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Lawyer and adjunct professor at UBC Peter A. Allard School of Law
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Jon Festinger, Q.C. (LL.B., B.C.L. 1980 (McGill University)) is a Vancouver, British Columbia based counsel and educator. Jon has taught media, communications, intellectual property, and corporate law topics at UBC’s Allard School of Law, for more than two decades, as well as occasionally teaching at the UBC Graduate School of Journalism. In addition Jon is a Professor of Professional Practice at Simon Fraser University, a faculty member at the Centre for Digital Media, and Honorary Industry Professor in the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London.

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