The Lawyers Weekly - Inside Councel, Summer 2011

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legal counsel in the labour and employment
law group at Aveos Fleet Performance Inc.,

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Today, the ACC has over 26,000 members in 75 countries representing over 10,000 organizations.

In canada, the ACC has more than 800 in-house lawyers representing about 450 corporations as members.

The ACC stresses that its chapters are independent, overseeing local events, budgets and fundraising, and retain all of the proceeds to use on Canadian programming and networking events.

dian-centric,” whereas the ACC, an international organization serves members more locally via chapters, while connecting them to a global network of in-house colleagues. On the rivalry Hoyles says: “We are happy to compete with the ACC in what we can offer to Canadian lawyers as a Canadian organization.”

RENEWAL

forMer ccca board members are welcome to serve on the new board. Three did: Mary Ellen Greenough, senior solicitor with Emera Inc. in Halifax; Antoinette Bozac vice-president of human resources and legal affairs, and general counsel for Canada Lands Company CLC Ltd. in Toronto; and Fred Headon of Air Canada in Dorval, Que. Headon, who serves as senior counsel in the labour and employment law group at Air Canada, will become the first in-house lawyer to serve as CBA president in August 2013 in light of his election in April as the association’s national second vice-president.

He explains that the CBA-CCCA negotiations had “been a strain on everybody on both sides of the table and had reached a point where there was an impasse,” and a speedy resolution was required.

Having no interest in joining the ACC, Headon admits that
he was “disappointed” with the CBA-CCCA squabble because
the former CCCA board had a number of “very dedicated peo-
ple” who invested much time and energy in the negotiations
and mediation, and did so “for all the right reasons.”
“The sad irony is that we were all trying to do what was best
for serving the in-house Bar in Canada,” says Headon, who
prior to joining Air Canada in 2006, spent seven years as a
partner with McCarthy Tétrault LLP in Montreal. However,
he insists that the CCCA is in the “best position” to address
in-house counsel issues of reducing costs and “getting better
value for money.”
Headon says that Geoffrey Creighton, senior vice-presi-
dent, general counsel and secretary, and chief compliance
officer for IGM Financial Inc., who also serves as vice-chair
of the CCCA’s interim executive committee, has been trav-
elling across the country to reach out to the “disaffected or
not” as the organization prepares to welcome a new board in
August. Headon and committee colleague, Gordon Currie
(executive vice-president and chief legal officer of George
Weston Ltd. in Toronto) have been working the phones with
the same goal.