Mundiavocat

Congratulations to “Team Vancouvère” of this year’s Mundiavocat, an international soccer tournament for lawyers. The tournament, which took place in Malta, saw 1,150 lawyers on 42 teams from 22 countries vie for glory. In 2000, Team Canada finished 28th of 44 teams; this year they finished 19th, manoeuvring past teams from Argentina, France, Germany and Italy!

Team members included:

• Khaled Abdel-Barr, Lawson Lundell
• Shawn Bobb, Guilford Law Group
• Kinji Bourchier, Lawson Lundell
• Craig Chiasson, Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
• Karl Chowscano, Thorsteinssons
• Stephen Gibson, Guilford Law Group
• Nick Hopewell, Singleton Urquhart
• Jonathan Jones, Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP
• David Lecovin, Heenan Blaikie
• Brent Loewen, Blake Cassels & Graydon LLP
• Richard Lord, Davis & Company
• Andrew Morrison, Shields Harney
• Scott Murtha, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
• John Natale, Manulife Financial
• Karl Pires, Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
• Mark Platteel, Blake Cassels & Graydon LLP
• Mark Wang, BC Securities Commission
• Neal Wang, Blake Cassels & Graydon LLP

This article was published in the August 2002 issue of BarTalk. © 2002 The Canadian Bar Association. All rights reserved.