What it's like to be a trade lawyer amid the tariff chaos

Open this photo in gallery: Orlando Silva, partner at Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP, at the office in Toronto, on March 14.Christopher Katsarov/The Globe and Mail Before, people never took much interest in what trade lawyer Zvi Halpern-Shavim did for a living. At dinner parties, whenever someone would start asking about people's jobs, Mr. Halpern-Shavim would watch the other guests' eyes glaze over when he explained he specialized in indirect taxes, duties and customs law. But not anymore. "Suddenly, trade law is interesting for people," chuckled Mr. Halpern-Shavim, the head of the international trade group at Blake, Cassels & Graydon…