February

While the relentless nature of a lawyer’s workday can sometimes be evocative of a treadmill, the fact is that treadmills don’t factor enough into most lawyers’ lives. Nor do exercise balls, weights, walking, running, yoga, swimming – or whatever other physical activity floats your boat.

Vegas, baby. It’s a place where you go big or go home.

September means back to school, and also the fall season of conferences meetings. Does your section have a conferences meeting coming up?

The CBA held its 99th annual meeting on Thursday, Aug. 17 at the Fairmont Queen Elizabeth in Montreal, 121 years after a group of lawyers from across the country gathered in that city to lay the foundation of a national association for the legal profession.

The new Pensions & Benefits Section Executive Committee members assume their roles on September 1.

Incoming President Kerry Simmons outlines her priorities for the next year in her speech to the Annual Meeting in Montreal. If you weren’t able to be there, or participate from a hub, read on to see what she has in store for 2017-18.

Maureen Whelly Mills Q.C. of Riverview is the 2017 recipient of the Canadian Bar Association’s President’s Award which recognizes the significant contribution of a Canadian jurist to the legal profession, the CBA, or the public life of Canada.

The Foundation for Legal Research has awarded the 2017 Walter Owen Book Prize to Caitlin Pakosh, senior staff lawyer at Innocence Canada, for the book The Lawyer’s Guide to the Forensic Sciences, published in 2016 by Irwin Law.

Kerry Simmons, Q.C., of Victoria, BC, will take over as president of the Canadian Bar Association on August 17 when the chain of office is transferred from outgoing president René Basque of Moncton, N.B., at the CBA Annual Meeting.

CBA News | August 2017