n;In Vancouver, Kareen Zimmer
has joined Fasken Martineau
DuMoulin LLP’s securities and
mergers & acquisitions (M&A)
practice group as a partner. She
was previously with McCarthy
Tétrault LLP. Zimmer is a cor-
porate lawyer with a practice
focused on mergers and acquisi-
tions, financings, and financial
institution regulation.
n;In Toronto, Natalie Fraser,
previously the Focus editor, has
been promoted to the position
of managing editor at The Law-
yers Weekly. Tim Wilbur, the
former managing editor of the
paper, has left to work at
another legal publication.
LAWYER OF THE WEEK
Name:
Jack Innes
Law school:
Dalhousie University Law
School (now called the Schulich
School of Law)
Called to the Bar:
1969
Career highlights:
1974 Established his own
firm in Halifax
2000 Given the Canadian Bar
Association’s (CBA) Louis St.
Laurent Award of Excellence
AWARDS
2011 Honoured with the
CBA’s Doug Miller Award
n;The Law Society of Upper
Canada (LSUC) has honoured
three people with the degree of
Doctor of Laws (LLD) for outstanding achievements in service
and benefits to the legal profession, the rule of law or the cause
of justice. The 2011 recipients
are: Marian Boyd, a former
Ontario Attorney General; Justice
Robert Sharpe, a judge for the
Court of Appeal Ontario; and
John McCamus, the current
chair of Legal Aid Ontario’s board
of directors.
Jack Innes
DONALEE MOULTON
When Jack Innes gets involved,
he gets involved for the long run.
That perseverance — and ongoing
commitment to giving back—
recently earned Innes, a partner
with McInnes Cooper in Halifax,
the Canadian Bar Association’s
(CBA) 2011 Doug Miller Award,
which honours a lawyer who demonstrates outstanding dedication
and team spirit.
“The selection of Jack as winner was a clear and simple choice.
His leadership, his people skills
and his infectious sense of humour
made him a natural choice,” said
CBA President Rod Snow.
Contributing to the community, whether it’s a local neighbourhood or a national barristers’ association, is part of Innes’s
DNA. “I come from a family of
volunteers,” he told The Lawyers
Weekly. “My parents were always
involved. My grandfather was a
professional Lion.”
Innes’s involvement with the
CBA began with a phone call five
years into his law career. An
LAW SCHOOL NEWS
n;The University of Windsor has
appointed Camille Cameron as
the new dean of the faculty of law,
as of January 2012. Cameron formerly served as associate dean at
Australia’s Melbourne University,
and is currently professor of law
and director of its civil justice
research group. Cameron’s
research interests include access
to justice, the administration of
civil justice and court reform in
transitional legal systems. She has
worked as a consultant for the
World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, and the International
Human Rights Law Group on projects related to legal and judicial
training and reform.
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older colleague called to see if
the Bedford, N.S., native would
like to contribute some energy
and ideas to the CBA, which was
looking to bring younger lawyers
into the fold. “I just got sucked
in at that point,” Innes said with
a laugh.
That was 42 years ago. In the
time since his phone rang, the
Dalhousie University Law School,
now called the Dalhousie University Schulich School of Law,
graduate has served as president
of CBA-Nova Scotia, president of
the Canadian Bar Insurance Association, national treasurer of the
CBA, and president of the Legal
Professional Assistance Conference. He is currently serving as
chair of the CBA’s Membership
Fee Review Working Group.
Innes, who also received the
Nova Scotia Distinguished Service
Award in 1999 and the CBA’s
Louis St. Laurent Award of Excel-
lence in 2000 for his exceptional
service to the goals of the organ-
ization, came to his commitment
to the legal profession later in life.
“I wanted to be a pilot. I had a
pilot’s license,” he said. Innes also
had a wife and a father who felt
law was the more stable career
and talked him into applying for
law school.
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