Lawyer with Practical Commercial Litigation Expertise

Duncan Milne LLB, CIAPP-C

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OBJECTIVE

To support an organization by applying practical critical legal thinking to corporate matters.

Utilize a proven ability to apply broad connections to specific contexts, resulting in

innovative, functional, and expedient solutions.

Bridge understanding of operational and commercial issues by building strategies or negotiating to a specific outcome.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Advocacy

Regulatory Compliance

Dispute Resolution and Negotiations

Privacy Practices

Commercial Litigation

Estate Planning

Commercial Advice

Research and Drafting

Contract Management and Drafting

General Commercial Legal

CAREER EXPERIENCE

Stepper Law – Lawyer – November 30, 2024 – Present

Stepper Law is a litigation firm, tailoring practical solutions for clients involved in a variety of commercial, estate, and criminal matters.

Role description:

General litigation, drafting, strategy development, and client management.

Conducting all aspects of litigation, including questioning of witnesses, preparation of witnesses, managing court applications, and negotiating various aspects of matters including settlement, agreed facts, and consent orders.

Research and drafting of questions of law, procedural rules, and rules of evidence.

Court appearances across a range of courts and matters.

Youth en Route – Cyclist in Residence – May 1, 2024 – September 30, 2025

Youth en Route is a not-for-profit organization, supporting youth to be able to choose active travel, and in the process create youth that are autonomous, healthy, and connected to the community.

Role description:

Reporting directly to the Executive Director providing strategic and organizational support.

Managing and maintaining relationships with educators and community partners.

Delivering in classroom and on bike instruction, training, and support to Youth en Route programs.

Grant writing and development of programming elements and standardizing procedures.

PMBIA (Professional Mountain Bike Instructors Association) – Executive Director (Interim) – November 10, 2023 – April 30, 2024

PMBIA is a not-for-profit organization, registered in BC, delivering standardized training and certification to mountain bike instructors internationally.

Role description:

Reporting directly to the Board of Directors providing strategic and organizational leadership, while supporting members and pursuing strategic growth.

Managing and maintaining legacy relationships with founders and industry partners.

Establishing and managing the interaction between members, external stakeholders including sport organizations, industry, suppliers, resorts and tour operators to promote PMBIA values and interests.

Key Goals:

Normalize financial functions, increasing transparency, line of sight, and predictability.

Establish communications channels with members to better understand how the organization can support them as instructors and their businesses.

Developing a functional strategic plan facilitating sustainable expansion for the organization into key or emerging markets.

Review and bolster existing policies (and creating new policies when required) to improve the functional scope of the organization.

Independent Contractor 2017 – 2023

Role description:

Supporting and providing privacy practices pertaining to financial services clients.

Supporting and providing privacy practices pertaining to health services clients.

Providing functional direction and advice to integrated health services clients, facing data sharing, data management, and confidentiality issues across their practice groups.

Facilitating and conducting Privacy Impact Assessment Reviews, developing practices reflecting such reviews, and supporting investigations as required.

STARS (Shock Trauma Air Rescue Service) – Privacy and Contracts Lead – January 2019 – April 2020

STARS is a Western Canadian based, not for profit, air ambulance service with an annual operating budget of >$60MM across six bases.

Role description:

Reporting directly to the CFO and Chief Medical Officer (CMO) as sole internal resources providing internal direction and reporting team regarding privacy requests, privacy breach investigations, training, and related matters.

Providing support for internal teams pertaining to contractual issues with suppliers, request for proposals (RFP), employment, real estate, capital programs, fund raising activities, and other corporate operations.

Managing the interaction between external counsel and internal stakeholders across a variety of matters and legal issues.

Key Achievements:

Streamlining privacy disclosure practices to ensure better alignment with Privacy Commissioners decision reports.

Developing a functional privacy workflow process “Privacy-By-Design” for implementation by the IT Services team, requiring new workflow programs. Workflows that required the continued access of sensitive information to internal stakeholders, depending on their role, while mitigating risk of privacy breaches.

Supporting internal team members during external investigations, interviews, or information requests, including fatality investigations, RCMP Major Crimes and patient reviews, by providing direct support and guidance to process.

Updating documentary practices for public tours by patients and their families, to facilitate access to health information, crew members, to be consistent with Privacy Commissioners’ expectations, while remaining responsive to the public STARS services.

INTERNATIONAL CAREER EXPERIENCE June 2010 – February 2018

Spindletop Legal & Commercial Solutions – Principal Advisor – February 2015 – February 2018

Spindletop is a New Zealand based multi-jurisdictional consulting enterprise, specializing in bespoke engagements pertaining to resource extraction, the investigation and development of commercial opportunities, and community outreach.

Role description:

Providing research and drafting support to client projects.

Direct interaction with clients, providing reporting and explanation of regulatory regimes and their implications.

Project budgeting, billing, and invoicing.

Key Achievements:

Supporting transactions exceeding $500 M by conducting document review and due diligence reporting for $578 M asset transaction

Providing timely review and reporting to meet client needs and transaction deadlines for local municipal governments, multi-national energy companies, and local indigenous group clients.

Supporting principal partner in regional meetings.

Providing operational coverage for consultancy while principal partner was overseas.

Auld Brewer Mazengarb & McEwan – Solicitor. June 2013 – April 2014

A full service, regional New Zealand law firm, providing a range of employment, litigation support, estate planning, and real property legal advice to private, commercial, and regional government clients.

Role description:

Providing research and drafting support to client projects.

Direct interaction with clients, providing legal advice on a range of issues, focusing on the client’s specific needs and circumstances.

Drafting fortnightly articles for external publication addressing common legal issues that the community may encounter.

Key Achievements:

Providing multi-jurisdictional presentation to the municipal government regarding oil and gas practices, public consultation standards, and best practices, including the limitations such approaches might have for their home jurisdiction.

Competent, bespoke project support across a variety of legal issues, for local municipal governments, multi-national energy companies, and private high worth clients.

Publishing articles pertaining to orphaned wells, abandonment practices and regulations, compulsory pooling applications, and similar multi-jurisdictional analysis of regulations.

RBS Morgans Limited - In-House Law Clerk (Overseas Qualified Practitioner), June 2010 – September 2011

Australia’s largest full-service retail stockbroking and financial planning organization with over 300,000 clients, 490 advisors and 840 staff operating from 53 offices in all states and territories, servicing the needs of private and corporate clients, including Initial Public Offerings (IPOs).

Role description:

Reviewing, researching, and resolving client complaints and alleged breaches of Australian Securities and Investment Commission regulations and directives.

Providing direction and advice to internal clients, providing legal advice on a range of issues, focusing on the client’s specific needs and circumstances, in the context of probate, securities, anti-money laundering and terrorism funding, and consumer protection laws.

Managing dispute resolution processes including direct informal negotiations, as well as mediated and arbitrated settlements.

Key Achievements:

Negotiating consumer complaint settlements, avoiding potential >$1M (AUD) class action liability.

Settling dispute with Trustee who failed to discharge their duties to the trust, resulting in avoiding liability for RBS Morgans. Approximate value $120,000.00 AUD

Borden Ladner Gervais LLP - Commercial Litigation / Regulatory Associate, 2008 – 2010

Working within a full service, national law firm, providing a range of litigation services in the natural resources, administrative law, and insolvency practice group to private, commercial, and regional government clients.

Role description:

Providing research and drafting support to client projects.

Direct interaction with clients, providing legal advice on a range of issues, focusing on the client’s specific needs and circumstances, including attending court or before administrative or investigative bodies.

Researching and supporting partners files and matters.

Key Achievements:

Multiple court appearances in a range of commercial, consumer protection, insolvency, and appeal matters.

Developing a personal clients and a reputation for practical, effective legal solutions for small businesses.

EDUCATION, MEMBERSHIPS, AND VOLUNTEER

Professional Mountain Bike Instructor’s Association (PMBIA) Level 1 Coach 2021

Mountain Bike Coach:

Rundle Mountain Cycling Club (RMCC) 2022 – 2023 Seasons

RMCC Rampage XCO program Head Coach 2024 Season

Alberta Bicycle Association Junior Projects Coach 2023 – 2024 Seasons

Cyclemeisters Calgary MTB Coach 2022 – 2024 Seasons

Flow Mountain Bike Adventures 2021 – 2022 Seasons

Dirt Series Level 2 Coach 2022 Season

Program Leader Wellspring Alberta “Come Ride With Us” 2023 – 2024 Seasons

Bike Calgary Board of Directors / Director at Large 2023 – 2025

Shaganappi Nordic Operations Society (SNO) Fat Bike Instructor 2022 – 2024

PMBIA Board of Directors / Director at Large 2022 – 2023

National Coaching Certification Program (NCCP) 2024

Admission Law Society of New Zealand 2013

Admission Law Society of New South Wales, Australia 2011

Admission Law Society of Alberta 2007 (re-admitted December 2024)

Bachelor of Laws University of Calgary 2007

Alberta Bar Association – 2007 – Present

Standard First Aid & Advanced Wilderness First Aid (40 hours)

REFERENCES

Available Upon Request

PUBLICATIONS

The Death of Rock and Roll, The Impossibility of Time Travel, and Other Lies (novel) Amazon

And Then They Ruined Everything (novel) Amazon

Various short stories (fiction)

Various contributions – Ski and Bike Magazine

New Reporting Obligations for Oil and Gas Companies with Canadian Operations or Ownership. Energy News New Zealand

LPG Royalties In New Zealand, Energy News New Zealand

What Is Unitization? Energy News New Zealand

Orphaned wells - Opportunity or Liability? Energy News New Zealand\

Farmer Freddy Articles (various scenarios). Daily News Taranaki, Stuff.co.nz

Alberta Law Review 2005 (editor)

oOrganize, coordinate, and We’re looking for world-class talent to join our diverse, passionate, and purpose-driven team. If you’re dynamic, willing to take action, collaborative, thoughtful, and have deep technical privacy experience, you’ll fit right in with the team that helps League earn and deserve customer trust.

oIn this role, you will:

oProactively monitor regulatory, industry trends and new requirements in the data privacy space to ensure industry-leading privacy practices.

oServe as an internal subject matter expert on privacy across the organization.

oAdvise business lines on application of privacy requirements, development of controls and monitoring, remediation/corrective action of compliance breakdowns, and changes in law or regulation.

oManage contractual review processes related to data, including tracking data processing agreements and data protection terms in agreements.

oManage privacy requests, such as deletion requests, and develop consumer-friendly education materials and FAQs on data privacy rights.

oDevelop and report metrics and KPIs related to privacy and data governance.

oAbout you:

o5+ years of experience in a privacy, legal, or compliance role

oThorough experience with and understanding of HIPAA, PIPEDA, GDPR, CCPA, COPPA, and other privacy regulations.

oProvide legal support to the Upstream operating segment, including Potash and Nitrogen production sites on a wide variety of matters, including: procurement of goods and services, mining, and construction and occupational health and safety, pre-litigation resolution of contract disputes, access to information requests, real estate, and environment - in alignment with Nutrien’s business needs

oWork closely with procurement, operations, and other stakeholders including other segments of the legal department

oProvide day-to-day legal advice in support of operational segment involving mining and chemical manufacturing to produce agricultural inputs

oDraft and negotiate a variety of contracts, including supply chain contracts and construction contracts

oProvide legal support on strategic business objectives and initiatives in the Upstream operating segment

oProvide legal support to operations on regulatory matters, including safety, health and environmental matters

oSupport real estate transactions in the Upstream operating segment

oAssist in retaining and managing external counsel as necessary

oComply with all Company standards, policies and procedures pertaining to appropriate conduct for employees, including the Statement of Core Values and Code of Business Conduct; the Respect in the Workplace Policy; Safety, Health and Environment Policies; and any other applicable standards, policies and procedures as implemented and/or revised by the Company or by legislation

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oWhat you will bring:

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oA law degree, and be a member in good standing with the Law Society of Saskatchewan and Alberta

oMust have:

olicense to work in Saskatchewan or Alberta (and obtain dual licensing to work in both); or

odual license to work in Saskatchewan and Alberta

o5-8 years of post-bar call legal experience in private practice or in-house (in-house experience is preferred)

oExcellent communication and drafting skills

oExperience in supply chain matters and with agriculture, mining or heavy industry would be an asset

oExperience in providing legal advice on safety, health and environmental matters would be an asset

oExperience in resolving pre-litigation contract disputes, and real estate matters would be an asset

oAbility to collaborate with a variety of people, job functions and business segments within the organization, and externally advance business goals

oAbility to identify legal risks and provide risk adjusted advice

oWillingness to learn and understand strategic and operational aspects of the business, and adapt in a dynamic business environment.

oAbility to handle multiple and varied legal projects with competing deadlines

oHaving an ‘owners mindset” and willingness to take initiative

oExcellent judgment and people skills

oWillingness to engage in travel

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