Press Releases & Statements

The Canadian Bar Association’s Canadian Corporate Counsel Association announced its roster of award winners for 2016.

Jeremy Millard, Legal Director of Uber Canada and Madam Justice Suzanne Côté, Supreme Court of Canada, will headline the Canadian Bar Association’s Canadian Corporate Counsel Association 2016 National Conference.

The Canadian Bar Association is partnering with MaRS' legal innovation cluster LegalX to launch an event at the CBA’s Legal Conference this summer in Ottawa.

The Canadian Bar Association has adopted model business principles to combat forced labour, labour trafficking and illegal or harmful child labour that will help lawyers in private practice and in-house counsel to encourage their business clients to guard against labour abuses in their operations.

The President of the Canadian Bar Association, Janet Fuhrer of Ottawa, will visit CBA-Yukon (CBA-Y) in Whitehorse from Feb.24 to 26, where she will speak to lawyers about improving access to justice issues, particularly as they affect Indigenous people.

Mark L. Berlin, Professor of Practice at McGill University’s Institute for the Study of International Development, is the winner of the CBA's 2016 Douglas Miller Award.

The 2016 Lenczner Slaght/Canadian Bar Association (CBA) Gale Cup Moot, one of Canada’s most prestigious bilingual law school mooting competitions, takes place February 19-20 at Osgoode Hall in Toronto, with 20 law schools from across Canada participating.

The Canadian Bar Association announced its roster of award winners for 2016.

Lisa Addario, a senior legal counsel with the Public Service Alliance of Canada in Ottawa, is the winner of the Canadian Bar Association’s 2016 Touchstone Award.

The CBA has named Mark Aitken of the Department of Justice of the Government of the Northwest Territories in Yellowknife, winner of the 2016 John Tait Award of Excellence.