2025 Judges
2025 Judges
Nominators or nominees should not contact judges directly about their submissions.
Gassim Bangoura
Senior Director, Legal Affairs and Assistant Corporate Secretary, Birks Group Inc.
and Past President, CABL- Quebec
Sarbjit Basra
Managing Partner
Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP
Josianne Beaudry
Partner – Leader, Business Law Group
Lavery
Stephen Beney
Principal
Bereskin & Parr LLP
Jennifer Biernaskie
Partner
McLennan Ross LLP
Bruce Chapple
CEO & Managing Partner
McMillan LLP
Christine Chen
General Counsel
University Pension Plan Ontario
John Ciardullo
Managing Partner, Toronto Office
Stikeman Elliott LLP
Matthew W. Cockburn
Managing Partner
Torys LLP
Jeffrey Cohen
Managing Partner
Torkin Manes LLP
George Cooper, KC
Chief Executive Officer and Partner
Cox & Palmer
Martin K. Denyes
Firm Managing Partner
Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP
David Di Paolo
National Managing Partner and Chief Executive Officer (effective July 1, 2025)
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP (BLG)
Paul Fruitman
Partner
Lax O’Sullivan Lisus Gottlieb LLP
Tim Haney
Canada Chief Executive Officer
Dentons Canada LLP
Nick Henn
Chief Legal Officer, Loblaw Companies Limited
and Member Board of Directors- Pro Bono Ontario
Collin K. Hirschfeld, KC
Partner and Chair- Executive Committee
McKercher LLP
Michael Innes
National Chair, Corporate Group
Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
Monique Jilesen
Managing Partner
Lenczner Slaght
Sunil Kapur
Chief Executive Officer, Partner Toronto
McCarthy Tétrault LLP
Kevin J. Kiley, KC
Managing Partner
McInnes Cooper
Cynthia Kuehl
Partner, Chair of Firm
Lerners LLP
Dale H. Lastman, C.M, O.Ont.
Chair
Goodmans LLP
Jennifer Lau
Senior Counsel, M&A
TELUS
Steve McKersie
Chief Executive Officer
Gowling WLG (Canada) LLP
John Mercury
Executive Chair and Chair of the Board
Bennett Jones LLP
James Murdoch
Managing Partner
THORSTEINSSONS LLP
Jonathan Odumeru
Senior Counsel
TD Bank Group
Nora Osbaldeston
Ontario Regional Managing Partner
Miller Thomson LLP
Dr. Charles Osuji
CEO and Managing Partner
Osuji Smith Lawyers
Sophie Perreault
Chair of the Board of Directors
Langlois Lawyers, LLP
Dominique Perron
Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary
Lion Electric
Clifford G. Proudfoot, KC
Managing Partner
Lawson Lundell LLP
Alicia K. Quesnel
Managing Partner
Burnet, Duckworth & Palmer, LLP
Bruce Reynolds
Co-Managing Partner, Mediator and Arbitrator
Singleton Urquhart Reynolds Vogel LLP
Allan Ritchie
Partner & Chair
Loopstra Nixon LLP
Catherine Ross
Chief HR Officer and General Counsel
The Aldo Group Inc.
Bo Rothstein
Managing Partner
Farris LLP
Bryson A. Stokes
Firm Managing Partner
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
Kristin Taylor
Managing Partner
Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP
Jennifer Teskey
Managing Partner – Canada
Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP
