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ALBERTA 

• Peter Soby has joined Davis LLP in Calgary as counsel.

• Hon. Dennis Hart Q.C. has rejoined Macleod Dixon LLP in Calgary as senior counsel.

• Don Davies has rejoined Macleod Dixon LLP in Calgary as a partner.

• The following Calgary lawyers have been appointed as Queen's Counsel: Robert Booth, Patrick Breen, Jane Carstairs, Sheena Cunningham, William DeJong, Jonathan Denis, Shawn Denstedt, Michael Dinkel, Daniel Downe, D. Brian Foster, Karen Gainer, Brock Gibson, William Gray, Timothy Hagg, Patricia Hensley, Terrence Hopwood, Kevin Johnson, Sarah King-D'Souza, Cathy Lane Goodfellow, Donald Leitch, David Linder, Gillian Marriott, James Marshall, Craig McDougall, James McFarlane, Dalton McGrath, Sean McMaster, James Park, Kenneth Potter, Beth Reimer-Heck, Lloyd Robertson, David Robottom, Gregory Rodin, Ryan Roy, Janet Russell, Gregory Shannon, Donald Sibbald, Glenn Solomon, Perry Spitznagel, Gregory Stirling, Murray Stooke, Gregory Turnbull, Mark Van de Veen, John Wilson, Blair Yorke-Slader, Anthony Young, and David Younggren.

• The following Edmonton lawyers have been appointed as Queen's Counsel: Larry Ackerl, Stewart Baker, Dwight Bliss, B. Kathryn Chisholm, Barrie Chivers, James Cregan, Dennis Denis, Earl Evaniew, Anne Ferguson Switzer, Kevin Feth, Robert Finlayson, Gregory Gartner, Jay Guthrie, Margaret (Peggy) Gouin, William Hogle, Kenneth Holmstrom, Ronald Hopp, Martin Kratz, Joseph Kueber, Joan Majeski, Steven Mandziuk, David Marriott, Carman McNary, Sheila McNaughtan, Shirley McNeilly, Lorne Merryweather, Joseph Miller, James Neilson, Rodney Neys, Rex Nielsen, Monica Norminton, Percival Odynak, Michael Penny, Karen Platten, Anthony Richard, Rosanna Saccomani, Kurt Sandstrom, Frederica Schutz, Grant Sprague, David Sullivan, Roger Swainson, Constance Taylor, Barbara Turner, Robert Wilson, Catherine Workun, Debra Yungwirth, and Daniel Zalmanowitz.

• The following lawyers have been appointed as Queen's Counsel: Dale Fedorchuk from Canmore; Leighton Grey from Cold Lake; Gordon Putman from Gibbons; David Labrenz and Ronald McDonald from Lethbridge; James Glass and Donald Sinclair from Red Deer; Gary Cable and Peter Court from Sherwood Park; Michael Klause from Wetaskiwin; and Elizabeth Miller from Nunavut.

BRITISH COLUMBIA

• 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.

• Lisa D. Hobman has joined Lawson Lundell LLP in Vancouver as an associate.

• Elizabeth J. Mah has been named a partner at North Shore Law LLP in North Vancouver.

• Brenda Plowman, director of business development at Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP, is the new president of the Legal Marketing Association's Vancouver chapter.

• Susan Van Dyke, past president of the Vancouver chapter, has joined the Legal Marketing Association's international board of directors.

• Gabriella M. Szerze has joined Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP in Vancouver as an associate.

MANITOBA

• 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.   

• E. William Olson, Q.C.; P. Michael Sinclair, Q.C.; and P. Michael Sinclair from Thompson Dorfman Sweatman LLP have achieved the standing of the 2010 Lexpert/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada.

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

• Leilani Kagan, a partner with Thompson Dorfman Sweatman LLP, has been elected as a trustee of the Manitoba Marathon Foundation and was re-appointed as a director and president of TRIP Dance Company Inc. as well as the honourary solicitor for the Mount Carmel Clinic Foundation.

• Keith LaBossiere, a partner with Thompson Dorfman Sweatman LLP, has been appointed to the board of directors of St. Mary’s Academy Foundation Inc.

• Matthew Maruca has joined Doctors Manitoba (formerly the Manitoba Medical Association) as an in-house lawyer. 

NEW BRUNSWICK

• 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.

• Brian Perry has joined McInnes Cooper as an associate in Saint John.

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

• 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.

• Cheryl Hodder, a partner with McInnes Cooper, has received a Women of Influence Award. 

• David P.S. Farrar Q.C. has been appointed a judge of the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia, replacing Justice J. Duncan in Digby.

• Peter M.S. Richardson-Bryson Q.C. has been appointed a judge of the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia, replacing Justice D.R. Beveridge in Halifax.

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

• Gregory C. Ludlow and David G. Allsebrook are practising together in LudlowLaw Intellectual Property Law & Advocacy in Toronto. They also have a new In/Sight blog on IP & related legal developments in Canada and abroad on the ludlowlaw.ca web site.

• Glenn Ackerley, a partner at WeirFoulds LLP, has been elected chairman of the Toronto Construction Association.

• Brian Facey, partner at Blake Cassels & Graydon LLP in Toronto, has been named co-chairman of its competition, antitrust & foreign investment group in Canada.

• Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP lawyer Paul Stein has been appointed to a special working group established by the Financial Leadership Council.

• Amy Cull has joined Whaley Estate Litigation in Toronto as an associate.

• Constance Backhouse of Ottawa, a distinguished professor and legal historian; Janet Stewart of London, a lawyer who advocates for the advancement of women in the law; and Ed Ratushny of Ottawa, an expert on the Canadian judiciary have been appointed to the Order of Ontario.

• Tony Fleming, former senior legal counsel for the City of Kingston, has joined Cunningham Swan Carty Little & Bonham LLP in Kingston as partner.

• Jennifer Stam and Eric Reither have been named partners at Ogilvy Renault LLP in Toronto.

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

• Daniel Des Aulniers has joined Lavery de Billy in Quebec City as a partner.

• Pierre T. Nguyen, Nicolas Labrecque, Azim Hussain, and Dominic Belley have been named partners at Ogilvy Renault LLP in Montreal; and Charles Taschereau in Quebec.

• Sylvain Bélair, Robert Potvin, Claude Picard, Claude J.E. Dupont, Sylvain Joannisse, and Stéphanie Thurber have joined De Grandpré Chait in Montreal.

• Stuart H. (Kip) Cobbett has been appointed to a five-year term as chair of McGill University’s board of governors.

• Justice Philippe Kirsch has received the Order of Canada for his contributions to international criminal law especially as president of the International Criminal Court.

• Montreal law firm Leger Robic Richard LLP has changed its name to Robic LLP.

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: Feb. 3, 2010