59: Agricultural Law (KJ Chong)

<p>In this conversation, we speak about the growing (pun intended) world of agricultural law, with KJ Chong, legal counsel from BroadGrain Commodities.</p> <p>Topics: food exporting and safety during COVID; the one-page agreement for the agricultural sector; new grain declarations in NAFTA 2.0 and our Ask-Me-Anything segment.</p> <p>⚫ How has COVID changed the food safety rules for companies that are shipping and receiving food products? (7:49)<br /> ⚫ How are agricultural lawyers able to draft complex legal agreements in just one page? (18:21)<br /> ⚫ How is the new NAFTA impacting the way that grain traders verify the quality of their own products? (27:35)<br /> ⚫ Our new Ask-Me-Anything segment, featuring five questions submitted by patrons of the Lawyered community (37:02)<br />   🔵 What are some of the unexpected elements about working in the agricultural law space? (37:44)<br />   🔵 What role does trust play when dealing with trading relationships among farmers? (39:23)<br />   🔵 What role do politics and trade patterns have on a lawyer's day-to-day work? (40:55)<br />   🔵 How can in-house legal counsel deal with under-resourced departments? (44:44)<br />   🔵 How can the food service industry bounce back post-COVID? (50:10)</p>