; In Kingston, Ont., Lili Kramil-
Marcus has joined Cunningham
Swan as partner. Kramil-
Marcus has been representing
children as a panel member of
the Personal Rights Panel of the
Office of the Children’s Lawyer
for over 20 years. She is
involved in many community
activities, including: being a
member of the Kingston Gen-
eral Hospital Auxiliary, as well
as sitting on the board of the
Collaborative Family Law Asso-
ciation, the Kingston Jewish
Council and the Kingston Gen-
eral Hospital Foundation.
; In Ottawa, Will Amos was
named the new director of the
uOttawa-Ecojustice Environ-
mental Law Clinic. Amos
takes over from departing dir-
ector, Linda McCaffrey. The
clinic was created in 2007 as
a joint partnership between
the University of Ottawa
and Ecojustice.
GEOFF KIRBYSON
Dick Pound has been a lawyer
for more than 40 years but he
knows nothing he does in a courtroom will overshadow his moonlighting activities.
The Montreal-based partner at
Stikeman Elliott LLP has built up
a solid body of work since being
called to the Quebec Bar in 1968,
but it’s his 30-year second career
with the International Olympic
Committee, highlighted by his
never-ending quest to rid the
sporting world of drug cheats,
that created his global profile.
“A lot of people don’t realize
I’m a lawyer and think all this
(Olympic and doping) stuff is
how I earn my living,” the 68-year-
old says with a laugh.
The former vice-president of
the International Olympic Committee (IOC), and one-time candidate for its presidency, has garnered international headlines for
his criticism of high-profile athletes across the sporting spectrum
over the years, including legendary cyclist Lance Armstrong.
Pound acknowledges there
was no Ben Johnson-esque scandal at the recent Vancouver Olympics, but that doesn’t mean the
anti-doping battle is even close to
being won.
“A number of athletes were
caught before the Games began
and were dealt with, so they
didn’t show up. A lot of the others
knew Canada has an absolutely
first-class anti-doping laboratory.
They knew if they came with this
stuff in them, they would get
caught or there may be some stuff
that they know about that we
don’t know about yet. That’s why
we keep samples for eight years.
We can go back and reanalyze
them,” he says.
Pound’s efforts to rid sports of
performance-enhancing drugs
has landed him on Time
magazine’s list of the 100 most influential people in the world.
He says his legal education and
training, combined with having a
CA, prepared him well for his
LAWYER OF THE WEEK
Name:
Dick Pound
Law school:
McGill University
Called to the Bar:
Quebec (1968)
and Ontario (1980)
Career highlights:
1960 Joined the Canadian Olympic team as a
swimmer for the Rome Games
1962 Won the 100-meter freestyle gold medal
at the Commonwealth Games
1977 Became president of the Canadian Olympic
Committee
1978 Joined the International Olympic Committee
1999 Founding chair of the World Anti-Doping
Agency
APPOINTMENTS
; University of British Columbia
Law Dean Mary Anne Bobinski
has been selected as the next
President of the Council of Can-
adian Law Deans (CCLD) for a
one-year term as of July 2010.
The CCLD is an independent and
unincorporated not-for-profit
association bringing together
the heads of the various law
schools and departments
across Canada.
; Three Benchers have been
appointed to the Law Society
of British Columbia. The new
Benchers are: Satwinder
Bains, the director at the Uni-
versity of the Fraser Valley’s
Centre for Indo-Canadian
Studies and an instructor in the
India Canada Studies Program;
Ben Meisner a journalist,
writer and radio host and;
Claude Richmond a former
MLA for the Kamloops, B.C.
and former speaker of the
Legislative Assembly. The out-
going Benchers are: Patrick
Kelly, Maelor Vallance and
Barbara Levesque.
many duties with the IOC.
“It meant that all of the commercial stuff, marketing and television, was relatively easy. The
legal training teaches you to analyze problems, marshall the facts
and put together a plan of action.
It’s almost the same as running a
law case,” he says.
Pound says lawyers deal with
hundreds of prob-
lems and most of
them have been
good experience for
dealing with tele-
vision negotiations
with various coun-
tries and global
sponsors.
“(Legal training)
helps you understand what their
problems are and structure our
deals so they meet our objectives
and those of the sponsors and
broadcasters,” he says.
In addition to being a member
of the IOC, Pound sits on a num-
ber of its committees and he’s the
IOC appointee to the World Anti-
Doping Agency (WADA). He says
his current IOC
duties take up
less time than
they did eight
years ago when
he ran WADA on a daily basis but
they’re still “significant.” He says
even though he’s in danger of
becoming a “senior” lawyer at
Stikeman, he has no trouble fill-
ing up his days.
DARRYL DYCK / THE CANADIAN PRESS
Dick Pound carrying the Olympic flame in B.C. in February.
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the answer to a problem is and be
able to do something for your clients and make them better off
than they were before they came
to see you,” he says.
Pound comes by his passion
for sports honestly. Fifty years ago
this summer, he was in Rome as a
member of Canada’s Olympic
swim team. He came sixth in the
100-metre freestyle and he swam
on the relay team, which narrowly
missed a medal, finishing fourth.
Pound says his athletic career
served as a springboard to his
future IOC involvement.
“I said to myself, ‘a lot of people
have helped me as an amateur
athlete and if you’ve drunk from
the well you have an obligation to
put back as much as you took out.’
I started out volunteering in sport
and worked my way up to the IOC
and president of the Canadian
Olympic Committee,” he says.
Pound says he’s not worried that
he’s seen as a cage-rattler. He says
honest athletes, their parents and
sports fans think his work is great.
“The only people who don’t
like it are the bad guys. They
never figured out that by complaining about it that they identified themselves as bad guys,”
he says. ;
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