Mr. James C. Bliwas This is Me

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1. 1. ITworldcanada.com - Canada’s Information Technology Resource

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   Published on: 3/22/2002   Last Visited: 3/22/2002

   According to Jim Bliwas, president of Toronto-based The Group Orion Inc., changing business cards is the least of a company's concerns.
   
   "It's a combination of selling the steak as well as the sizzle," he said. "I have a client that is going through the rebranding exercise right now. They have an ad agency not only working on what face the rebrand will put out to the public, but on what will be rolled out internally."
   
   Communicating with staff is critical because they are the points of contact with the customer and will be the people who eventually sell the steak, Bliwas said.

2. 2. News Media Hub

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   Published on: 2/11/2001   Last Visited: 9/14/2003

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3. 3. workopolis.com - Career Focus - Legal

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   Published on: 7/10/2000   Last Visited: 8/13/2000

   That is guaranteed work before [ the law firms ] know if the student can write a simple will, says James Bliwas, president of Group Orion, a Toronto consulting firm.
   
   Mr. Bliwas says with U.S. firms snatching up top Canadian students, law offices here do not have available the same amount of legal prodigies as in the past.
   
   But, he acknowledges, one problem is the major Canadian law schools -- York University's Osgoode Hall, Montreal's McGill University and the University of Toronto, for example -- are not raising enrolment enough to make up for the southern emigration of young lawyers.
   
   Furthermore, he says, when major U.S. firms come to Canadian campuses to extol the virtues of working on Wall Street, they be not telling the whole story.
   
   Mr. Bliwas says students need to ask intelligent questions when the major U.S. firms try to woo them with copious cash.
   
   Yes, they will make $ 100, 000 and up in the U.S., but they are not telling them how their lives will be different on Wall Street than it would be on Bay Street, Mr. Bliwas says.
   
   According to Mr. Bliwas, a lawyer in a Top 10 Canadian law firm clocks between 1, 700 to 1, 800 billable hours a year, but on Wall Street, they are looking at 2, 200 to 2, 400 hours.
   
   that be seven days a week, nine to 10 hours a day -- and that be billable time, that be not including lunch and chatting in the hallways, he says. They are also less likely to make partner in the United States. People are being seduced by making higher salaries, but students are making a real lifestyle choice..
   
   Pascal de Guise, an articling student in the Montreal office of Goodman Phillips and Vineberg, says he be aware of the lifestyle sacrifices he would face by moving to the United States, and he be not prepared to do so.
   
   i be not just [ basing ] my choice on compensation levels.