Recent Events  

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LSS Lecture:

Jordan Furlong, Law '93

"The future of the legal marketplace (and your place in it)"

Friday, January 21, 1:00-2:30 pm
Macdonald Hall, Room 201

Today's law students are graduating into a profession facing fundamental change and a competitive environment entirely unlike what any graduating class has seen before. The combined impact of the recession, globalization, technological advances and generational change have spawned an array of low-cost legal service providers and empowered clients to an unprecedented degree. The result will look like a revolution in how lawyers work and how legal services are created, sold and delivered. This presentation will describe the enormous changes underway in the marketplace, forecast the probable shape of the future legal profession, and offer advice and insights about how law students should prepare now.

Jordan Furlong, Law '93, has spoken to law firms and legal organizations throughout North America on how to survive and profit from the extraordinary changes underway in the legal services marketplace. Formerly the award-winning editor of the Canadian Bar Association's National magazine, he is a partner with Edge International, a senior consultant with Stem Legal, and a blogger at Law21: Dispatches from a Legal Profession on the Brink(http://law21.ca), honoured three straight years by the ABA Journal as one of North America’s 100 best law blogs.

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Queen's Jewish Law Students' Association Lecture:

Edward L. Greenspan, Q.C. , L.L.D., D.C.L.

"The International Criminal Court: Political Fashion Hiding Behind a Mask of Justice"

Thursday, January 13, 7:30 pm
Biosciences Complex, Room 1101
116 Arch Street, Queen's University

Edward L. Greenspan, senior partner in the Toronto law firm Greenspan Partners, is one of Canada's best known lawyers and advocates of the rights of accused persons. He has represented some of Canada's most controversial and high-profile defendants, including former Nova Scotia Premier Gerald Regan; theatre magnate Garth Drabinsky; business mogul Karlheinz Schreiber; and 'mercy killer' Robert Latimer.

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Co-sponsored by Queen's Law and Irving and Regina Rosen

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Prof. Ian B. Lee,
Faculty of Law, University of Toronto

"Corporate Law and Public Law"

January 22, 2010 at 1:00 p.m.
Macdonald Hall, Room 515

Ian B. Lee is an associate professor at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. He was called to the bar in Ontario in 1997 and in New York in 1999, and holds a B.Com. and an LL.B. from the University of Toronto and an LL.M. from the Harvard Law School. He  clerked with Justice Claire L'Heureux-Dubé of the Supreme Court of Canada and Justice Mark MacGuigan of the Federal Court of Appeal. He has also served as a legal researcher with the Privy Council Office, and practised with Sullivan & Cromwell LLP in Paris, France, and New York, New York before joining the Faculty of Law in 2003. His teaching and research interests are in the areas of constitutional law and corporate law.

Sponsored by the Law '80 Visiting Lecturer Fund. Established in June 2006 by members of the Class of Law '80, the Fund supports bringing speakers with an emphasis on business and/or international business areas of expertise to the Faculty of Law campus.

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Justice Thomas Cromwell, Mus '73, Law '76, visits Queen's Law

Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Wallace Hall, John Deutsch University Centre, and Macdonald Hall Student Lounge

Justice Thomas Cromwell, the first Queen's Law graduate appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada, returned for a Q&A session and a reception with students, alumni, faculty and staff.

News Story: Supreme Court Justice Cromwell returns to alma mater
Photo Gallery 

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Panel Discussion of BCE Inc. v. 1976 Debenture Holders

Wednesday, April 8, 2009, 9:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.

Queen’s University, Policy Studies Building, Room 202
Generously sponsored by the Law '80 Visiting Lecturer Fund

BCE Inc., decided by the Supreme Court of Canada in June 2008, is one of the most important corporate law cases in recent memory. The case involved the largest leveraged buyout in Canadian history and was heard by three levels of courts in less than a year. The recently released reasons of the Supreme Court reveal a distinctive conception of the corporation and an important analysis of the oppression remedy.  The panel discussion featured three lawyers who argued the case before the SCC:

• Alexander Moore, Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP, counsel for BCE Inc. and Bell Canada;
• Paul Macdonald, McMillan LLP, counsel for the Group of 1997 Debenture Holders; and
• John Finnigan, Thornton Grout Finnigan LLP, for the Group of 1976 Debenture Holders and Group of 1996 Debenture Holders.

The panellists reviewed the history of the case and the parties’ arguments before the SCC, and considered the implications of the decision.

The panel was hosted by distinguished business law scholar Professor Christopher Nicholls, a member of the Faculty of Law at the University of Western Ontario.

Lunch with students and local alumni followed the panel in the student lounge in Macdonald Hall. 

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