John Gillies

Current

• Director of Practice Support at Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP

Past

• Knowledge Management Lawyer at McCarthy Tetrault
• Knowledge Director at McCarthy Tetrault
• Senior Counsel at CIBC

• Associate at McCarthy Tetrault
• Seconded Lawyer at Federal Government - National Energy Program
• Foreign counsel at Berlioz & Associes

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Education

• Université Panthéon Sorbonne (Paris I)
• Université Panthéon Sorbonne (Paris I)
• University of Toronto

• University of Toronto - University College

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Connections

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Industry

Legal Services

Websites

• My Company

John Gillies’s Summary

Knowledge management professional with experience at two large Canadian law firms. Frequent speaker on knowledge management issues.

John Gillies’s Specialties:

Knowledge management.

John Gillies’s Experience

• Director of Practice Support

  Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP

  (Partnership; 201-500 employees; Law Practice industry)

  October 2007 — Present (2 years 3 months)

• Knowledge Management Lawyer

  McCarthy Tetrault

  (Partnership; 1001-5000 employees; Law Practice industry)

  June 2000 — October 2007 (7 years 5 months)

• Knowledge Director

  McCarthy Tetrault

  (Law Practice industry)

  2000 — 2007 (7 years )

• Senior Counsel

  CIBC

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; CM; Banking industry)

  March 1985 — February 2000 (15 years )

• Associate

  McCarthy Tetrault

  (Partnership; 1001-5000 employees; Law Practice industry)

  November 1981 — March 1985 (3 years 5 months)

• Seconded Lawyer

  Federal Government - National Energy Program

  (Law Practice industry)

  1983 — 1983 (less than a year)

• Foreign counsel

  Berlioz & Associes

  (Partnership; 1-10 employees; Law Practice industry)

  July 1979 — September 1981 (2 years 3 months)

John Gillies’s Education

• Université Panthéon Sorbonne (Paris I)

  D.E.A. , French Corporate and Commercial Law , 1978 — 1979

• Université Panthéon Sorbonne (Paris I)

  D.E.A. , European Common Market Law , 1977 — 1978

• University of Toronto

  LL.B. , Law , 1972 — 1975

• University of Toronto - University College

  B.A. , Sociology and Philosophy , 1969 — 1972

Additional Information

John Gillies’s Websites:

• My Company

John Gillies’s Interests:

knowledge management, Web 2.0 technology, legal drafting

John Gillies’s Groups:

ILTA; Ark Conference

•    Knowledge Management Experts
•    Legal Blogging
•    Tweeple
•    Knowledge Management for Legal Professionals
•    Inmagic User Group - Canada by Sanjeev Arora
•    Legal Tweeters
•    Legal Innovation
•    Piano Plus - music in Canada's small and remote communities
•    Cassels Brock Alumni

John Gillies’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• expertise requests
• reference requests
• getting back in touch