IN HOUSE COUNSEL
Publisher
Anand Ablack, LL.B.
Managing Editor
Tim Wilbur, J.D.
Business Editor
Melissa Dunne
Contributing Editor
Natalie Fraser, LL.B.
Art Director
Tammy Leung
Copy Editor
Cynthia Notarmarco
Breaking up
is hard to do
Contributors
Brigitte Bouvier, Greg Burchell,
Debra Eby, David Grandy,
Christopher Guly, Yuti Hu,
Jill Kitchener, Luis Millan,
Paul Paton, TL Price, Randy Romano,
Edward Schnurr, Eric Swetsky
Money is one of the big- gest issues couples deal with and the Canadian Bar Association (CBA)
and Canadian Corporate Counsel Association (CCCA) are no different.
In our cover story “It’s War” on page
24, freelance reporter Christopher Guly
talked to the key players in the ugly fight
between the CBA and CCCA that culminated in breakups, harsh words and hurt
feelings earlier this year. Guly got all the
key players to talk. Everyone from Cheryl
Foy, a former CCCA president, who was
unceremoniously ousted from the CCCA
to current CBA President Rod Snow
weigh in on what happened and where
to go from here.
At the heart of the fractious relationship was a drawn-out argument over
how much funding the CCCA, which
is a conference of the CBA with about
10,000 members, should get from the
CBA. As with many protracted battles,
things got ugly. After talks broke down
the CCCA board was summarily dismissed. Letters and interviews expressing outrage began to fly in early 2011
— it all started to look a bit like the
epic 80s divorce movie War of the Roses.
then. A new interim board has been
named and former CCCA members are
doing what many a heart-broken girl
has done before —flirting with the rival to make the ex jealous.
In this case the rival is the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC), an
organization with 26,000 members
worldwide. And the ACC is capitalizing
off the current fractious feelings. Guly
talked to members of the ACC for the
cover story and it’s clear they see this
tiff as an opportunity not to be wasted.
Since the feud between the CBA and
CCCA went public the ACC has upped
their presence in Canada, launching
events in an attempt to lure in-house
counsel away from the CCCA.
Breaking up is hard to do and doing
it in public is even harder. Now that
the CCCA is on the road to renewal
so are some former CCCA members.
Now the only question is: which
organization will you support? The
made-in-Canada CCCA or the international behemoth ACC? The choice
is yours.
Melissa Dunne
Legal business editor
melissa.dunne@lexisnexis.ca
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Cover
Cheryl Foy photo by Brigette Bouvier
Rod Snow photo by Mike Thomas
Illustration by Tammy Leung
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