Anthony (Tony) Morris
Tony assists technology suppliers and users in structuring, negotiating and implementing technology-related corporate and commercial transactions, including business process and information technology outsourcing and service agreements, application service provider arrangements, competitive procurements, investment and finance and the reworking of information technology relationships. Tony provides guidance on technology licensing and development, electronic commerce, privacy, product acquisition, reseller and distribution arrangements and other commercial transactions. He has also advised clients on issues of copyright, trade secrets, and trade-marks and is a registered Trade-mark Agent. Throughout his years of practice, he has gained experience in franchising, real estate conveyancing, commercial lending and general corporate matters.
Tony has lectured regularly on various aspects of outsourcing, technology, privacy and electronic commerce law. He was past chair of the Intellectual Property Section (Northern Alberta) of the Canadian Bar Association, and is currently a member of the Licensing Executive Society, Intellectual Property Institute of Canada, Canadian IT Law Association, Computer Law Association and Calgary Council on Advanced Technology.
In 2003, Tony graduated from Canada's first Master of Laws (LLM) program specializing in the business and law of e-Business, offered through Osgoode Hall Law School. His major paper was entitled The Electronic Health Record in Alberta: An Introduction to Business and Legal Infrastructures and Issues, a subject chosen due to his extensive work with Regional Health Authorities in Western Canada and their development of electronic health record strategies.
Another important facet of Tony's practice is education law, and he heads a multi-disciplinary service delivery team for a major public school system.
- Osgoode Hall Law School, LL.M,
specializing in the business and law of e–Business, 2003 - University of Alberta, LL.B., 1990
- University of Alberta, MBA, 1989
- University of Alberta, B.A., 1984
- Alberta, 1991
- Member, Alberta Bar Association
- Member, Canadian Bar Association
- Member, Licensing Executives Society
- Member, Intellectual Property Institute of Canada (IPIC)
- Board of Directors, Canadian IT Law Association
- Presentation, "Managing the "End Game" of Outsourcing", Canadian Bar Association Conference, January 2008
- Presentation, "A Teacher's Employment Contract; The Legislative Landscape", Lorman Conference, November 2007
- Presentation, "Managing the "End Game" of Outsourcing", CORE Conference, January 2007
- Presentation, "E-Discovery: Records Management Policies", LESA Conference, November 2006
- Presentation, "Governance of Complex Outsourcing Relationships", CORE Conference, May 2006
- Article, "Public Sector Outsourcing", Canadian Privacy Law Review, April 2006
- Presentation, "Virtual Hell" Panel Presentation, Canadian Bar Association Conference, March 2006
- Article, "The Electronic Health Record in Canada: The First Steps", Health Law Review, 2005
- Presentation, "Legal Considerations of Health Digital Data Management", Second International Conference, March 2005
- Presentation, "Outsourcing and the Electronic Health Record", INSIGHT Conference, December 2004
- Presentation, "The Electronic Health Record: A Panacea for Canada's Health Care System", IT Law Association Conference, October 2004
- The business process outsourcing of the human resource management function of a major publicly funded education institution, on behalf of the purchaser, with a transaction value of approximately $75 million, thought to be the first outsourcing transaction of its kind in Canada
- The business process outsourcing of the customer billing and related functions of a significant utility provider, on behalf of the service provider, with a transaction value of approximately $400 million
- The creation of a shared data centre for the processing of electronic health record information, on behalf of numerous Alberta Regional Health Authorities.
- Designated as a "Best Lawyer in Canada", 2009
- Information Technology
- Intellectual Property
- Listed in the Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory 2008 as a Leading Practioner, Technology
- Designated as a "Best Lawyer in Canada", 2007
- Information Technology Law
- Intellectual Property Law
