Tech Lawyer, Torontonian, Entrepreneur and Programmer
My main job is helping people to build great companies. Often that involves figuring out what licenses apply, obtaining them, and helping to build out long-term compliance programs. Sometimes that involves international structures or working with lawyer colleagues in other jurisdictions. But every once in a while, someone hires me to investigate a large financial fraud. Typically these are…
I've written easily over a hundred terms of use agreements for my clients. When the lawyer's done, they send it to the client, and tell them to add a checkbox to their signup flow that says: "[ ] I agree to the Terms Of Use Agreement", with the agreement title being hyperlinked, usually to a PDF or sometimes a webpage. This is great. On day 1: everything works. This blog post is about what happens…
Kirkland Ellis, one of the world's richest law firms, claims to be investing $500m into building their own law AI platform. They're joining a rush of startups, VC, and law firms that are all building affordable legal services using AI. The dream is to replace expensive lawyers with cheap software. Or, if AI can't do the job on its own: to turn $200 lawyers into $1000 lawyers. Why can't $200…
This week I launched a new website for my law practice. It better captures how my practice is operating and has a nicer design, aided by ChatGPT v5.
On Monday, I posted about “Bask Wallet” , a crypto wallet I made that demonstrates the coming future of on-chain finance. Why is this interesting? What does this say about what's coming?
I've made a wallet called Bask Wallet ( https://baskwallet.com ). It enables people to instantly trade SOL/USDC/SPYx, with one-click model portfolios that are applied to the user's assets. It's on-chain, nearly instant, and trades cost about 1 cent via Raydium.
I've completed my series of blog posts about launching a token as a Canadian business , but it's 23000+ words, so probably most people in 2026 aren't going to be reading it, they're going to be LLMing it. Most of my clients are heavily using LLMs already, and I've even launched my own production Slack bots for contract pre-reviews, regulatory pre-review, etc.
Over the last two weeks, I've published 24000+ words on the topic of launching tokens in Canada. My goal with this series is to challenge the orthodox view that launching a token in Canada is illegal. For years, lawyers have advised their clients to steer clear of Canada. But is that advice well-founded? What's the real state of the law? Has anything changed over the last decade? My thesis is that…
This is the 10th article in my series on launching tokens in Canada. This post contains some of the practical tips that I've given to token projects over the last few years (all of which have not had any regulatory or private legal actions against them). The goal is to minimize risks while selling, both in the initial phases of a project and later. The latter part of this post concludes by…
The previous post in this series explains the rule for tokens: NRFM. But what does this mean in practice? What sorts of tokens can be launched in Canada? 14 Legal Token Types