n;Helen Park has joined Ackah
Business Immigration Law and will
be leading the newly opened Vancouver location of the firm. Park
practices immigration law with a
focus on business immigration for
corporate clients and businesses
in North America and worldwide.
n;Davis LLP has appointed
David Reid as the head of the
firm’s global mining group. Reid
is a senior partner at the firm and
practices in the areas of securities law, corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions (M&A),
mining law and related corporate
and commercial transactions. He
was previously president of the
national chapter of the mining
law section of the Canadian Bar
Association (CBA), and has
served on the boards of various
companies operating in the
mining development sector.
The line between being an
actor on the stage and being a lawyer in a courtroom can be blurry.
Success in both acting and lawyering, as Dermot Nolan argues,
boils down to the same two things:
preparation and performance.
“…The shuffling of paper
abates. The chatter fades. Hearts
quicken and the audience
inhales. For this breathless
moment too, there is only
silence…mystery…anticipation.
It’s Showtime.” From this quote
it may be difficult to determine
whether Nolan is referring to the
stage or the courtroom as he dis-cusses the nexus between law
and theatre at the Law Society of
Upper Canada’s (LSUC) sixth
annual colloquium on the legal
profession held in 2006; but
that is the point he tries to make
as he highlights the great symbiosis between the two.
Nolan has had a successful
law practice for 36 years and is
actively involved within the legal
community, but for a time he
flirted with being a professional
actor, even landing work for the
renowned Stratford Shakespeare
Festival held annually in Stratford, Ont., before entering law
school. One may think that his
acting career ended when his
legal career began, but Nolan is
one of the few who got to have
his cake and eat it too, as he still
stokes his acting passion despite
a busy practice.
At just 19 he was the youngest
member of the Stratford Shakespeare Festival’s company. He
had the opportunity to share the
stage with acting luminaries
such as Christopher Plummer
and Alan Bates.
Despite his love for acting,
when it was time to make a
career decision, he chose the
courtroom over the stage. “I
decided that although I love it, it
isn’t for me — it’s very precarious
and you have to be a nomad and
go wherever opportunities take
you, and I like to be in one place,”
ANNOUNCEMENTS
AWARDS
n;The Barreau du Québec has
awarded Raphaël Schachter the
title of Avocat émérite (Ad.E.).
The honour was created in 2007
to recognize sustained and outstanding contributions made by a
select group of lawyers to the
advancement of the profession,
the work of the Barreau or their
social or professional environment.
Schachter is a partner at Lavery
LLP, and practices exclusively in
the areas of criminal law, penal
law and the penal aspects of competition law.
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THE PROFILE
Name:
Dermot Nolan
Law school:
University of Ottawa
Called to the Bar:
1975
Career highlights:
1975 Established Nolan
Offices in Hamilton
2000 Received the Emilius
Irving award, the highest honour
of the Hamilton Law Association
2001 Inducted into McMaster
University’s gallery of
distinguished graduates
Backstage at the 2011 Hamilton Lawyers’ Show A Man for All Seasons.
Standing, left to right: Justice Ray Harris, Dermot Nolan, Kim Smith, and
Jeff Manishen. Seated: Justice Randy Mazza.
n;The chief executive officer of
the Law Society of Upper Canada
(LSUC), Malcolm Heins, is
retiring. Heins has led the LSUC as
CEO for the past 10 years and was
previously the CEO of the society’s
insurance subsidiary Lawyers’ Professional Indemnity Co. (LawPRO)
for 7 years. Heins’ retirement is
effective January 1, 2012. The
LSUC has retained the services of
executive search consultant
Amrop Knightsbridge to assist in
the recruitment of a new CEO.
Nolan said in a recent interview
with The Lawyers Weekly.
While he may have chosen
law, his heart remained with the
stage and was caught in what he
refers to as a “love triangle.” As it
turned out however, the love triangle led to “a marriage that
allows both a wife and a mistress,” law being his wife and
acting his mistress, according to
Nolan. “That’s because the courtroom is in fact a stage. And
because of an invention that
became known in the industry as
The Lawyers’ Show,” he said.
The concept of the shows ori-
ginated in 1983, “the brainchild
of Jeff Manishen,” a fellow Ham-
ilton lawyer and long-time friend
of Nolan’s. Manishen saw the
classic movie Twelve Angry Men
in 1974 during law school, which
sparked the idea of organizing a
play. It wasn’t until 1983 that the
idea actually materialized as he
discussed the idea of performing
the play with a cast made up
entirely of lawyers, with lawyer
and friend Randy Mazza who
introduced him to Nolan. The
show held at Hamilton House
turned out to be a success. The
concept caught on and became a
significant fundraising vehicle
for theatre and other causes
across the country. Proceeds
from the shows have been used
to establish a permanent endow-
ment fund The Lawyer’s Legacy
for Children in support of local
children, and has raised a sig-
nificant amount over the years.
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