Alan Acton

Alan Acton is a financial adviser in Ottawa and can be reached at alan.acton@actonfinancial.ca.

Column: Financial Adviser

Lee Akazaki

Lee Akazaki is a bilingual civil litigator and a partner at Gilbertson Davis Emerson LLP, with a focus on commercial litigation, insurance and professional liability.  A past-president of the Ontario Bar Association, he advocates for a fearless and independent bar and the advancement of women and equity-seeking groups. His blog, leeakazaki.com, is devoted to mentoring new lawyers. He can be reached at lakazaki@gilbertsondavis.com and on Twitter @LeeAkazaki.

Column: The Accidental Mentor

Kirk Baert

Kirk M. Baert is is a partner at Koskie Minsky LLP in Toronto and a member of the firm’s Executive Committee. His practice focuses on plaintiff-side class actions. He can be reached at kbaert@kmlaw.ca.

Column: Class Acts

Lauren Berdock

Lauren Berdock is currently enrolled in her second year at Osgoode Hall Law School and is vice chairwoman of events of the Criminal Law Society. She would love to hear any and all feedback, funny anecdotes or success stories and can be contacted via e-mail at LaurenBerdock@osgoode.yorku.ca.

Column: Legally Brunette

Danya Cohen

Danya Cohen is a legal consultant with Toronto-based recruiter RainMaker Group. She can be reached at danyac@rainmakergroup.ca.

Column: Career Path

Sarah Dale-Harris

Sarah Dale-Harris is corporate counsel at Accenture Inc. and can be reached at sarah.dale-harris@accenture.com or at 416-641-3151. The opinions expressed in this article are those of the author alone.

Column: The IT Girl

Debra Forman

Cheryl Foy

Cheryl Foy is general counsel to ViXS Systems Inc. in Toronto, Ontario and can be reached by e-mail at cfoy@vixs.com.

Column: Practising In-house

Stephen Mabey

Stephen Mabey, CA is managing director of Applied Strategies Inc., which has a long-term contract to provide the chief operating officer function to Atlantic Canada law firm Stewart McKelvey. As well, Applied Strategies works with small to mid-sized law firms outside of Atlantic Canada providing strategic tactics planning, crisis management, organizational development, financial analysis, and private coaching to lawyers involved in law-firm management. He has written articles on leadership, marketing, key performance indicators, practice transitioning, business intelligence, emotional quotient, and downsizing, which have been published in various legal industry periodicals.

Column: Definitely Mabey

Jennifer Nees

Jennifer Nees is a Toronto-based business immigration lawyer working with Egan LLP. She is also past-chairwoman of the Canadian chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, and has served on the Executive of the Ontario Bar Association's Immigration and IT sections. She can be reached at Jennifer.Nees@ca.ey.com.

Sonya Nigam

Sonya Nigam is the executive director of the Human Rights Research and Education Centre at the University of Ottawa. She can be reached at snigam@uottawa.ca

Column: Human Rights . . . Here & There

David A. Paul

David A. Paul, QC, is senior lawyer and mediator who practises at the boutique law firm Paul & Co. in downtown Kamloops, B.C. His firm’s web site is www.kamloopslaw.com and he can be reached at (250)828-9998.

Column: David Paul's Field Notes

Damian J. Penny

Damian J. Penny, a native of Mt. Pearl, Nfld., is a family law practitioner with Bedford Law in Bedford, N.S. His blog can be found at www.damianpenny.com, and his Twitter feed at www.twitter.com/damianpenny. He  can be reached at damian@bedfordlaw.com.

Column: Law Library

Lindsay Scott

Lindsay Scott is a first-year associate at litigation boutique Paliare Roland Rosenberg Rothstein LLP in Toronto. Lindsay’s column will focus on her first year of legal practice, and all that comes with it. She welcomes your feedback and can be reached at lindsay.scott@paliareroland.com.

Margaret L. Waddell

is a senior partner at Paliare Roland Rosenberg Rothstein LLP in Toronto.  She has a varied advocacy practice including a broad range of complex commercial and shareholder litigation, professional liability cases, class actions and appellate advocacy.  She can be reached at marg.waddell@paliareroland.com.

Column: Trials & Tribulations

Tony Wilson

Tony Wilson is a franchise, licensing, and intellectual property lawyer at Boughton in Vancouver and an adjunct professor at Simon Fraser University. He is a regular business law columnist with The Globe and Mail and other publications. He is also the author of Manage Your Online Reputation, a book written to guide individuals and businesses on how to monitor and protect their personal and corporate reputations on social media.

Column: Letter from Law Law Land