Advocacy Matters - March 2019

ADVOCACY MATTERS
The Advocates’ Society
MARCH 2019

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CONTENTS
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From the Editor
Lauren Tomasich, Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
Diversity In The Profession
Sarah Armstrong, Fasken
Signature Conference
Sabrina A. Lucenti, Dooley Lucenti LLP
TAS Report
Jeffrey J. Kroeker, B.A. (Hons.), J.D, Civis Law LLP
International Women’s Day
Yola S. Ventresca, Lerners LLP
The Future Of Advocacy
Brent J. Arnold, Gowling WLG
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Editor: Lauren Tomasich, Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP, Ltomasich@osler.com
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FROM THE EDITOR
COMING UP
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The season for change
Lauren Tomasich, Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
Our spring issue of Advocacy Matters carries
with it a spirit of change – which is perfect for
this time of year. Change is indeed a foundation
of our profession. The law evolves to
reflect societal realities, and we as litigators
are catalysts and vehicles for such change,
through, among other things, creative legal
arguments made zealously on behalf of our
clients. However, there are different types of
change that are equally, if not more important
– and this issue of Advocacy Matters is
particularly inspirational on this front.
Sarah Armstrong recounts the #Robing-
Room revolution, which is an encouraging
example of female advocates using social
media to call attention to the disparity in
the male and female robing rooms at Osgoode
Hall. And what I have gone so far
as to call a “revolution” is less about the
space itself, but the symbolism of it all,
and the importance of calling attention to
these issues – otherwise, things simply do
not change. Even if we like to think that
things are “better” than the past, there are
persistent and developing challenges that
women and diverse members of the profession
face – which are aptly captured in
Yola Ventresca’s article about international
women’s day, alongside a powerful summary
of the historical origins of this annual
March milestone.
Change comes in other forms in our profession,
and does not need to take the form
of new law from an appellate court or the
galvanizing of a societal movement to impact
our work as litigators. Technological
advancements and ways to adjudicate cases
more efficiently and effectively are top
of the agenda for the Toronto Commercial
List. Jeffrey Kroeker recounts the remarks
of the Commercial List lead judge, Justice
Hainey at the annual TAS “Evening with the
Commercial List”, with the central message
being that the Commercial List is committed
to being business-minded and practical in
its approach to dispute resolution. Brent Arnold
also summarizes the Commercial List’s
new “Digital Hearing Workspace”. Technology
was also a key theme at the personal
injury bar’s annual TAS “Tricks of the Trade”
conference, which Sabrina Lucenti reviews.
This is all important and productive change
that facilitates effective dispute resolution.
With that, here’s hoping that this spring
brings positive change to our profession
and to all of your practices – and hoping
this edition of Advocacy Matters showcases
that we are off to a good start.
APR 8
Celebrating Advocacy
Reception with
The Hon. Justice
Suzanne Côté
APR 16
Negotiation
Strategies for
Litigators
(Toronto)
APR 4
Finding Your Hook:
How To Develop a
Winning Case
(Toronto)
APR 9
Women in
Litigation
Symposium
(Calgary)
APR 17
Commercial
Litigation PG:
Diversity & Inclusion
Breakfast
(Toronto)
APR 4
Tax Litigation:
Settlement
Conference in Tax
Litigation
(Toronto)
APR 12
Insolvency
Litigation
Toronto
APR 8
Women in
Litigation
Symposium
(Vancouver)
APR 10
Women in
Litigation
Symposium
(Edmonton)
APR 12
L’Art Du
Contre-interrogatoire
(Montreal)

BENCHER ELECTION 2019
Lawyer Candidates Outside Toronto
Lawyer Candidates from Toronto
Be an informed voter. Get to know the TAS Members who are running for Bencher in 2019.
The 2019 Bencher election for the Law Society of Ontario will take place from mid-April to April 30,
2019. On this page we showcase the TAS members who are running in the 2019 election.
Full information on the election process, voting, etc can be found on the
Law Society of Ontario website.
R. Lee Akazaki
John Callaghan
Jeff Cowan
Signa A. Daum
Shanks
Jeremy Devereux
Rebecca C. Durcan
Nathan Baker -
Central East
François N. Baril -
East
Peter Beach -
East
Jack Braithwaite -
Northeast -
Acclaimed
Dianne G. Corbiere -
Central East
Teresa Donnelly -
Southwest
Julian Falconer
Joseph Groia
Paul Le Vay
Atrisha Lewis
Samuel Marr
William C. McDowell
Etienne Esquega -
Northwest
Jacqueline Horvat -
Southwest
Michael Lerner -
Southwest
Cecil Lyon -
East
James John Mays -
Southwest
Jorge E. Pineda -
Central South -
Pending
Isfahan Merali
Malcolm Mercer
David Milosevic
Barbara Murchie
Sean Robichaud
Jonathan Rosenthal
M. Stephen Rastin -
Central East
Andrew Spurgeon -
Central South
Deepa Tailor -
Central West
Claire Wilkinson -
Central West
Mirilyn R. Sharp
Julia Shin Doi
Megan Shortreed
Darryl Singer
Peter C. Wardle

The Catzman Award
for Professionalism & Civility
Throughout his distinguished career both as an advocate
and a judge, Justice Marvin Catzman earned an exemplary
reputation for his knowledge of the law, his integrity, his
fairness, his civility and his dedication to the highest ideals of
the legal profession. He inspired younger lawyers by example
and contributed to legal education by writing and lecturing
with great insight and humour. He was unfailingly generous to
colleagues with his time and expertise. Justice Catzman’s
career was characterized by all of the qualities that are
encompassed by the terms professionalism and civility.
The successful candidate for the Catzman Award will be
a person who exemplifies these qualities.
Call For Nominations
The Catzman family, The Advocates’ Society and the Chief Justice of Ontario’s Advisory
Committee on Professionalism are pleased to call for nominations for an award in memory
of the late Justice Marvin A. Catzman, recognizing individuals who have demonstrated
a high degree of professionalism and civility in the practice of law. The Award will be
presented by the Chief Justice at the Opening of the Courts in September 2019 and
acknowledged at The Advocates’ Society End of Term Dinner in June 2020.
Deadline Friday, May 31, 2019
Please fill out the following nomination form and attach the nominee’s C.V. and two
(2) letters of support (to a maximum of two (2) pages).
For questions, please contact Rachel Stewart, Events and Awards Manager,
at rachel@advocates.ca
SUBMIT NOMINATION
DIVERSITY IN THE PROFESSION
The recently successful
Osgoode Hall #RobingRoom
campaign is just
the beginning
Sarah Armstrong, Fasken
On February 7, after spending three days in court at Osgoode Hall with a fierce group of women
litigators fighting for pay equity and equality rights, Fay Faraday tweeted photos of the then “Lady
Barristers” sign on the women’s robing room and of her colleagues crammed inside the room with
the comment: “But after 25+ years doing this, I still need to walk past the so-2-centuries-ago #LadyBarrister
sign & there are still only 12 lockers for women litigators at 130 Queen St. in T.O. where the Court of
Appeal, Divisional Court and Superior Court all sit. First thing every woman litigator who came in this week
said was “are all the lockers full again?”. Answer: eye roll, sigh ... yes. The lawyers for just 3 of 6 parties on
ONE case fill more than half the robing room. I hear the men have 75+. #RoomOfOurOwn”.
Enter fearless advocate for equality and #WomenInLaw and prolific tweeter, Breanna Needham.
In less than 24 hours following Faraday’s tweets, Needham and a group of allies had: (i) produced a
Twitter photo display of the shocking disparity between the two robing rooms; and, (ii) developed
a petition with over 500 signatures asking the Law Society of Ontario to retire the “Lady Barristers”
robing room at Osgoode Hall in favour of a unisex space where the men’s robing room is.
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WOMEN
in Litigation Symposium
The Advocates’ Society’s award-winning Women in Litigation
Symposium is coming to Vancouver, Calgary and Edmonton this
spring. Join us for this unique networking conference designed
for female litigators where you will receive candid advice and
practical strategies for your life and practice as a litigator.
To learn more or register visit www.advocates.ca
Reactions from fellow women
litigators on twitter who, like me,
had just seen photos of the men’s
robing room for the first time included
the following: Demoralizing.
Gutted. OMG. Just silly. We’ve
been had. Are you freaking kidding
me??!? [and a few more explicit
turns of phrase which I will not
quote here, but you get the idea].
LEAF tweeted: “That the disparity
between robing rooms surprised
so many (after existing for so many
years!) is indicative of how privilege
works - maintained through secrecy.
Imagine what else we’ll discover
if we pull back the curtain on other
inequalities through #paytransparency,
etc!”. Many male advocates
expressed surprise on Twitter as
well, many of them evidently having
had no idea how “quaint” the
women’s robing room was.
As Needham and many others
succinctly articulated in 240
character tweets, the campaign
is about more than just a room.
Robing rooms are a place where
informal mentoring, networking
and even substantive discussion
on files takes place. Yet, for decades,
women litigators have had
to tolerate (albeit not always happily)
small, cramped and sometimes
non-existent robing rooms.
We’ve waited by the doors of the
courthouse while our male colleagues
have taken forever to get
changed out of their robes. And
we’ve been briefed on important
robing room discussions about
our files on the walk back from
Court. Even more broadly, the
#RobingRoom campaign is about
inclusion and the women’s robing
room being representative of the
systemic inequality that is pervasive
in the legal profession.
To its credit, less than a day after
the initial Twitter storm, the LSO
replaced the “Lady Barristers” sign
and responded to say: “We appreciate
the concerns outlined in the
petition about the women’s robing
room at Osgoode Hall and we are
looking into options. We’ll provide
an update as soon as we are able.”
Then, on Feb 20, LSO announced:
“Change is coming! We’re working
to create one dedicated gender-neutral
space for all barristers
to robe & network in what’s now
the men’s robing room. Modifications
are needed to support personal
privacy in the washrooms.
Once complete the space will be
open to all. We are working out
specific plans and timelines. Please
stay tuned for updates as we work
to ensure robing & networking facilities
are inclusive & welcoming.
In the meantime, please continue
to respect people’s privacy.”
The Twitter campaign to make
the Osgoode Hall robing room
facilities fair illustrates just how
quickly change can happen when
fearless advocates speak out
about an issue and work together
using the power of social media
to make change. To be sure,
there are far bigger injustices and
battles to be fought but achieving
an inclusive space for counsel at
the building housing Ontario’s
highest Court is an important and
symbolic step forward.
VANCOUVER
Monday, April 8, 2019
9:30 am to 3:35 pm
UBC Robson Square, 800 Robson St.
CALGARY
Tuesday, April 9, 2019
9:30 am - 3:30 pm
Hotel Le Germain, 899 Centre Street SW
EDMONTON
Wednesday, April 10, 2019
1:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m
The Sutton Place Hotel Edmonton
10235 101 St NW
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SIGNATURE CONFERENCE
Tricks of the Trade 2019:
Cyberspace and back
Sabrina A. Lucenti, Dooley Lucenti LLP
The personal injury bar got their usual head start in 2019 with the annual Tricks of the Trade
Conference in Toronto. Conference chairs Patrick J. Brown, McLeish Orlando LLP, Susan E.
Gunter, Dutton Brock LLP and Peter W. Kryworuk, Lerners LLP lead a great lineup of speakers
who provided updates on recent court decisions, hot topics in the law and trial advocacy tips.
This year’s Tricks took the audience on a wonderful journey through the #digitalworld.
Rikin Morzaria, McLeish Orlando LLP (@RikinMorzaria) discussed social media evidence
from the investigation phase through to trial. He covered what you need to know about
preserving and producing social media evidence during the discovery process and a case
law update on disclosure obligations and the use of social media evidence at trial.
Daniel Michaluk, Hicks Morley (@danmichaluk) gave us a refresher on privacy law including
everything you need to know about the tort of inclusion upon seclusion and a case law update
on the exclusion of evidence obtained in breach of privacy. In a time when people are
sharing their day-to-day happenings with hundreds of their closest “friends”, where do we
draw the line on one’s reasonable expectation of privacy? Asking for a friend.
Catherine Bruder of Bruder
Springstead LLP gave a case law
update on how to get your social
media and surveillance evidence
before the court at trial.
Everyone knows the way to a
personal injury defence lawyer’s
heart is through surveillance.
However, there is nothing
more heart wrenching than
having the evidence excluded.
Avoid the unknowns of a voir
dire. When in doubt, disclose!
Chris Bentley, Legal Innovation
Zone (@Chris_Bentley) talked
about artificial intelligence and
the future of personal injury litigation.
As the first legal tech incubator,
Chris explained how the
savvy LIZ team and their partners
are developing fast, simple,
affordable decision-making techniques
and solutions to improve
legal services and the justice
system. To learn more about LIZ
and their affiliated startups visit
www.legalinnovationzone.ca
When the voyage through
cyberspace was complete, the
unplugged portion of the conference
took the audience back
to basics.
The Advocates’ Society welcomed
keynote speaker Erika
Chamberlain, Dean of Law
at of the University of Western
Ontario. Dean Chamberlain
took the audience on a journey
through the evolution of the
duty of care in negligence. Dean
Chamberlain discussed recent
trends in the law that suggest
that the courts may be moving
towards a more fact-specific or
category-based inquiry when
determining whether a duty of
care exists. For torts and other
sorts, follow Dean Chamberlain
at @lawdeanerika.
Last, but certainly not least, the
panel of @SCJOntario_en judges
(yes, the Ontario Superior Court
of Justice is on Twitter) gave novice
advocates trial tips (not tricks)
on qualifying an expert witness
and choosing the right expert.
Here are some key takeaways:
(1) Eliminate the guesswork.
Write out for the court the area
in which you seek to qualify your
expert and in which he or she will
give opinion evidence. (2) Forget
the fillers. From the moment
you choose your expert until the
moment you qualify him or her
at trial, focus in on education,
training and experience. If your
expert does not have the expertise
necessary to assist the court,
do not risk losing your case by
calling the expert anyway. Finally,
the panel was unanimous in
saying to all advocates: “get up
on your feet and try your cases”.
#nocomputersneeded
Another great day of learning
and collegiality at Tricks of the
Trade. See you next January!
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TAS REPORT
New one-judge civil case
management pilot project
Jeffrey J. Kroeker, B.A. (Hons.), J.D, Civis Law LLP
On January 23 rd , 2019, The Advocates’ Society hosted its annual Evening with the
Commercial List reception with honoured guests Regional Senior Justice, The
Honourable Geoffrey Morawetz; Commercial List lead judge, The Honourable
Justice Glenn Hainey; and his Commercial List judicial colleagues, Justices Victoria
Chiappetta, Barbara Conway, Bernadette Dietrich, Thomas McEwen, Laurence
Pattillo, and Michael Penny. With more than 70 lawyers attending, the bench and
bar were able to have discussions about issues and experiences regarding Court
processes in an informal setting.
This event was generously
sponsored by NERA
Economic Consulting.
Lead judge of the Commercial
List, Justice Hainey gave
an address that strongly encouraged
lawyers to embrace
case management as a means
to produce more effective
and timely results. Justice
Hainey stressed that he and
his fellow judges are working
to make the Commercial List
more efficient, user-friendly,
and responsive to litigants
with the aim of providing
timely and cost-effective service
to commercial clients.
With that in mind, Justice
Hainey discussed the merits
of a new One-Judge Model
pilot project which landed
on February 1 st , 2019, where
parties can consent to have
one judge assigned at the
outset of a civil proceeding.
Under this pilot initiative, a
single judge will case manage
all pre-trial hearings; case
conferences; and, the trial
itself (only settlement-related
case conferences will be
presided over by a different
judge). The aim of the pilot
is to allow judges to become
entirely familiar with the issues
in the dispute and will
allow judges to vet particular
issues before scheduling
interlocutory motions.. Of
note: The Advocates’ Society
worked with other legal organizations
to support the
Court in its development of
the pilot program, as part
of the Society’s commitment
to improving our justice system
and enhancing access
to justice. You can expect to
hear more from the Society
about the program following
its launch. In the meantime,
for more information, please
review the Practice Advisory
on the website of the Ontario
Superior Court of Justice.
Another exciting evolution
announced by Justice Hainey
is the mandatory “Digital
hearing workspace pilot project”.
As of February 11, 2019,
documents can be uploaded
to a digital workspace website
hosted by the Court.
Owing to increases in judicial
workloads and lengthy
wait times for trials on both
the Commercial and Estates
Lists, Justice Hainey indicated
a judicial shift toward more
frequent use of case conferences
to resolve as many
issues as possible before
contested motions are even
scheduled. Justice Hainey
also noted that full and partial
Summary Judgment Motions
will no longer be scheduled
at 9:30am meetings in
Chambers. Counsel wishing
to bring full or partial
summary judgment motions
must first schedule a case
conference to have the merits
of their matter vetted by
a judge before a motion can
even be scheduled. Counsel
at the event were also urged
to limit 9:30am meetings in
Chambers to a 10-minute
maximum. If a 9:30am Chambers
appointment is expected
to exceed 10 minutes,
counsel are strongly encouraged
to arrange a case conference,
which can also be
scheduled within a relatively
short period of time.
Finally, nominations for the
Commercial List Users Committee
(CLUC) will be open
for new members of CLUC for
the fall. Justice Hainey is encouraging
all to serve on the
CLUC, which is for a 3-year
term. For more information
click here.
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INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY
International Women’s Day:
a modern consideration
of the centuries long
struggle for equality
Yola S. Ventresca, Lerners LLP
18 th Annual Spring Symposium
Wednesday, April 24, 2019 | 9:00 am - 4:00 pm | The Carlu, College Park, Toronto, ON
What sets Spring Symposium apart from every other civil litigation conference?
ADVOCACY. It’s what our members do and, for nearly two decades, we have advanced the
work of advocates with Spring Symposium. Join us on April 24 in Toronto and experience
rich, collegial learning that focuses on what you do every day – ADVOCACY.
One of the iconic images of revolutionary movements that have shaped the course of world
history is a grainy photograph of thousands of women textile workers crowding the streets
of Petrograd, then the capital of the Russian Empire, on March 8, 1917. The date had been
purposefully chosen. For years, in fact, in both Europe and North America, March 8 had
come to be associated with the gathering global movement for women’s rights, most urgently
the right to vote. The women textile workers were marching in the streets of the
Russian capital, their banners declared, for ‘bread and peace’. They were protesting bread
shortages and, more broadly, an increasingly unpopular and destructive war effort whose
disastrous direction was laid squarely at the feet of a repressive, derelict Tsarist regime.
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Though it was scarcely evident
to anyone at the time,
even to the most acute observer,
the march for bread and
peace sparked a movement
that would, in short order, destroy
one of the world’s longest-surviving
dynasties, usher
in a radical political, social and
economic experiment with its
own repressive and violent impulses,
and fuel revolutionary
dreams and delusions around
the world. What began as a
protest among women textile
workers, who were among the
most exploited segments of
Russia’s working class, sparked
what came to be known as the
February Revolution, as the
women’s march morphed into
citywide demonstrations that
virtually paralyzed the capital
of one of the world’s major
powers in the middle of a
cataclysmic global war. Within
a week, Tsar Nicholas II had
abdicated, yielding power to
the Provisional Government
which, in turn, was toppled
several months later by Lenin
and the Bolsheviks during
what came to be known as the
October Revolution.
It was not the first time in
history, nor would it be the
last, that women in a given
place and time transgressed
the norms and conventions of
their day to articulate a vision
of a better world. It is commonplace
to attribute to these
pioneering women’s marches
a rather traditional motivation
– women as wives and mothers
taking to the streets and
public squares to exert their
moral influence as keepers of
hearth and home, on matters
that were deemed “proper” to
the domestic sphere.
Yet this commonplace assumption
obscures the essential
political feature of what has
come to be celebrated as International
Women’s Day. Well before
the decisive, epochal events
that flowed from the Russian
women’s march for bread and
peace in 1917, the marches, protests
and celebrations of March 8
were fundamentally about challenging
and changing the structures
of power and privilege that
sustained gender discrimination,
inequality, exploitation, harassment
and violence; hence the
importance of the right to vote for
that pioneering generation of the
women’s rights movements. For
much of history, and across cultures,
mobilizing women in the
public sphere meant crossing
boundaries; it meant challenging
cultural and legal constraints that
deprived women everywhere
of basic political rights and legal
status, as well as the social, educational
and economic opportunities
that flowed from having
political rights and legal status.
Over one hundred years
have passed since the women
of Petrograd helped to spark a
global revolution whose reverberations
are felt to this day. It
goes without saying that things
have changed for the better;
so much so that we have
come to embrace International
Women’s Day as an occasion
to celebrate women’s historic
achievements with perhaps
little more than a symbolic nod
to the lessons of history.
It’s wholly understandable to
want to focus on the present,
and the future, which is what
the women marchers and activists
of previous generations
did. But the lessons of the
past can help to put the challenges
of today, and tomorrow,
in their proper perspective,
thereby empowering us
to challenge the norms, conventions
and practices that
sustain systemic gender discrimination,
harassment and
violence. It’s commonplace to
hear that we are so very far
removed from the structures
and attitudes that justified the
exploitation of those Russian
women textile workers a century
ago. While the social and
political context certainly has
changed, the fact is that subtle
and not-so-subtle barriers to
equality, parity and opportunity
remain. Gaps persist, for
instance, between women and
men in access to, and mobility
in, STEM-related fields. Gaps
persist between women and
men in wages and professional
opportunity in emerging fields.
Gaps persist between women
and men in access to education.
Gaps persist between women
and men in terms of parenting
demands and expectations. And
gaps persist between women
and men in terms of access to
the corridors of power – political
and economic. In the legal profession,
for instance, for all the
advances women lawyers have
made in recent decades, gaps
persist in terms of access to the
upper ranks of power and decision
making; gaps persist that
continue to favour traditional
male dominated paths to advancement
in the profession,
caused primarily by turning a
blind eye to the systemic barriers
that inhibit a level playing
field between women and men.
And, as I write this on the eve
of International Women’s Day
2019, I would be remiss not to
give a nod to the mini-revolution
we saw this past month,
when a group of like-minded
women lawyers, banded
together (with the support of
many male allies), to march
digitally to demand parity in
the robing rooms at Osgoode
Hall. A revolution that was met
with quick success; evidence
of the power of mobilizing
women’s voices.
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THE FUTURE OF ADVOCACY
A Digital Hearing Workspace
for the Commercial List
Brent J. Arnold, Gowling WLG
The Commercial List has long been a leader in the Ontario courts in adopting procedural
innovations and embracing technology in (and out of) court. The latest example of this forward
thinking takes the form of the Digital Hearing Workspace, which recently completed
testing and was rolled out on February 11, 2019, all courtesy of the MAG Innovation Office.
The Commercial List accepts and encourages parties to submit materials electronically. The
Superior Court’s Guide Concerning e-Delivery of Documents in the Ontario Superior Court of
Justice provides guidelines for the preparation and formatting, naming and filing of documents
in this manner, and the current
practice is to file documents on
USB keys in addition to paper
copies. But USB keys are easy to
misplace, and judges reportedly
end up with drawers full of them.
The new Workspace provides a
collaborative, interactive online
portal for sharing and filing electronic
versions of documents.
Documents can be uploaded
to a party’s portion of the
case site, and then shared with
the parties and court. Once
posted to the site, they can be
downloaded or opened on the
site in their native format or
viewed in a portal viewer that
allows quick navigation of the
document. Limited annotation
functions are available in the
portal viewer as well.
(A screen capture of the Workplace case dashboard, using
dummy documents from a test session.)
The MAG anticipates eventually
rolling out the Workspace
for use in civil, criminal
and family matters following
a successful proof-of-concept
on the Commercial List. For
now, you’ll still need to file
paper copies as well, but the
Workspace represents a big
step in what (I hope) will be a
drive toward paperless courts
in the future.
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AN EVENING WITH THE COMMERCIAL LIST
Wednesday, January 23, 2019 | TAS Education Centre, Toronto ON
TRICKS OF THE TRADE 2019
Friday, January 25, 2019 | The Carlu, Toronto ON
The Honourable Justice Mark L.J. Edwards, Superior Court of Justice , The Honourable
Justice Darla A. Wilson, Superior Court of Justice, Peter W. Kryworuk, Lerners LLP
Robert L. Love,
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
Dean Erika Chamberlain, University of Western Ontario Faculty of Law
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The Hon. Glenn Hainey,
Robert Macdonald, Fogler, Rubinoff LLP;
Christopher A.W. Bentley,
Lisa Armstrong,
Daniel Michaluk,
Ontario Superior Court of Justice
Monique Jilesen, Lenczner Slaght
Legal Innovation Zone
Strigberger Brown Armstrong LLP
Hicks Morley Hamilton 23
Stewart Storie LLP

CROSS-EXAMINATION: STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS
Wednesday, January 30, 2019 | TAS Education Centre, Toronto, ON
The John P. Nelligan Award
for Excellence in Advocacy 2019
Tuesday, May 14, 2019 | Reception: 6:00 p.m. | Dinner: 7:00 p.m.
Shaw Centre, 55 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa | Dress: Business Attire
Please join us as we honour William J. Sammon, Barnes, Sammon LLP
with The John P. Nelligan Award for Excellence in Advocacy.
The John P. Nelligan Award for Excellence in Advocacy is a tribute to a
member of the bar in the Ottawa region. This dinner is a celebration
of excellence for a leading advocate who has demonstrated their
distinction as counsel, made a significant contribution to the profession
of law and to the well-being of the community at large.
Ticket(s) are $135 per person plus HST
Registration closes Wednesday, May 7, 2019
Steve Tenai, Aird & Berlis LLP, Alan Mark, Goodmans LLP, Sandra Barton, Gowlings WLG,
Raj Anand, LSM, WeirFoulds LLP
ADMINISTRATIVE TRIBUNAL ADVOCACY
Tuesday, February 12, 2019 | TAS Education Centre, Toronto, ON
To learn more or register, click here
Generously Sponsored by:
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Alexandra S. Clark, Ministry of the Attorney General, Jennifer L. McAleer, Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP,
David P. Jacobs, Watson Jacobs McCreary LLP

TOP CASES IN COMMERCIAL LITIGATION
Wednesday, February 20, 2019 | TAS Education Centre, Toronto, ON
Paul Guy, Thornton Grout Finnigan LLP, Mark Ross, Ross Barristers P.C., Erin Pleet, Thornton Grout Finnigan LLP,
George Pakozdi, Boghosian + Allen LLP, Atrisha S. Lewis, McCarthy Tétrault LLP
THE INSIDE STORY: ADVOCACY AT THE INTERSECTION OF
LITIGATION AND THE BUSINESS OF CANNABIS
Wednesday, February 27, 2019 | Arbitration Place, Toronto, ON
2019 End of Term Dinner
Thursday, June 20, 2019 | Cocktail Reception: 5:30 pm | Dinner: 7:00 pm
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, North Building, 255 Front Street West, Toronto
Black Tie | A member-only event
Generously sponsored by:
VICTORY VERBATIM
REPORTING SERVICES, INC.
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Speakers: Matt Maurer, Torkin Manes LLP, Sony Gokhale, General Counsel, The Supreme Cannabis Company
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TAS MEDAL DINNER HONOURING BRYAN FINLAY, Q.C.
Tuesday, February 12, 2019 | Hilton Toronto, Toronto, ON
LABOUR & EMPLOYMENT:
WOMEN’S BREAKFAST ON SOCIAL MEDIA
Friday, March 1, 2019 | TAS Education Centre, Toronto, ON
Bryan Finlay, Q.C., WeirFoulds LLP, and family
Denise Sayer, Paris & Company, Erin H. Durant, Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, Erin C. Cowling, Freelance Litigator & President of Flex
Legal Network Inc., Kelly Doctor, Goldblatt Partners LLP, P.A. Neena Gupta, Gowling WLG (Canada) LLP
BARRIE COURTHOUSE: THE EFFECTIVE WITNESS
Thursday, March 7, 2019 | Barrie Courthouse, Barrie, ON
The Honourable Ian Binnie, C.C., Q.C., Arbitration Place
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Bryan Finlay, Q.C., WeirFoulds LLP,
and TAS President Brian Gover, Stockwoods LLP
Bryan Finlay, Q.C., WeirFoulds LLP

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