Year in Review – A year of boutiques and behemoths
Omar Ha-Redeye’s column in the Lawyers Weekly covered the changing legal landscape in the year in review focus.
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The Lawyers Climbed Up the Mountain
The lawyers of Borden, Ladner, Gervais LLP are climbing up the mountain of Africa, Mount Kilimanjaro, for a charity project.
Listen to the podcast with Christopher Bredt on Law is Cool.
The Six-Minute Employment Lawyer 2010
The Law Society of Upper Canada (LSUC) hosted The Six-Minute Employment Lawyer.
Chairs of the event were Malcolm J. MacKillop of Shields O’Donnell MacKillop LLP and Christine M. Thomlinson of Rubin Thomlinson LLP.
Speakers included:
The Honourable Madam Justice Susan G. Himel of the Superior Court of Justice
Sharan K. Basran, Legal Counsel, Manager of Legal Services, Human Rights Legal Support Centre
Scott D. Bergman, Cooper and Sandler LLP
Lauren M. Bernardi, Bernardi Human Resource Law
Matthew L.O. Certosimo, Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
Richard J. Charney, C.S., Ogilvy Renault LLP
Mary Beth Currie, Bennett Jones LLP
Michael P. Fitzgibbon, Watershed LLP
Jeffrey Goodman, Heenan Blaikie LLP
M. Norman Grosman, Grosman, Grosman & Gale LLP
Michael F. Horvat, Ogilvy Renault LLP
Malcolm J. MacKillop of Shields O’Donnell MacKillop LLP
Natasha A. V. Miklaucic, Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
Jim Patterson, Bennett Jones LLP
Michael E. Royce, Lenczner Slaght Royce Smith Griffin LLP
Janice Rubin, Rubin Thomlinson LLP
Stuart E. Rudner, Miller Thomson LLP
Christine M. Thomlinson, Rubin Thomlinson LLP
Elizabeth Traynor, Siskinds LLP
Michael D. Wright, Cavalluzzo Hayes Shilton McIntyre & Cornish LLP
Andrea York, Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
Loreta Zubas, LLM, C.S., Zubas + Associates
Essentials of Governance for Public Sector Boards
Omar Ha-Redeye completed a training session at the Ontario Hospital Association (OHA) on the Essentials of Governance for Public Sector Boards.
The session was conducted by Jim Mackay of the Berkley Consulting Group and Anne Corbett of Borden, Ladner, Gervais LLP.
An overview of the public sector landscape was provided, as well as the role that a board plays in an organization. The legal obligations and duties of directors were covered, as well as how to effectively conduct board meetings and play a director role.
The training also included several role-playing scenarios, and an expert panel featuring: Linda Lamereux, a lawyer sitting on the Health Services and Appeal Review Board and the Health Professions Appeal & Review Board; John Bell, a partner at Shibley Righton LLP with considerable board experience in the public sector; and Helen Hayward, who currently sits on the Board of Governors for Seneca College.
Canadian Lawyer on Online Client Development
Glenn Kauth of Canadian Lawyer magazine mentioned Omar Ha-Redeye in the current June 2009 issue,
Even law students are using the Twitter-blog combination to get their names out there and position themselves in the field. Omar Ha-Redeye, a second-year student at the University of Western Ontario law school, has garnered a lot of attention through his blog as well as through the web sites Law is Cool and Slaw, too, which he says is already benefiting him as he develops a reputation well before he graduates. “I have lots of informal mentorships with lots of lawyers practising in the field.”
The article also interviewed Erik Magraken of MacIsaac & Co, Deborah Glendinning of Osler Hoskin & Harcourt LLP, Rick Powers of the Rotman School of Management, Simone Hughes at Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, Michael Rabinovici of AR Communications Inc, Dan Michaluk and Susan Carnevale of Hicks Morley Hamilton Stewart Storie LLP, Michael Rynowecer of BTI Consulting Group Inc., and David Diamond of Diamond & Diamond Lawyers.
A review of the piece by Omar Ha-Redeye can be found on Slaw.
Love and Marriage? An Employment Law Refresher
This workshop is designed to give participants the tools they need to advise on the hot button employment law issues that they may face through all stages of the employment relationship, given the new developments in the areas of privacy and human rights and damages for wrongful dismissal. This workshop will benefit corporate counsel as well as any practitioner who deals with employment law issues from time to time.
| Co-Chairs | |
| Sean M. Kennedy, Senior Regional Counsel, Legal Affairs, Central & Western Regions, Canada Post Corporation | |
| Terrie-Lynne Devonish, Chief Counsel, Aon Canada Inc. | |
| Full Program Agenda | |
| Introductory Remarks 9:00 am
The Courtship: Key Issues Arising in the Pre-hiring Process 9:05 am The Marriage: What’s Mine is Yours? 9:45 am Break 10:45 am The Divorce: New Developments in Employee Terminations 11:00 am Lunch 12:15 pm |
A Career in Acting?
During the past week, Omar Ha-Redeye volunteered his time to play the role of a witness/client during law school competitions.
On Nov. 19, he played a witness for the finals in the Cherniak Cup. Chief Justice Helen A. Rady of the Superior Court of Justice in n judged the competition, and mentioned to Omar during the reception that followed that based on his performance he should consider a career in acting. Quite often though there is not much of a difference between a lawyer and an actor when they are advocating before the court.
On Nov. 20, he was a client for the BLG Client Counseling Competition, a role he played because he won the competition last year. As a distraught client he broke down and cried three times for the finalists. The last time he actually produced real tears. The competition was won by Daliana Coban and Pamela Vlasic, who will represent UWO at the ABA Regional Competition in Feb. 2009.
Competition director Prof. Erika Chamberlain said,
This is a highly important practical skill – regardless of practice area. Lawyers must be able to interact with clients and make them feel confident that the lawyer will meet their needs.
One of the BLG lawyers that observed this also said later in the evening, with no foreknowledge of Rady J.’s statement the night before, that acting might be a promising option.
Could law school be the new prep school for actors?
Torys LLP Negotiation Competition Finalist
Omar Ha-Redeye qualified as a finalist in the Torys LLP Negotiation Competition.
The University of Western Ontario describes the event,
In mid-September, interested students sign up (in teams of two) to participate in the competition. Teams are provided with a negotiation problem and a detailed outline of their fictitious clients’ interests, which they are able to study for a limited period prior to Preliminary Rounds. At the Preliminary Rounds, students negotiate with opposing teams while being observed by lawyers from Torys LLP, who assess the students’ negotiation strategies. The goal of these negotiation is to advance client interests while achieving outcomes that are acceptable to opposing counsel. The negotiations are largely “free form”, with very few rules governing student conduct.
Winners of the competition proceed to represent UWO at the ABA Negotiations Competition.
Omar Ha-Redeye competed this year with Amelia Phillips-Lewis. He partnered with Amelia last year to win the Borden Ladner Gervais LLP Client Counselling Competition, and represented the school at the ABA Client Counseling Competition.
Disruptive Doctors or Abusive Administrators?
On Tuesday, June 17, 2008, Omar Ha-Redeye attended the Ontario Bar Association (OBA) Health Law Section‘s year-end dinner.
The event featured a debate over the Ontario Hospital Association and the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario’s report released in April, 2008, Guidebook for Managing Disruptive Physician Behaviour.
The report states,
Disruptive behaviour is demonstrated when inappropriate conduct, whether in words or action, interferes with, or has the potential to interfere with, quality health care delivery. Disruptive behaviour may, in rare circumstances, be demonstrated in a single egregious act (for example, a physical assault of a co-worker)1 but is more often composed of a pattern of behaviour. The gravity of disruptive behaviour depends on the nature of the behaviour, the context in which it arises, and the consequences flowing from it.
Four representatives from both sides of the issue, the physicians versus hospital administrators and medical directors, engaged in a debate on disputes that arise in healthcare settings.
The event was moderated by Dr. David Cameron a lawyer-physician of Cameron Health Law Consulting.
Participants included:
• John Morris, Borden Ladner Gervais, LLP
• Dr. Ken Melvin, UHN
• Tracey Tremayne-Lloyd, Gardiner Roberts LLP
• Lisa Constantine, McCarthy Tetrault LLP
Dr. Cameron provided a summary of the event on the OBA Health Matters newsletter.
ABA Client Counseling Competition
The American Bar Association (ABA) Client Counseling Competition for Region 6 was held this year the Thomas L. Cooley Law School in Lansing, Michigan.
Omar Ha-Redeye and Amelia Phillips-Lewis represented the University of Western Ontario as winners of the school’s Borden Ladner Gervais LLP Client Counselling Competition.
They were the top-seeded team through the preliminary rounds, with nearly 33% margin over second place, before being eliminated in the semi-finals. Three Canadian teams made it to the regional semi-finals.
Canadian Competitors at Region 6: (From Left) Maria Barrett-Morris from Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP (UofO Coach), Ellie Persichilli and Jyll Hansen (UofO), Omar Ha-Redeye and Amelia Phillips-Lewis (UWO), Russ Groves and Danielle Bisnar (Osgoode).
