For Immediate Release
August 4, 2005
OTTAWA – Dick Pound, Chairman of the World Anti-Doping Agency and one of Time Magazine's 100 most influential people in the world, will be the closing keynote speaker at the Canadian Corporate Counsel Association (CCCA) Annual Meeting Conference in Vancouver on Aug. 16.
Mr. Pound will also moderate a unique opening plenary session on Aug. 15, where former Olympians Blair Horn, Tricia Smith, George Hungerford and Alan Hobkirk will discuss how athletics helped them become successful lawyers. Other speakers include Brian Tobin, former federal Minister and Premier of Newfoundland and Charmaine Crooks, Canadian Olympic track & field medalist.
In keeping with year’s theme, Building Winning Teams and Effective Legal Strategies, the conference workshops will focus on how corporate counsel can organize teams to be more efficient and boost value to their departments. The meeting is being co-chaired by Sandra Jakab, Manager of Policy, Capital Markets Regulation for the British Columbia Securities Commission, and Anna Fung, Q.C., Senior Counsel for Terasen Inc.
Other highlights include workshops on safeguarding your executive team, managing a law department, Aboriginal law, using non-legal advisors as underwriters and accountants, diversity in the workplace, corporate counsel ethics, U.S. law, as well as a chief legal officer’s roundtable.
The CCCA workshops are part of a comprehensive program that runs from Aug. 14-16 in conjunction with the Canadian Bar Association (CBA) Canadian Legal Conference. Allan Rock, Canada's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, delivers the CBA Conference opening plenary on Aug. 14. The CBA program features more than 20 educational programs for lawyers and judges.
The Third Annual CCCA–YLC Fun Run/Walk for charity takes place Sunday, Aug. 14 at 9 a.m. All proceeds from the Fun Run/Walk go to the Sarah McLachlan Music Outreach Program.
Established in 1988, the Canadian Corporate Counsel Association is a conference of the CBA. Its mission is to provide a national forum and voice for in house counsel to advance the development of their practice of law and enhance their professional skills and careers. The Association currently has a membership of more than 8,400.
For more information on the CBA’s 2005 Canadian Legal Conference, please visit http://www.cba.org/cba/annualmeeting/2005_annual.
Programs are open to accredited media. Sessions for the CCCA Conference take place at the Fairmont Waterfront Hotel. Further details are available online at http://www.cancorpcounsel.org.
Media accreditation may be obtained by contacting the CBA National Office in Ottawa at (613) 237-2925, ext. 146/155 until Aug. 11. The on-site Media Room can be reached at (604) 647-7408 from Friday, Aug. 12 at noon, until Tuesday, Aug. 16 at noon.
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CONTACT: Effie J. Triantafilopoulos, Executive Director, Canadian Corporate Counsel Association; Tel: 416-869-1020 Fax: 416-869-0946 E-mail: etrianta@ccca-cba.org
Silvie Kuppek, Acting Director of Professional Development, Canadian Corporate Counsel Association; Tel: 416-869-0020 Fax: 416-869-0946 Email: skuppek@ccca-cba.org
