At a Vancouver reception, Dean Mark Walters, Law’89 (far right), met alumni, who are proud that “Queen’s Law faculty and students have punched above their weight class for many years” and expect that will continue under his leadership.
At a Vancouver reception, Dean Mark Walters, Law’89 (far right), met alumni, who are proud that “Queen’s Law faculty and students have punched above their weight class for many years” and expect that will continue under his leadership.


Grads from the 1970s to the spring of 2019 proved there is no generation gap among Queen’s alumni at Fasken’s west coast office on November 5. There, in the heart of Vancouver’s business district, they re-connected, made new friends and met Dean Mark Walters, Law’89, during his first official visit to the city. 

“It was great to see so many alumni from diverse generations at the event,” says Manjot Hallen, Law’04, a partner with Warnett Hallen LLP. “Everyone was excited to hear from the new Dean.” 

Dean Mark Walters, Law’89, presented the latest school developments: its increasingly diverse student body; a 95 per cent placement rate of JD students for three running, the ever-popular undergraduate Certificate in Law program; the new Graduate Diploma in Immigration and Citizenship; and the Graduate Diploma in Legal Services Management for law students and junior lawyers.

For Ian Donaldson, QC, Law'84, founder of Donaldson's, “It was nice to see the new Dean – as it turns out some of his classmates are old friends of mine in Vancouver. Queen’s Law faculty and students have punched above their weight class for many years and I expect that under the new Dean this will continue.”

Hallen plans to help to make that happen as the newest advisor on the B.C. Alumni Council. “I decided to join the BC council as a way to give back to the Queen’s Law community, he says. “I look forward to working with our new Dean and other Queen’s Law alumni to ensure that Queen’s remains one of the best law schools in Canada.” 

That school pride is something shared by the alumni from five decades who gathered for the reception hosted by Keith Spencer, Law’87, a partner with Fasken, Martineau DuMoulin LLP, in B.C.’s largest city. 

“It was lovely to see old colleagues, some now retired, whom I have not seen for years,” says Donaldson. “Equally worthwhile was making the acquaintance of younger members of the Queen’s law community.”

Angela Cao, Law’13, a litigation lawyer with Queenstone Law Corporation, agrees. “I really enjoyed seeing the new grads coming out to alumni events. There were many from Law’18 in attendance.
 
“I look forward to future Queen's Law alumni events,” she adds, “and hope that there will be more of these in Vancouver.” 
    
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