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ALBERTA 

• Lars H. Olthafer has joined Blake Cassels & Graydon LLP in Calgary as a partner.

• Marc D. Adler has left McCarthy Tétrault LLP in Calgary to join GE Energy Financial Services Canada as senior counsel.

• Justice Joanne H. Goss, a judge of the Provincial Court of Alberta, has been appointed to the Court of Queen’s Bench of Alberta in Edmonton to replace Justice M.B. Bielby.

• Justice Myra B. Bielby, a judge of the Court of Queen’s Bench of Alberta, has been appointed to the Court of Appeal in Edmonton to fill a new pool position.

• C. Kemm Yates, Q.C., has joined Blake Cassels & Graydon LLP in Calgary as a partner in the firm's regulatory practice.

• Douglas Forer and Edward Gullberg have been named partners of McLennan Ross LLP.

BRITISH COLUMBIA

• Travis Cramb and Chris Ferronato have joined Bull Housser & Tupper LLP in Vancouver as associates.

• Dan Parlow, James McRae, and Shane Coblin have been promoted to partner at Kornfeld Mackoff Silber LLP in Vancouver.

• Lance Bredeson has joined Lang Michener LLP in Vancouver as an associate.

• David Gruber has joined Farris Vaughan Wills & Murphy LLP in Vancouver as a partner.

• Brian Fulton has been appointed managing partner at Lawson Lundell LLP.

• Heather M. Cane and Mandeep R. Dhaliwal have been named partners at Lawson Lundell LLP in Vancouver.

MANITOBA

• Sheryl Rosenberg, a lawyer with Thompson Dorfman Sweatman LLP in Winnipeg, has been appointed to the environment committee with the Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters Manitoba.

• Glen Agar, a partner with Thompson Dorfman Sweatman LLP in Winnipeg, has been appointed the chairman of the Lex Mundi agribusiness practice group; Jim Edmond, a partner with TDS, has been appointed the chairman of the Lex Mundi insurance/reinsurance practice group; Douglas Forbes, a partner with TDS, has been appointed the regional vice chairman (North America) of the Lex Mundi cross-border transactions practice group; and Jan Lederman, a partner with TDS, has been appointed regional vice chairwoman (North America) of the Lex Mundi corporate organizations and securities practice group.

• Richard A. Saull, a lawyer with the Manitoba Department of Justice in Winnipeg, has been appointed a judge of the Court of Queen’s Bench in Winnipeg to fill a new position created by an amendment to the Judges Act (Bill C-39).

• Silvia de Sousa, an intellectual property lawyer with Thompson Dorfman Sweatman LLP, has been appointed to the Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters Manitoba's technology and innovation committee; and Rob Olson, a labour and employment lawyer with TDS, has been appointed to its health and safety/workers compensation committee.

• Thompson Dorfman Sweatman LLP has been recognized by Lexpert as the leading Manitoba corporate law firm for the third consecutive year.

• Jennifer Ervick and Lynda Troup of Thompson Dorfman Sweatman LLP in Winnipeg have been appointed honorary council to the Information & Communication Technologies Association of Manitoba.   

NEW BRUNSWICK

• Peter R. Forestell, QC, Cox & Palmer's new managing partner in New Brunswick, has been named chairman of the firm’s board of directors.

• Heather Black and Michael Connors from McInnes Cooper's Fredericton office; and Chris Borden and Remy Boudreau from Moncton have been promoted to partner.

• Jeff Hoyt and Elspeth Williams have joined McInnes Cooper’s Saint John office. 

• John Friel, Q.C., a former McInnes Cooper associate, has been appointed a New Brunswick Provincial Court judge, replacing Judge John J. Walsh.

• David Barry, Q.C., counsel and a former partner of Saint John law firm Barry Spalding, has been appointed as the chair and CEO of the New Brunswick Securities Commission.

• Adam van der Linde, a 2009 graduate of the University of New Brunswick’s Faculty of Law, has been honoured with the Canadian Bar Association’s 2009 Edward K. Rowan-Legg Award.

NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR

• Blair Pritchett has been promoted to partner at McInnes Cooper in St. John’s.

• Robert P. Stack, partner with Cox & Palmer, has been appointed judge of the Trial Division of the Supreme Court of Newfoundland and Labrador, replacing Justice W. Goodridge. 

• Brian Gatien of Sudbury's Gatien Human Resources Law has been called to the Newfoundland and Labrador Bar. 

• Tanya Bath has joined McInnes Cooper as an associate in St. John’s.

• Justice Michael Harrington, a judge of the Supreme Court of Newfoundland and Labrador, Trial Division, has been appointed a judge of the Court of Appeal of the Supreme Court of Newfoundland and Labrador, replacing Justice L. Barry.

• Nick Whalen has joined McInnes Cooper in St. John's as an associate.

NOVA SCOTIA

• Justice David P.S. Farrar, a judge of the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia in Yarmouth, has been appointed to the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal in Halifax to replace Justice E.A. Roscoe.

• Cox & Palmer and Goldberg Thompson will merge in Halifax, effective April 1, 2010.

• McInnes Cooper counsel Wylie Spicer, Q.C., has been appointed as one of three new Independent Adjudicators of the Marine Stewardship Council and he has also been elected to the Offshore/Onshore Technologies Association of Nova Scotia board of directors.

• Basia Dzierzanowska and David Fraser have been promoted to partner at McInnes Cooper in Halifax.

• David Graves of Halifax has been appointed to the Canadian Defence Lawyers board of directors.

• Bruce Russell, a partner with McInnes Cooper, has been elected to the board of governors of the Canadian Tax Foundation.

NUNAVUT

• Susan Cooper, a partner at Chandler & Cooper in Iqaluit, has been appointed a judge of the Nunavut Court of Justice, replacing Justice B.A. Browne.

• Gregory Nearing, 48, who practised criminal law, passed away on Nov. 15, 2009. He has held several significant positions in the past including executive director of the Legal Services Board of the Northwest Territories, treasurer and president of the Northwest Territories Law Society, and president of the Nunavut Law Society.   

• Justice R.G. Kilpatrick, a judge of the Nunavut Court of Justice, has been appointed senior judge of the Nunavut Court of Justice, replacing Justice B.A. Browne.

• Norman Pickell, appointed last year as Acting Integrity Commissioner for Nunavut, has been confirmed as the Integrity Commissioner of Nunavut.

ONTARIO

• The law firm Graham Wilson and Green, which serves Barrie and the Simcoe County area, is reinventing itself as Graham Partners LLP. Peter Krysiak has also joined the firm as an associate.

• Shawn McReynolds will be appointed managing partner of Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP's Toronto office effective June 1, 2010, succeeding William M. O'Reilly who will retire as managing partner at the end of May.

• Former Ontario premier Mike Harris has joined Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP in Toronto as a senior business adviser.

• Jamie Mills and Chantal Saunders have joined Borden Ladner Gervais LLP in Ottawa as partners, and Beverley Moore has joined the office as an associate.

• Valerie Hughes, University of Ottawa common law alumna, has been appointed as director of the legal affairs division of the World Trade Organization secretariat in Geneva, Switzerland.

• A. Duncan Grace, a lawyer with Miller Thomson LLP in London, Ont., has been appointed a judge of the Superior Court of Justice in Toronto to replace Justice W.B. Trafford.

PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND

• Shannon Farrell has been promoted to partner at McInnes Cooper in Charlottetown.

• Gary Scales has joined McInnes Cooper in Charlottetown.

• Tanya LeClair has been called to the Prince Edward Island Bar and is now practising at McInnes Cooper in Summerside.

• Michael Drake has been promoted to partner at McInnes Cooper in Charlottetown.

QUEBEC

• Philippe Casgrain, one of the founders of Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP, has died at the age of 82.

• Neil Katz has joined Blake Cassels & Graydon LLP in Montreal as a partner.

• Jean-Yves Fortin, Hubert Sibre, and Marc Philibert have joined Davis LLP in Montreal as partners; and Mélanie Martel, Annie Claude Beauchemin, Ayman Daher, and Julien Archambault have joined the firm as associates.

• Professor Daniel Jutras has been named dean of law of McGill University's Faculty of Law in Montreal.

• Donald J. Johnston, P.C., O.C., Q.C., a founding partner of Heenan Blaikie LLP in Montreal, has been appointed as special adviser to the Icelandic Government in helping to resolve the Icesave loans dispute with the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.

• Nicole M. Gibeau, a lawyer with Montgrain Gibeau in Longueuil, has been appointed to the Superior Court of Quebec in Montreal to replace Justice S. Borenstein.

SASKATCHEWAN

• The following lawyers have been appointed as Queen's Counsel: Robert Ard, Norman Bercovich, Christopher Boychuk, David Brundige, Sonja Hansen, Douglas Heinricks, William Hood, Terrence Kimpinski, Richard Leland, Eileen Libby, Glen Luther, Kenneth Noble, Tiffany Paulsen, Madeleine Robertson, Bryan Salte, Warren Sproule, Gregory Thompson, and Kevin Wilson.

• Barbara J. Tomkins, Q.C. has been appointed a judge of the Provincial Court for Regina.

• Jeffery Kalmakoff has been appointed a judge of the Estevan Provincial Court. 

• James Plemel has been appointed a judge of the Provincial Court in Wynyard.

• James Anderson, Audrey Lewans, and Amanda Wickett have joined McDougall Gauley LLP in Regina as associates.

• Scott Giroux and Jacqueline Shaw have joined McDougall Gauley LLP in Saskatoon as associates.

INTERNATIONAL 

• David Manny has joined Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP in London, England as a partner.

• Lawyers including Chris Gooding, Hardani (Dani) Azmi, Philip Kornbluth, and Philip Leacock as partners; Alex Ferrari as counsel; and Sukhi Kaler as an associate have joined Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP's office in London, England.

Last updated: March 5, 2010