Can a solicitor be characterized as an employee of the company he represents?
Alberta, Canada
The following excerpt is from BTK Holdings Ltd. v. Greater Edmonton Development Corporation, 1992 ABCA 238 (CanLII):
While the Appellant originally argued before the Master below that a solicitor could be characterized as an employee of the company he or she represents, he abandoned that argument before us, no doubt because of the decision in Kirdeikis and Kirdeikis v. Campbell Brothers, supra.
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