Tech helps firms bear cross of compliance

Faced with the responsibility of complying with a myriad of global regulations governing business, companies are increasingly turning to technology to help with the task.

At the NetworkWorld Conference in Toronto on Monday, a panel of legal professionals discussed not only the role of technology in legislative compliance but also the importance of creating sound corporate policy to deal with new legislation.

For those organizations that do business with the higher levels of government, Kenneth Frankel, a Toronto-based lawyer with Hodgdon Russ LLP, said many companies