Week 2 Guest Speaker: Brian Dartnell of EA

We are very lucky to have Brian Dartnell who is Senior Counsel at Electronic Arts as our Guest Speaker. Brian has been with EA for almost 9 years and this will be his third time speaking to the class. Brian will be giving us an overview of the myriad roles counsel plays within a very large video game production and publishing entity.

Brian’s bio (from Linked In):

Senior Counsel, Electronic Arts: November 2005 – Present, Vancouver, British Columbia

Responsible for the oversight and management of the legal team in Canada and the delivery of legal services to EA’s Canadian operations. Currently EA operates in 5 Provinces with more than 2000 full and part time employees based in Canada.

The Canadian legal team consists of four lawyers, a paralegal and an administrative assistant.

Responsible for providing advice, delivering training and assisting in the development of policy for internal clients on a broad range of legal issues including:

a) “People Matters” – employment, immigration, compensation and benefits, human rights, workers’ compensation, privacy, pension and benefits, and performer related issues;
b) “Corporate Matters” real estate, M&A, licensing, and ecommerce; and
c) Litigation – management of Canadian based litigation

Associate, Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP: April 2000 – November 2005 (5 years 8 months)

Employment and Labour Law Practice

Associate, Owen Bird Law Corporation: March 1998 – April 2000 (2 years 2 months)

General Litigation Practice”

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