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Steve McKersie, Law’98, is now in the second year of his six-year term as CEO of Gowling WLG (Canada) LLP, the first-ever multi-national law firm co-led by British and Canadian operations. (Photo by Rachael Reid)

Legacy of Gowlings giants continues

Steve McKersie, Law’98, CEO of Gowling WLG (Canada) LLP, shares how mentorship and relationship-building have shaped his career and leadership philosophy.

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BLSA-Queen’s President Uche Umolu, Law’25 (far left), Dainelle Barham, Law’23 (fourth right), and some of their fellow club members met last fall to start discussing the group’s activities for the year.

Recognizing Black Histories and Futures Month

BLSA-Queen’s will be offering and participating in events and activities that are academic-related and designed to reflect the beauty in the Black culture.

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Law’80 Careers in Business Law panelists Heather Bonnell, Law’20, Brad Allgood, Law’10, and Kelley McKinnon, Law’88, discuss the legal dimensions of environmental, social and governance issues and why they matter on Jan. 23 in the Queen’s Law Building. (Photo by Natalie Moniz-Henne)

Alumni provide insight on increasingly key boardroom priority

Law’80 Careers in Business Law panelists Heather Bonnell, Law’20, Brad Allgood, Law’10, and Kelley McKinnon, Law’88, discuss the legal dimensions of ESG issues and why they matter.

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Students in Professor Lindsay Borrows’ Indigenous Law in Practice class practice the Indigenous legal method of drawing out law from nature while canoeing on Elbow Lake.

Learning law on the land

Students in Professor Borrows' class practice the Indigenous legal method of drawing out law from nature at Elbow Lake.

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The first students selected for the new Criminal Appellate Internship program – Madeleine Cleland, Robin Ketchesen, Jason Kwast, Varda Anwar, and Amber St. Jean, all Law’23 – and their academic supervisor, Professor Lisa Kerr, in the Law Building atrium. (Photo by Natalie Moniz-Henne)

New program to help equip aspiring criminal lawyers

Students will be mentored by some of Canada’s leading defense lawyers while contributing to access to justice in the new Criminal Appellate Internship program.

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Oct. 16, 2019: A ceremony at the K’ómoks Bighouse in the Comox Valley on Vancouver Island, marks the first legally binding contract ratified by a Canadian Crown corporation through Indigenous legal traditions. (Photo by Media One)

Indigenous law and legal traditions finding new Canadian context

Six legal experts weigh in on revitalizing Indigenous people’s ways of knowing, being, and doing to carve out space for their laws.

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Lexpert’s ‘Leading Lawyers Under 40’ include Heidi Gordon, Law’10; Pam Hrick, Law’13; Brian Kolenda, Law’10; Amrita V. Singh, Law’12; and Emily Ting, Law’10.

Five young alumni are among Lexpert’s 2022 'Rising Stars'

Grads who are shining brightly on the Canadian legal landscape are included on Lexpert magazine’s annual list of “Rising Stars – Leading Lawyers Under 40.”

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Celebrating the Queen’s undergraduate Certificate in Law program’s fifth anniversary with Academic Director Hugo Choquette, Law’05, LLM’10, PhD17 (top left), and Program Coordinator Amanda Blair (bottom left), are students and graduates from across Canada and as far away as India and China.

Certificate in Law program turns 5

Queen’s celebrates a half-decade of equipping undergraduate students and professionals with a foundational understanding of the law essential for today’s knowledge economy.

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Lawyers from local firm Cunningham Swan, this year’s National Philanthropy Day Award as Outstanding Corporation, shown in 2019 when they presented Queen’s Law Clinics lawyers with a cheque in the amount of $125,000 to “support the legal services that law students provide to the community through the clinics, and the excellent training that the clinics, in turn, provide to future lawyers.”

Cunningham Swan honoured for long history of giving back

A leading southeastern Ontario full-service law firm with close ties to Queen’s Law is recognized for supporting access to justice.

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Queen’s Law Dean Mark Walters and International Inter-Tribal Trade and Investment Organization President Wayne Garnons-Williams, Law’90, shake hands after signing a memorandum of understanding to form a strategic alliance on Oct 31.

Partnership to boost Indigenous trade initiatives

A new alliance will allow the school and International Inter-Tribal Trade and Investment Organization to partner with Canadian First Nations and American tribes to research and develop tools that focus on helping exercise the inherent Indigenous right of intertribal trade along the Canada-U.S. border.

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Wes Hall, LLD’22, had an exclusive “motivational” talk with members of the Black Law Students’ Association-Queen’s in Goodes Hall.

The ‘King of Bay Street’ brings his message to Queen’s

After receiving a Queen’s honorary LLD, Canadian business icon Wes Hall met with Black Law Students’ Association-Queen’s members, offered feedback to “Gaels’ Den” students, and engaged in a fireside chat with Nigel Masenda, Law’20.

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Supreme Court Justice Malcolm Rowe explains to students and faculty how he harbors no doubts about the ability and willingness of this country’s legislatures and courts to respond to changing public needs in fair and equitable ways.

SCC justice says courts have a role in building a fairer, more inclusive Canada

Supreme Court Justice Malcolm Rowe explains to students and faculty how he harbors no doubts about the ability and willingness of Canada's legislatures and courts to respond to changing public needs in fair and equitable ways.

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