Advocacy-Matters-Summer-2022

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CHAIR CHAT Chair Chat Chloe Snider, Dentons LLP Welcome to the 2022-2023 Advocates’ Society term. I am excited to be this year’s chair of the 10+ Standing Committee, whose mandate is to provide programming and community for midcareer advocates. I am especially grateful that we can plan in-person events “for real” this year. We have begun our planning for the term. We discussed issues facing mid-career advocates, who are juggling home commitments (including both elderly parents and young children) and growing practices. We brainstormed how our committee can create more programming and content to support our demographic and contribute to the bar more broadly. In that context, we discussed the importance to the profession (and to us) of mentoring, civility and diversity & inclusion. We are looking forward to working on these issues in the coming year. If you have ideas about how we can further these objectives, please feel free to reach out to me at chloe.snider@dentons.com. In this issue, Michelle Alton interviews TAS president Peter Kryworuk. Peter tells us what TAS means to him. It means everything. I find this particularly poignant as I take on the reins of the 10+ Standing Committee of TAS – an or- 4
ganization that has also meant so much to me. Peter also shares with us his vision for his term as president. It’s all about mentorship. There can be no question about the importance of mentorship in the life of an advocate. As mid-career advocates, we have a significant role in mentoring generally and in TAS’s mentoring initiatives. Speaking of mentoring, in this issue’s “Word to the Wise,” we hear from Megan Keenberg and Katherine Chau about mentoring for networking events. This is a very topical refresher on how to help mentees make the most of in-person social events. Megan and Katherine walk us from game plan through follow-up. A must-read. Megan has also become the new Deputy Editor for Advocacy Matters. Welcome (and thank you!), Megan. We also hear from Tamara Ramsey in “The Wrong Stuff Revisited.” Great satire on filing incomprehensible, unliked factums. After reading this piece, you’ll know everything there is to know about how to create a user-unfriendly factum. Who needs hyperlinks anyway? Finally, we have two reports on “actual” in-person events. Zoe Oxaal reports on some in-person events in Ottawa, two of which celebrated outstanding advocates: the Honourable Rosalie Silberman Abella and Richard (Rick) Dearden. Miranda Spence, Cynthia Spry, Nadia Chiesa and Jennifer Brevorka provide a roundtable report on TAS’s End of Term Dinner, where over a thousand of your nearest and dearest colleagues gathered in Toronto to celebrate being together again. While seeing so many people felt overwhelming at first, it was great to meet in person. There is a lot to celebrate and look forward to as we return to our IRL community of advocates. I’d like to say a special thank you our outgoing chair, Emily Lawrence, for steering us through another pandemic year, and to our vice-chair, Steven Frankel, and secretary, Sonu Dhanju-Dhillon, for your help this year. And of course, thank you to the Advocacy Matters team for the interesting and timely content, as always. 5
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