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ALBERTA
• Glen H. Poelman, a lawyer with Macleod Dixon LLP, is appointed judge of the Court of Queen's Bench of Alberta in Calgary. • Karam-Ali Talakshi and Ryan Kary have joined Borden Ladner Gervais LLP as associates.
• Kemm Yates of Blake Cassels & Graydon LLP and Laura Formusa, president and chief executive of Hydro One Inc. have been named recipients of the 2010 Energy Bear Awards. The awards, presented by the Canadian Energy Law Forum, recognize substantial contributions to the field of energy regulatory law that demonstrate ongoing leadership and excellence.
• Claus Karl Willi Thietke has been appointed to the provincial court, Peace River/Northern Region. • Ryan Pelletier has joined Billington Barristers in Calgary as a senior associate.
• Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP has welcomed Tim Haney to its National Securities and Corporate Finance Group.
• Field Law has welcomed Neil Kathol, Richard Stobbe and Tom Malyszko to its Calgary office and Intellectual Property and Technology Group.
BRITISH COLUMBIA
• Vancouver's Alexander Holburn Beaudin & Lang LLP has welcomed Mandy Cheema and James Ball to the firm as associates.
• Edmund Y. Xie has joined Oyen Wiggs Green & Mutala LLP as an associate.
• Jennifer A. Marles of Oyen Wiggs Green & Mutala LLP has been awarded the J. Edward Maybee Memorial Prize for earning the highest mark on the patent agent examination.
• Cam McTavish has joined Clark Wilson LLP, and will focus his practice on corporate finance/securities, mergers and acquisitions, and cross-border transactions.
• Jennifer Power, a regional crown counsel with the Ministry of the Attorney General, is appointed judge of the Supreme Court of British Columbia in Nanaimo.
• Ryan Goodman has joined Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP as an associate practising corporate finance, securities, and M&A.
MANITOBA
• Lisa J. Stiver, a partner and business lawyer with Thompson Dorfman Sweatman LLP, has been appointed to the TEC 9273 Trusted Advisors group.
• Don Slough, formerly assistant deputy attorney general, has been appointed to the provincial court of Manitoba in Dauphin.
• Thompson Dorfman Sweatman LLP has welcomed Alex S. Bainov, Andrea R. Doyle, Hayley B. Main and Laura C. Workman as associate lawyers.
• Leilani Kagan, a tax lawyer and partner with Thompson Dorfman Sweatman LLP in Winnipeg, has been re-appointed as president of the Rainbow Society Inc.
• Cynthia Hiebert-Simkin, a wills and estates lawyer with Taylor McCaffrey LLP, has been appointed to the board of directors for Women Business Owners of Manitoba.
• Justice Malcolm McDonald has officially been sworn in to the provincial court, filling an opening in The Pas.
NEW BRUNSWICK
• The following lawyers joined McInnes Cooper’s Saint John office on July 1, 2010 when the firm merged with Clark Drummie: Norman J. Bossé (partner), Tera S. Bradford (associate),Terry W. Hutchinson (partner), Willard M. Jenkins (partner), M. Robert Jette (partner), Donald F. MacGowan (counsel), James C. Mosher (associate), and G. Fred Nicholson (counsel). Ryan Seymour has joined the firm's Fredericton office as an associate.
• David M. Landry has joined LeBlanc Boucher Rodger Bourque in Moncton as an associate.
• Law firms McInnes Cooper and Clark Drummie have merged, effective July 1, 2010.
• Jason Caissie (Fredericton), Josie Marks (Moncton), and Misty Watson (Saint John) will become associates at Stewart McKelvey following their bar admission ceremonies.
• 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.
NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR • Deborah J. Paquette, Q.C., Assistant Deputy Minister
with the Department of Justice of the Government of Newfoundland and
Labrador, is appointed judge of the Trial Division of the Supreme Court
of Newfoundland and Labrador. • Lois R. Hoegg, judge of the Trial Division of the
Supreme Court of Newfoundland and Labrador, is appointed judge of the
Court of Appeal of the Supreme Court of Newfoundland and Labrador (St.
John's). • Ruth Trask will become an associate at Stewart McKelvey in St. John's following her bar admission ceremony.
• Tauna Staniland has joined Stewart McKelvey in St. John's as an associate.
• Michael Crosbie, a partner with McInnes Cooper in St. John’s, has been appointed Queen’s Counsel.
• Melissa Hill has joined McInnes Cooper St. John’s as an associate.
NORTHWEST TERRITORIES
• Gerald Stang and the Peterson Stang corporate department will be joining the Field Law offices in Yellowknife in August. NOVA SCOTIA • Peter Rosinski, a lawyer with Public
Prosecution Service, is appointed a judge of the Supreme Court
of Nova Scotia in Halifax. • Peter M.S. Bryson, a judge of the
Supreme Court of Nova Scotia in Halifax, is appointed judge of the
Court of Appeal.
• Pierre L. Muise, a judge of the Provincial
Court of Nova Scotia (Digby), is appointed judge of the Supreme Court
of Nova Scotia in Yarmouth. Patrick J. Murray, a lawyer
with Murray Gouthro Wall, is appointed judge of the Supreme Court
of Nova Scotia in Sydney. • Paul Sampson (real estate), Ryan Conrod (litigation), Heather Dawe (corporate & business, tax), Jessie Irving (energy & natural resources, real estate), Kate Mullan (litigation) and
Katie Roebothan (labour & employment) have joined McInnes Cooper as associates.
• Former Goldberg Thompson partners Victor J. Goldberg, Paul W. Goldberg, Paul L. Thompson, Harry D. Thompson, QC, John G. Stewart, and Peter C. Rumscheidt; and associate Martha L. Mann have relocated to Cox & Palmer’s Halifax office following a merger between the firms.
• Ian Breneman, Kate Marshall, Michelle McCann, and Todd Schindeler will become associates at Stewart McKelvey in Halifax following their bar admission ceremonies.
• Karen Bennett-Clayton, Ian Sutherland, and Mark Tector of Stewart McKelvey in Halifax have been admitted to the partnership.
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
• Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP has welcomed Doug H. Scott to the firm as a partner in its Toronto office.
• University of Ottawa president Allan Rock has announced that common law Prof. Stéphane Émard-Chabot will become his chief of staff, effective Aug. 16.
• Margot Patterson has joined Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP's Ottawa office as a consultant in the communications, IP, and entertainment/sports/media groups.
• Hamilton lawyer Randall Bocock has been elected to the National Conference of Bar Presidents, becoming the first non-U.S. lawyer to sit on the organization’s executive council.
• Mary Jane Hatton, senior judge of the Family Court
Branch of the Superior Court of Justice of Ontario, is appointed judge
of the Superior Court of Justice of Ontario (Durham). Katherine B. Corrick, director of policy and tribunals
at the Law Society of Upper Canada, is appointed judge of the
Superior Court of Justice of Ontario in Toronto. James A.S. Wilcox, a lawyer with Wallace Klein Partners in Law, is appointed judge of the Superior Court of Justice of Ontario in Haileybury. • Jennifer Jolly has joined Borden Ladner Gervais LLP in Ottawa as an associate.
PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND • The Office of the Attorney General and Public Safety will be renamed the Department of Justice and Public Safety.
• 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 • Alain Bolduc, a lawyer with Joli-Coeur, Lacasse s.e.n.c.r.l., is appointed judge of the Superior Court of Quebec in Trois-Rivières. Marie-Anne Paquette, a lawyer with Woods LLP, is appointed judge of the Superior Court of Quebec in
Montréal. • BCF LLP has welcomed Antoine Leduc as a partner practising banking and financial services law, as well as bankruptcy and restructuring matters.
• Virginie Fortin has joined Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP's Montreal office as an associate.
• Court of Quebec Justice Gilles Garneau has been transferred from Montreal to the Laval courthouse, located at 2800, boulevard St-Martin Ouest.
• Ogilvy Renault LLP has appointed Jean G. Bertrand as managing partner of its Montréal office.
• Mathieu Leblanc-Gagnon of Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP has been elected president of the Quebec City Young Lawyers Association.
SASKATCHEWAN • McDougall Gauley LLP partner Murray R. Sawatzky has been inducted as a fellow of the Canadian College of Construction Lawyers.
• McDougall Gauley LLP has welcomed Robert Hendry as a senior associate in Saskatoon office.
• Robert Hendry has joined McDougall Gauley LLP as a senior associate in the firm's Saskatoon office.
• Morris Mark Baniak has been appointed as a judge of the Provincial Court for Prince Albert.
• Neal W. Caldwell has been appointed a judge of the Court of Appeal, replacing Justice D.C. Hunter.
• 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. INTERNATIONAL
• Judge Kimberly Prost, who has served as an ad litem judge of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia since July 2006 has been appointed to serve as ombudsperson to the United Nations Al-Qaida and Taliban Sanctions Committee.
• Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP has welcomed Catherine Moss as a partner, John Burnand as an associate and Kayleigh Wilshaw as a newly qualified solicitor. All three will be based at the firm’s London, UK, office. • University of Ottawa Faculty of Law common law graduate and January term professor Camille Nelson has been appointed dean of Suffolk University Law School, Boston.
• Harvey J. Kirsh, co-chairman of Osler Hoskin & Harcourt LLP’s construction and infrastructure group, has been appointed by NJ Transit and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey as chairman of a dispute review board relating to both subsurface and surface contracts for the construction of the $8.7-billion Mass Transit Tunnel project.
• Sean Rush, former legal manager for Petro-Canada, has joined Memery Crystal LLP in London, England as partner.
• David Manny has joined Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP in London, England as a partner.
Last updated: Aug. 27, 2010
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