Does a lawyer who holds corporate records constitute a lawyer for the corporation?
Alberta, Canada
The following excerpt is from Amack v. AW Holdings Corp., 2010 ABQB 759 (CanLII):
In Friesen v. Gimli & District Metis Assn. Inc. [1997] M.J. No. 396, at paragraph 16 it was held that the fact that a lawyer held corporate records and was the registered office for the company, did not in itself constitute the firm as counsel for the corporation.
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