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ProfileJohn GilliesJohn Gillies is the Director of Practice Support at Cassels Brock. In this role, he collaborates with all firm members with a view to enhancing the culture of knowledge sharing through building appropriate organizational and technical structures to support the capture and dissemination of knowledge. Following his call to the bar in 1977, John studied both European Union and French corporate and commercial law for two years at the Sorbonne. From 1979 to 1981, he worked as a foreign associate with a Paris law firm that specialized in corporate and commercial matters, with a particular emphasis on international financing. Upon his return from Paris in 1981, John joined a large Toronto law firm as an associate, focusing on private company and banking transactions. In 1985, he left to join the Legal Division of CIBC. As Senior Counsel, he was responsible, among other things, for the bank’s lending work, the legal issues arising from the bank’s many branches, agriculture, franchising, and small business portfolios, and Aboriginal banking . He was also a member of the legal team spearheading the bank’s online banking services. In 2000, John returned to the firm where he had previously been an associate as Director of Knowledge Management. For seven years, he was the senior member of the knowledge management team, and was actively involved in the launch and subsequent advancing of the firm’s knowledge management project. Some of John’s conference presentations include:
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John is a director of The Piano Six Foundation and a member of the advisory board of the Taylor Statten Camping Bursary Fund. He plays jazz piano regularly and baroque cello occasionally. EducationB.A., University of Toronto, 1972 Call to the barOntario, 1977 Knowledge Management Articles Enterprise Search Implementation, Step 3: The Proof of Concept Enterprise Search Implementation, Step 2: Picking The Right Search Engine Establishing Business Requirements for Enterprise Search Selection In The News John Gillies Authors Enterprise Search Implementation, Step 4: Database Cleanup (Hiding What You Shouldn’t Be Able To Find) in ILTA KM Blog Series Enterprise Search - Can a Great Search Solution Expose Risk Issues in the Firm? John Gillies Reviews Enterprise Search Implementation on ILTA KM Blog Presentations John Gilles Participates in 2011 Penn Law Panel Discussion Commercial Agreements Legal Marketing On-The-Go |