The Lawyers Weekly - May 14, 2010

; Michael Eizenga has joined
Bennett Jones LLP as a partner in
the litigation department in the
Toronto office. Eizenga, a class
action lawyer, is also a fellow of
the American College of Trial Law-
yers. From 2003-2006, Eizenga
was the president of the Liberal
Party of Canada. From 1995-1997
he was the president of the Liberal
Party of Ontario. He is currently on
the Board of the Federal Liberal
Agency of Canada.
; Adrienne Woodyard and
David Nathanson have moved
their tax practices from Ler-
ners LLP to the Toronto office of
Davis LLP, accompanied by
their corporate clerk, Cathy
Butti, with whom they have
worked for many years. In an
e-mail before the move in early
May Woodyward said: “We
have valued our time at Ler-
ners and enjoy excellent rela-
tionships with our col-
leagues here, but believe that a
move to Davis LLP will allow us
to serve our clients even more
effectively in the context of
a leading full-service law firm
with offices throughout Canada
(including Vancouver, Calgary,
Edmonton, Toronto and Mont-
real), and in Japan.”
; Dawn Devoe, former corporate
counsel of Suncor Energy Products
Inc. has joined World Vision
Canada as general counsel.

MICHAEL RAPPAPORT

William Tetley followed the call of the sea at an early age, but it was serendipity that launched his career as one of the most renowned marine law academics, arbitrators and authors in the world— notable for writing Marine Cargo Claims, which is recognized as the “bible” of international Maritime carriage of goods law.

At age 16, in 1944, Tetley joined the Royal Canadian Navy as a sea scout. He continued serving with the naval reserves while an economics student at McGill University and a law student at Université Laval, rising to lieutenant.

In 1952, when Tetley joined Walker Martineau Chauvin Walker & Allison (today Fasken Martineau) following his call to the Bar, he planned to become a tax lawyer and was even studying accounting part-time. At the time Walker Martineau had only seven lawyers in Montreal. Today the firm boasts over 650 lawyers worldwide.

During Tetley’s second week, a partner at Walker Martineau assigned him a cargo insurance claim from a New York-based marine insurance company. Tetley drafted an opinion on the merits of the claim, which the claims manager criticized for being “too long.” Nevertheless, the claims manager sent Tetley a second claim. Walker Martineau wouldn’t foot the bill for Tetley to travel to New York to meet with the claims manager, so Tetley decided to hitch-hike. While in New York, not only did Tetley meet with the claims manager, but he also met with a few other claims managers from other marine insurance companies, who sent him home with several marine cargo claims. Returning to Montreal, Tetley switched from studying accounting at night to taking admiralty law courses. A legal career was launched.

The claims “mushroomed” from there, says Tetley, a former Liberal cabinet minister in Quebec from 1970-1976 , professor of law at McGill University, counsel

LAWYER OF THE WEEK

Name: William Tetley Law school: Université Laval Called to the Bar: 1952

Career highlights:

1970–1976 Cabinet minister in Quebec responsible for tabling the province’s first Consumer Protection Act and overhauling over 50 other commercial codes and statutes

1981–1984 President of the Canadian Maritime Law Association

1995 Named a member of the Order of Canada

William Tetley

AWARDS

; Noella Milne has been awarded the YWCA Toronto Woman of Distinction Award for Mentorship. She is a senior partner at Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, where she practises in commercial real estate law. She has mentored hundreds of women students and young lawyers at her firm. Milne, a mother of three, has also lobbied for fair wages, maternity leave policies and the ability to work on a part-time basis. The Women of Distinction Awards acknowledge women who contribute to the community, particularly to the lives of women and girls.

to Langlois Kronström Desjar-dins and international maritime law arbitrator.

The number of marine cargo claims grew in tandem with the exponential growth in international shipping. During the Vietnam War the U.S.

military built the world’s first deep water cargo container port in Cam

Ranh Nay to supply American troops.

Rather than leave Indochina with empty vessels, shippers began stopping at Tokyo to pick up cheap electronic goods from Japan to sell in the U.S. Before 1967 no commercial container service linked Japan and America. From 1970 to 2000, the market for containers grew three times faster than the world economy. By 2005, more than 3,500

cargo ships plied the seas, loaded with 15 million containers.

Originally, marine claims law only covered the carriage of goods from port to port, according to In 1965, Tetley published the first edition of his opus,

Marine Cargo Claims, which he had been working on since his first cargo claim. The textbook became an international best-seller, since unlike previous books on the subject, which were essentially academic treatises it was a “how-to book,” dealing with subjects of interest to practitioners.

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Editions of Tetley’s book have been translated into Russian, Japanese, Chinese and a dozen other languages. Tetley’s text has been cited by the Supreme Court of Canada, U.S. Federal Courts and the House of Lords.

In 2008, Tetley published Marine Cargo Claims, 4th Edition—a two-volume text with 3,288 pages—to update the law to take into account the passage of the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Carriage of Goods Wholly or Partly by Sea. In 2009 Tetley was awarded the Canadian Bar Association’s Walter Owen Book Prize for his outstanding contribution to Canadian legal literature.

Today, at 83 years of age, Tet-
ley, who has been married for
over 50 years and has four chil-
dren and nine grandchildren, says
that he is “winding down.” He still
can be found in his office at
McGill University faculty of law
during the week, but he takes
“naps in the afternoon.”
Tetley now spends most of his
time tending his website, mcgill.
ca/maritimelaw, one of the world’s
largest free websites devoted to
marine cargo claims law. ;

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