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2025 Judges
Josianne Beaudry
Partner – Leader of the Business Law Group
Lavery
Jacqueline Beckles
General Counsel
Department of Justice Canada and CABL – Board Member
Stephen Beney
Principal
Smart & Biggar
Michael Casey
Senior VP and General Counsel
EllisDon
Peter Castiel
Chair of the Firm
Stikeman Elliott LLP
Bruce Chapple
CEO, Managing Partner
McMillan LLP
Nicholas Cerminaro
Senior Vice President and General Counsel
GardaWorld
George Cooper, KC
Chief Executive Officer and Partner
Cox & Palmer
Lindsay Cox
Partner
Burnet, Duckworth & Palmer, LLP
Bindu Cudjoe
Executive and Board Member
Vincent de l’Etoile
Partner, Litigation Group; Member Board of Directors
Langlois Lawyers, LLP
Martin K. Denyes
Firm Managing Partner
Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP
Frédéric Duguay
General Counsel & Corporate Secretary
Canada Infrastructure Bank (CIB)
Paul Fruitman
Partner
Lax O’Sullivan Lisus Gottlieb LLP
Yonni Fushman
Chief Legal Officer and EVP, Sustainability, Northland Power Inc.
and Past Chair Ontario Bar Association’s Construction and Infrastructure Law section
Conni Gibson
Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary
Interac Corp.
James A Grange
Senior Legal Counsel & Assistant Corporate Secretary
First West Credit Union
Alison Harnick
Senior Vice President, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary and Board Member Women General Counsel Canada
First Capital REIT
Nizam Hasham
Assistant Vice-President, Regulatory and Commercial Law
Canadian Pacific Railway
Sharon Haward-Laird
General Counsel
BMO Financial Group
Kene Ilochonwu, K.C
Bencher
Law Society of Alberta
Monique Jilesen
Managing Partner
Lenczner Slaght
Philippe Johnson
Managing Partner, Montreal
Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP
Kevin Kiley, KC
Managing Partner
McInnes Cooper
Lynn Korbak
Former General Counsel and Corporate Secretary
Toromont Industries Ltd
Mitch Kowalski
Senior Counsel
Greater Toronto Airports Authority
David M. Kramer
Senior Legal Counsel
Suncor Energy Inc.
Arun Krishnamurti
Senior Counsel, Google Canada
and Co-Chair (Corporate Counsel Section) South Asian Bar Association (SABA) of North America
François Lajeunesse
Conseiller juridique principal / Senior Legal Counsel
Desjardins Group
Dale H. Lastman, C.M.
Chair
Goodmans LLP
Christopher Lemon
General counsel
Pan American Silver
Carlton Mathias
Chief Legal, ESG and Governance Officer
Ontario Power Generation
Blair McCreadie
Managing Partner, Toronto
Dentons Canada LLP
Melanie McGrath
General Counsel
CBCL Limited
John G. Murphy
National Managing Partner & CEO
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP (BLG)
Benjamin Na
Partner and Head of the Advocacy Department, Toronto
Gowling WLG (Canada) LLP
Steven Ngo
Sr. Counsel, Consumer Transactions and Advisory Director (Past President)- Federation of Asian Canadian Lawyers BC
Rivian
Lorne O’Reilly, KC
Lead Counsel
Dow Chemical Canada ULC
Benoit Palmer
Chief Counsel, Canadian Mining Businesses- Legal services / Conseiller juridique principal, secteur minier canadien- Services juridiques
Rio Tinto
Heather Platt
Chief Legal Officer
Metrolinx
Karrin A. Powys-Lybbe
Partner
Torys LLP
Emmanuel Pressman
Chair, Corporate Department
Osler Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
Clifford G. Proudfoot, KC
Managing Partner
Lawson Lundell LLP
Dinesh Ramanathan
Senior VP Legal
Fengate Asset Management
Bruce Reynolds
Co-Managing Partner, Mediator and Arbitrator
Singleton Urquhart Reynolds Vogel LLP
Luisa Ritacca
Managing Partner
Stockwoods LLP
Bo Rothstein
Managing Partner
Farris LLP
Shara Roy
Chief Legal Counsel
Ernst & Young LLP
Yasmin Shaker
General Counsel and Corporate Secretary
Invest Ontario
Bryson A. Stokes
Firm Managing Partner
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
David Taniguchi
Vice President, Legal & Corporate Secretary
Enbridge Inc.
Kristin Taylor
Managing Partner
Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP
Jennifer Teskey
Managing Partner, Canada
Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP
Yola Ventresca
Managing Partner – London
Lerners LLP
Yasmin Visram
Senior Director, Legal Teams – Insurance
iA Financial Group
Chris Vollmershausen
EVP, Legal, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary
Agnico Eagle Mines Limited
Patrice Walch-Watson
Senior Managing Director, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary Legal
Canada Pension Plan Investment Board
Andrea Wood
Executive Vice President and Chief Legal and Governance Officer
TELUS
Marisa Wyse
Chief Legal Officer
Rogers Communications
Danielle Young
Chief Counsel, Privacy & Cybersecurity and Global Chief Privacy Officer
Manulife
Caroline Zayid
Managing Partner, Ontario Region
McCarthy Tétrault LLP
