Overview

Nolan Ritzel is a Calgary-based lawyer working as a Fractional General Counsel through Goodlawyer and under Ritzel Law. His career has included private practice at BLG, in-house roles as General Counsel and Chief Risk Officer at DC Bank, and Associate General Counsel at Shopify. He has described the move to fractional work as a way to combine legal work, flexibility and a career designed around the work he enjoys. In his Goodlawyer conversation, he discusses the transition from BigLaw to in-house leadership and then to a fractional model. His current work supports growing businesses with commercial and strategic legal advice while allowing him to work across more than one client relationship. Public professional activity also references commercial agreements, legal technology and AI tools as complements to his fractional practice. Nolan's background combines commercial law, general counsel work, business judgment and technology-enabled legal operations. He is based in Calgary, Alberta.

Practice Areas

• Corporate and Commercial Law
• Fractional General Counsel
• Legal Operations

Bar Information

Called to the bar: 2014 (AB)