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THE DYE & DURHAM AWARD FOR
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT IN THE LEGAL PROFESSION – PRIVATE PRACTICE
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This award recognizes and celebrates a leader
with a minimum of 30 years of experience who has
contributed significantly to advancing Canada's legal
profession or justice system
LEGAL PROFESSION AWARDS
EXCELLENCE AWARDEES
� Aird & Berlis LLP –The New Aird & Berlis Indigenous
Practice Group and Indigenous Education Program
� Dentons –Dentons' Reconciliation Roadmap
� Enbridge –Canadian Legal Mentorship Program
� Fasken –Empower Network
� Level Justice – Black Youth Justice Program
� Miller Thomson LLP – Strengthening Inclusive
Leadership to Strengthen our Workplace of Belonging
� PooranLaw Professional Corporation – PooranLaw:
Achieving Equity for People with Disabilities
EXCELLENCE AWARDEES
� DMZ, Toronto Metropolitan University – DMZ Counsel
� Gowling WLG – Operation Abraham
� McCarthy Tétrault LLP – McCarthy Tétrault aids
Egale Canada and Skipping Stone in protecting
transgender youths' access to care
� McInnes Cooper – Immigration Initiative
� Norton Rose Fulbright – Pro bono initiative to
support Black-led small businesses and Black
entrepreneurs in our local communities
� PooranLaw Professional Corporation – I Decide Law
Program
� Torys LLP – Protecting the Charter rights of
thalidomide survivors in Lianne Powell et al. v.
Attorney General of Canada
DIVERSITY INITIATIVE OF THE YEAR
PRO BONO INITIATIVE OF THE YEAR
EXCELLENCE AWARDEES
Academia & In-House
� Andrea Cotroneo, Loblaw Companies Limited
� Ashley Butts, BDO Canada
� Jane Murdoch, Finning International Inc.
� Kathryn (Katie) Daniels, CPP Investments
� Lara Speirs, Randstad Canada
� Oyeyinka Oyelowo, Ontario Provincial Police
Association
� Pam Hrick, Women's Legal Education and
Action Fund (LEAF)
Private Practice
� Karen Sargeant, Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP
� Melissa Cattini, MLT Aikins LLP
� Nancy Hamzo, Baker McKenzie
� Natalie Worsfold, Counter Tax Litigators LLP
� Rachel Howie, Dentons
� Sarit Batner, McCarthy Tétrault LLP
� Sharon Vogel, Singleton Urquhart Reynolds Vogel LLP
� Zeynab Ziaie Moayyed, Visa Law Group PC
FEMALE TRAILBLAZER OF THE YEAR
