; Suzana Popovic-Montag has
been appointed Hull & Hull LLP’s
managing partner. She practises
in the areas of: estates, trusts,
capacity and fiduciary litigation.
Recently, she was the chair of the
trusts and estates section execu-
tive of the Ontario Bar Association.
; Miller Thomson LLP has added
nine lawyers to its partnership
ranks. New partners from the
Toronto office include: Adrienne
Campbell, Kate Lazier, Jennifer
Hewitt, Elisabeth Symons, Anna-
Marie Musson, Patrick Greco
and Elizabeth Hutchison. Timothy
McGurrin from the Kitchener-Wat-
erloo, Ont. office was admitted to
the partnership. Andy Chan from
the Toronto and Markham, Ont.
offices was also appointed partner
at Miller Thomson.
Growing up in Edmonton,
Elisabeth Eid dreamed of becom-
ing a foreign news correspondent.
In high school, she got a taste
of the media while working as a
part-time receptionist at a radio
station, where she also occasionally voiced commercials.
But that goal shifted during
her university years in the 1980s
studying political science and
French at the University of Alberta
(she later obtained a Bachelor of
Arts with distinction in 1986) and
law at McGill in Montreal, when
Eid (pronounced id) got a taste of
international work.
As a volunteer with Canadian
Crossroads International, she
went on overseas assignments to
Sri Lanka and Senegal.
“Those two experiences were
eye-opening for me, especially as a
young woman from Alberta, to see
different cultures in developing
countries where people struggle
just to get their basic necessities,”
says 45-year-old Eid. “I realized
how incredibly advantaged we are
in Canada.”
By then, she had also decided
to pursue a career as a lawyer.
While in law school, Eid had a
summer job as a legal counsellor
for the United Church of Canada’s
Committee to Aid Refugees in
Montreal where she helped refu-
gee claimants obtain food, cloth-
ing, shelter and legal services.
She considered practising
immigration law, but saw how little lawyers in the area made on
legal aid cases. To raise a family
(she has two children, Matthew,
17, and Isabelle, 13), Eid sought
something more stable, but still
with a people focus. So after articling with Stikeman Elliott LLP in
Montreal and clerking for now
former Federal Court of Appeal
Justice Alice Desjardins, Eid
found her place as a lawyer with
the federal government.
While she may not be a jour-
nalist reporting on human rights
violations around the world, she
has spent the better part of her
Name:
Elisabeth Eid
Law School:
McGill University, LL.B. in
common law and civil law,
graduated 1990
Called to the Quebec Bar:
1991
Called to the Ontario Bar:
1995
Career highlights:
Elisabeth Eid
1992–1996 Legal
counsel, Department of Canadian
Heritage, Ottawa
1995–1996 Part-time
federal Crown prosecutor
for Ottawa-Hull, Department
of Justice
LAW FIRM NEWS
; Catherine Milne and Rachel
Turnpenney have formed Turn-
penney Milne LLP. The partnership
is a boutique law firm representing
both employers and employees
throughout Ontario in workplace
law. The downtown Toronto firm
specializes in employment litiga-
tion, human rights advocacy, con-
tract drafting and review, human
resources consulting and work-
place investigations and training.
AWARDS
; Marc-Andre Landry, 32, an
associate in Blake Cassels &
Graydon LLP’s Montreal office,
has become the youngest
recipient of the Jules-Deschenes
prize in the award’s history and
one of the few who is not a judge.
The award, bestowed by the
Quebec division of the Canadian
Bar Association, recognizes exceptional commitment and continuous
involvement in the organization.
The award acknowledges Landry’s
service as an integral member of
the Citizenship and Charters Program, which helps secondary students make connections between
the Charter and their rights and
obligations as Canadian citizens.
15-year career in the public service
ensuring that human rights are
upheld from a Canadian perspective. And, she’s gotten to travel
abroad too.
As head of the Justice Depart-
ment’s human rights law section,
Eid has represented Canada
before United Nations’ human
rights committees on the elimin-
ation of discrimination against
women in New York City and on
ending racial discrimination in
Geneva. Through the Foreign
Affairs Department, she went to
Indonesia and
China to help train
government offi-
cials in those coun-
tries on harmoniz-
ing their domestic
human rights laws
with their UN
human rights treaty
obligations.
“One of the main roles of our
group at Justice Canada is to
ensure that we not only consider
Canadian Charter law, but also
international law, since Canadian courts are increasingly
looking to UN human rights
treaties to interpret the Canadian Charter of Rights and
Freedoms,” explains Eid.
Before she became DG, she
was already somewhat of an
expert on international human
rights law. In 2001, Eid packed up
her two young kids and husband,
Stuart Holm (a stay-at-home dad
at the time) and headed to New
Zealand, where she spent seven
months as a visiting lecturer at the
University of Auckland.
1996–2001 Legal
counsel, human rights law
section, Justice Canada
2001– 2003 Assistant
director and senior general
counsel, human rights law
section, Justice Canada
2003 Promoted to
director general
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the Westminster-system governments of Canada, Australia, New
Zealand and the U.K. in which
participants spent a week each in
Sunningdale, England, Sydney,
Australia and Ottawa meeting
with “leading-edge speakers and
subject matter experts,” along with
senior bureaucrats. The goal was
to “challenge and shape a new
generation of public service leaders with the skill and confidence to
tackle complex, global, modern
problems in new ways,” according
to Justice Canada’s newsletter.
In nominating her for the
“learning think tank,” Carolyn
Kobernick, assistant deputy minister of the public law sector at
Justice Canada, called Eid “an
exceptionally gifted and committed public servant and tremendous legal mind.” ;
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