Our Team and Our Strategic Partners
Richard G. Stock, M.A., FCIS, CMC
Richard
is the founding partner of Catalyst Consulting. He has been working with lawyers for more than
35 years - first as a client representative, then as a legal executive with a national firm,
and for the last 16 years as a legal services consultant. His practice is focused
on corporate/government legal departments. Consulting engagements cover the
spectrum of business strategy, organizational issues, performance and legal economics.
Richard is a frequent speaker at conferences and publishes regularly. He has completed more than 500 consulting
engagements for law departments, law firms and legal associations
in Canada, the U.S., Australia and Europe over the last 16 years.
Richard is a serious cook. His research extended to on-site sampling in Italy in 2004, Napa, Paris, Savannah and Australia in 2005, and New Zealand in 2006. He
has returned to Paris, Australia and New Zealand several times in the last few years in the never-ending quest for culinary appreciation.
rstock@catalystlegal.com
(416) 367-4447
Denis Lessard, B.B.A.
Denis has been with Catalyst since 1995,
mostly on a part-time basis. He currently supports us on wide
variety of consulting engagements. Among other things, he compiles
data from benchmarking and client satisfaction surveys and
participates in the analyses of law firm financial information and
outside counsel data. He is also very useful in supporting the team
when computer glitches occur on the road. Denis graduated from Bishop's University in the Eastern Townships with a Bachelor of Business Administration.
When he isn't busy
with his full-time work in Montreal or with Catalyst work, he
busies himself with his second career in the Canadian Forces
Primary Reserve as a Regimental Sergeant-major of the Royal
Canadian Hussars (Mtl).
dlessard@catalystlegal.com
Strategic
Partners
AIRPORTLAW.CA Brian Day, BA, LL.B.
FOCUSED LEGAL EXPERTISE AND
EXPERIENCE
Brian Day, one of the world's most experienced airport lawyers, offers a full range of aviation and airport law and business solutions. Brian knows airports and can provide high quality advice on airport law and regulation and airport business solutions.
AIRPORT LAW AND REGULATION
Practical, strategic legal advice:
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airport laws and regulations
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airport charges and policy-making
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airline and air traffic control relations
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privatization and infrastructure bids
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airport litigation
AIRPORT BUSINESS SOLUTIONS
30 years providing business transaction support at a strategic and operational level, including:
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improving commercial performance
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concession and service agreements
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procuring innovative IT systems
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strategic alliances and joint ventures
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parking and ground transportation
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airport infrastructure and
development
brianday@airportlaw.ca
604-681-0744
GCL Consulting
Peter Doolin
Peter spent 22 years in private practice in New Zealand and England, ten of them as a commercial/commercial property partner in Phillips Fox Auckland. His practise included acting for a number of institutions and corporate entities involved in large scale property and infrastructure development projects.
From 1996 to 2002, he was involved in various management roles within Phillips Fox New Zealand and Australia. They included roles as the management partner for the Auckland office, responsible for the operations of that office and its key client relationships. During 2002, he was responsible for the management of the New Zealand operations of Phillips Fox.
From September 2002 to July 2005 he was part of the senior management team at Te Runanga o Ngai Tahu, managing a team responsible for legal, policy and political strategy issues.
peter@gclconsulting.co.nz
Philip Griffiths
Philip’s career commenced as a lawyer working in private practice for 14 years at Corban Revell, Solicitors, Auckland, New Zealand. He was a partner for 8 years including 4 years as the managing partner and took a leading role in the development and management of the practice.
Since 1996 Philip has established a consultancy practice focussing on legal services management consulting, governance, change management and organisational development, general ‘trouble-shooting’ and dispute resolution.
philip@gclconsulting.co.nz
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