2021 Judges
Gerry Apostolatos
Lawyer, Partner- Montreal; Immediate past co-Chair of Board of Directors
Langlois lawyers, LLP
Marc B. Barbeau
Chair of the Firm
Stikeman Elliott LLP
Stephen Beney
Managing Partner
Bereskin & Parr LLP
Mark T. Bennett
Managing Partner
Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP
Lilac Bosma
Senior Vice President and General Counsel
HSBC Bank Canada
Lydia Bugden, QC
CEO & Managing Partner
Stewart McKelvey
Lynn Burns
Executive Director
Pro Bono Ontario
Gordon Capern
Partner
Paliare Roland Rosenberg Rothstein LLP
Olivier Chouc
Vice-President, Law CN - Law and Office of the Corporate Secretary
Canadian National Railway Company
Jeffrey Cohen
Managing Partner
Torkin Manes LLP
George Cooper, QC
Chief Executive Officer and Partner
Cox & Palmer
Bindu Cudjoe
SVP and General Counsel & Corporate Secretary, CWB Financial Group
and Vice President Women General Counsel Canada
Tom Curry
Managing Partner
Lenczner Slaght Royce Smith Griffin LLP
Stephen J. D'Agostino
Managing Partner
Thomson Rogers
Jeff Davis
Chief Legal & Corporate Affairs Officer
Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan
Daniel Desjardins AD.E
Chairman Bombardier Transportation
Bombardier Inc
Peter Feldberg
Firm Managing Partner
Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP
Yonni Fushman
Executive Vice President, CLO & Secretary, Aecon Group Inc.
and Past Chair Ontario Bar Association’s Construction and Infrastructure Law section
Fernando Garcia
Vice President, Legal
Cargojet
Kara Russell Goldsmith
Senior Legal Counsel
Rogers Communications Inc.
Matthew Gottlieb
Managing Partner
Lax O'Sullivan Lisus Gottlieb LLP
Deborah Greenberg
Chief Information Officer, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC)
and Quebec Chapter Leader - Women General Counsel Canada
David Gunasekera
Managing Partner
DuMoulin Black LLP
Elspeth Hagan
General Counsel, Global Compliance, McCain Foods Limited
and President - Women General Counsel Canada
Sharon Haward-Laird
General Counsel
BMO Financial Group
Dr. Ian Holloway PC QC PhD
Professor and Dean of Law
The University of Calgary
Shari Hosaki
Vice-president, General Counsel &Secretary- Legal Affairs
HarperCollins Canada and Harlequin
Charles E. Hurdon
Managing Partner - Canada
Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP
Dominique Hussey
Vice Chair, Toronto Managing Partner
Bennett Jones LLP
Philippe Johnson
Managing Partner, Montreal
Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP
Melissa Kennedy
Executive Vice-President and Chief Legal Officer, Sun Life Financial
and Founding member - Legal Leaders for Diversity
Jeffrey Jay Kay Q.C.
Managing Partner
Farris LLP
Kevin J. Kiley
Managing Partner
McInnes Cooper
Lynn Korbak
General Counsel and Corporate Secretary
Toromont Industries Ltd
James Kosa
Partner, Technology and IP
WeirFoulds LLP
Justin Kutyan
National Leader and Senior Partner
KPMG Law LLP
Keith David LaBossiere
CEO & Managing Partner
Thompson Dorfman Sweatman LLP
Michael Ladha
Legal Counsel & Assistant Corporate Secretary
Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro
Dale H. Lastman, C.M.
Chair
Goodmans LLP
Kikelomo Lawal
Executive Vice-President and Chief Legal Officer
CIBC
Mark Le Blanc
General Counsel
TVO
Jean-François Legault
Chief Legal & Risk Officer and Corporate Secretary
VIA Rail Canada
Tony Linardi
General Counsel
Golder Associates Ltd.
Av Maharaj
Vice President HR, Corporate and Legal Affairs
KraftHeinz Canada
Blair McCreadie
Managing Partner, Toronto
Dentons Canada LLP
Andrew McLaughlin
Vice President – Legal Affairs & General Counsel
Major Drilling
Ashok Menen
Investigation Counsel Ontario Securities Commission
and Director South Asian Bar Association of Toronto
John G. Murphy
National Managing Partner & CEO
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
Peter V. Nguyen
SVP Legal, Associate General Counsel & Assistant Corporate Secretary, Descartes Systems Group
and Founder GC Forum
Kerry O’Reilly Wilks
Chief Officer, Legal, Regulatory & External Affairs
TransAlta Corporation
Lorne O'Reilly
Lead Counsel, Dow Chemical Canada ULC
and VP & Treasurer and Member of the Board of Directors- Alberta Chapter, Association of Corporate Counsel
Paul Paton, Q.C., JSD
Thomas W. Lawlor QC Professor of Law and Ethics Faculty of Law, University of Alberta Visiting Scholar, American Bar Foundation (2019-20)
University of Alberta
Janice Payne
Partner
Nelligan O'Brien Payne LLP
Mark Persaud
Senior Legal Counsel, Persaud Law Group
and Justice Committee – Co-Chair- The BlackNorth Initiative
Leola Pon
In-House Counsel
Toronto District School Board
Karrin A. Powys-Lybbe
Partner
Torys LLP
Emmanuel Pressman
Chair, Corporate Department
Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
Clifford G. Proudfoot, QC
Managing Partner
Lawson Lundell LLP
Poonam Puri
Professor of Law, Osgoode Hall Law School
York University
Dorothy Quann
Chair of the Law & Business Advocacy Council
Ted Rogers School of Management
Terra Rebick
Chief Counsel
Thomson Reuters
Nathalie Rizcalla
VP HR, Corporate and Legal Affairs
Pelican International
Tanya Rothe
General Counsel
D-Wave Systems Inc.
Melanie Schweizer
VP - Legal
Bell Canada
Robert Seidel, Q.C.
Canada Managing Partner
DLA Piper (Canada) LLP
Godyne N.L. Sibay
Managing Partner, Ontario Region
McCarthy Tétrault LLP
Philip Shaer
Chief Legal Officer
Canopy Growth Corp
Julia Shin Doi
General Counsel, Secretary of the Board of Governors and University Privacy Officer
Ryerson University
Lisa Skakun
General Counsel and Chief Corporate Development Officer
Coast Capital Savings
Anne Spafford
Toronto Managing Partner
Lerners LLP
Margot Spence
Manager, Corporate Law, ICBC
and Chair- Canadian Corporate Counsel Association
Bryson A. Stokes
National Managing Partner
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
Raphael Tachie
Senior Counsel
TD Bank
Vice President
Canadian Association of Black Lawyers (CABL)
Abigail Turner
Partner
Harper Grey LLP
Michael Williams
Chief Risk and Compliance Officer, General Counsel
Richardson Wealth
Hilda Wong
Senior Vice President and General Counse, First National Financial LP
and Secretary Women General Counsel Canada
Andrea Wood
Chief Legal and Governance Officer
TELUS
Steven Zakem
Managing Partner
Aird & Berlis LLP