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la’s trailblazing career and its specific<br />
significance for women in the legal profession.<br />
The panel was chaired by Deborah<br />
E. Palter, Thornton Grout Finnigan<br />
LLP and thenPresident of The Advocates’<br />
Society. Speakers included The Hon. Justice<br />
Andromache Karakatsanis, Supreme<br />
Court of Canada; Sana Halwani, Lenczner<br />
Slaght LLP; The Hon. Justice Freda Steel,<br />
Manitoba Court of Appeal; Rosalie Jukier,<br />
Associate Dean, Faculty of Law, McGill<br />
University; Linda Rothstein, LSM, Paliare<br />
Roland Rosenberg Rothstein LLP and<br />
Shantona Chaudhury, Pape Chaudhury<br />
LLP.<br />
Former TAS President Guy J. Pratte, Ad.<br />
E., LSM, acted as Master of Ceremonies of<br />
the gala dinner, and gave a moving personal<br />
speech touching on the anti-Semitism<br />
suffered by family friends during<br />
his youth. The events also featured musical<br />
interludes befitting Justice Abella’s background<br />
as a classical pianist, including a live<br />
performance by a virtuosic young violinist from<br />
the Royal Conservatory of Music, a rap by TAS<br />
member and former Abella clerk, Gerald Chan,<br />
and a video from Osgoode Hall law students<br />
performing a choreographed “Abella” adapted<br />
from Rihanna’s hit song “Umbrella.”<br />
Among the many dignitaries paying tribute to<br />
Justice Abella were U.S. Supreme Court Justice<br />
Sonia Sotomayor, author Margaret Atwood,<br />
former Justice Minister Irwin Cotler and South<br />
African constitutional court Justice Albie Sachs.<br />
A constant refrain was how this long-serving<br />
and much-loved judge, known everywhere simply<br />
as “Rosie,” has touched an extraordinary<br />
amount of lives with her approach to justice,<br />
the law and humanity.<br />
The Sting: Ottawa’s Lawyer Play<br />
Finally, June saw the return of the Ottawa’s Lawyer Play at the Great Canadian Theatre Company,<br />
an annual legal thespian tradition that was much missed over the past two years. TAS<br />
was a sponsor of the Gala Reception on June 25. This year’s production, The Sting, adapted<br />
from the Oscar-winning screenplay, starred numerous members of the Ottawa bar. The<br />
event raised funds for the Roger Neilson House, a local organization that provides palliative<br />
care and support to newborns, children, youth and their families.<br />
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