BarTalk August 2002
Volume 14, Number 4

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 and is subject to the copyright by the British Columbia Branch of the Canadian Bar Association, 2005, all rights reserved.