, a distinction presented to businesses who display a commitment to environmental sustainability in their operations.

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