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Don’t Miss the Online Symposium! - September 2021 Blast Email

Maintaining healthy balance and overall well-being has long been a struggle for lawyers with demanding work schedules, complex and often contentious files, and clients whose legal problems and associated worry can overwhelm those advocating on their behalf.

Stephen Rotstein, President of the Canadian Bar Association wishes to extend his condolences to the family, friends and colleagues of Julia Ferguson who was attacked and stabbed while at work at a Toronto law firm on September 2. She has since succumbed to her injuries.

The CBA’s Access to Justice Subcommittee has selected Madeleine Brown as the winner of its 2021 Volunteer in Profile Award.

Blast Email - September 2021

Blast Email - September 2021

September 2021 Blast Email

Stephen Rotstein of Toronto begins his year-long tenure as President of the Canadian Bar Association today, taking the helm of the 125-year-old Association of over 36,000 lawyers, notaries, law teachers and law students across Canada. He succeeds Bradley D. Regehr, the first Indigenous person to serve as CBA President. Steeves Bujold of Montreal begins his term as Vice-President.

The Canadian Bar Association is deeply concerned about the rapidly deteriorating situation in Afghanistan as the Taliban take control of the country. The fundamental human rights of all Afghans – particularly women, girls and LGBTQI+ populations – are at risk.

The American Bar Association’s Hybrid Annual Meeting in Chicago in August was a great opportunity for Canadian Bar Association President Bradley D. Regehr and CBA Interim CEO Paul D. Paton, Q.C., to celebrate the long history of collaboration between our two associations.