How it all comes together…
Some of you may know that we’ve worked for years on the Diogaurdi Tax Law account, under the guidance of Patti Plant from CEO Media Group and lead designer Tony Delitala of Delitala Design. We’ve rolled out a number of sites for them and even developed an in-house web-based application to help them take their clients from first phone call to full service. We’ve also learned a thing or two about they guide their clients through what is often referred as tax amnesty, and seen firsthand the good resolutions to difficult issues that they can accomplish on behalf of their clients.
We’ve also had our hand in with some other legal clients along the way. Perhaps most notably, we had the wonderful experience of working with Jordan Furlong on the redesign of his Law21.ca legal blog—one of the best examples of great blogging in the country. Our launch with him was a pleasure from conception to completion, and we were thrilled for him when he was honoured with the Clawbie for Best Canadian Legal Blog of 2008.
Throw in our work with some local clients such as Oakville family lawyer, Thomas H. Marshall through our long-time friend Shannon Anderson, and it seems we’ve been spending more time with lawyers than O. J. Simpson. Which reminds me of my days as a callow youth at U of T…
My original intention when studying at the University of Toronto hundreds of years ago was to continue through to law school. Now as it turned out, I became an actor instead—much to the delight of my parents, who still go slack-jawed at the recollection of my announcement to leave school—but I always maintained an interest in law, justice and government. Over a 25-year career in the film industry, I played a few lawyers in films and on television shows (‘I’m not a lawyer, but I play one on tv!’), and once even had a shot at recreating a Supreme Court address in the Sue Rodriguez Story “At The End of the Day” portraying real-life lawyer Chris Considine (here’s a link to the real thing.).
And now here I am spending an inordinate amount of time working with the legal community, helping them flow out onto the interweb and loving every minute of it. It’s interesting how things have kind of come full circle.
My Mom always said I’d end up with lawyers.