Lisa DeMarco Quoted in the Financial Post Regarding the Rise in Demand for Cleantech Experts
June 23rd, 2009The environmental lawyer, it turns out, is to the green age what the intellectual property (IP) and information technology (IT) lawyers were to the dot-com era. In the dot-com era, IP and IT types evolved from being an afterthought on transaction teams to being integral to their proper functioning.
Climate-change considerations have brought business law closer to environmental law than it has ever been.
Lisa DeMarco, who leads Macleod Dixon's Toronto energy practice, comes from a background that combines energy law with environmental law.
"That worked out perfectly because at its core, carbon constraint and carbon finance are primarily energy-productivity issues, not environmental-law issues," she said. "The question for clients is how much bang they're going to get for their energy-conservation efforts and how few bucks they can spend to do it."
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