CGCA 2025 - Litigation Management Award Nomination Form

Litigation Management Award 2025

Nomination Form
NOMINATION CLOSING DATE: TUESDAY, APRIL 8TH, 2025,
AT 12 PM – EASTERN TIME
INSTRUCTIONS:

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ELIGIBILITY: All In-House Counsel regardless of year of call or position.

Litigation Management is not only about managing a court process but also managing the entire legal team-including outside counsel. It's not the size of a lawsuit that defines exceptional accomplishment in this category but rather, its complexity. In today’s commercial lawsuits counsel face a wide range of issues including the question of when to settle.

Judges will be looking for effective quarterbacking of overall legal strategy as well as evidence of hands on management of external advisers; how decisions made in legal strategy underpinned the company’s brand; and where appropriate, how the nominee managed multi-jurisdictional issues.

The information should include a brief profile of the businesses involved; the issue; the jurisdictions; list of the external law firms used; and the outcome of the litigation.

Previous Litigation Management Award Recipients:

2024 - Chanelle Charron-Watson, Bombardier Inc.
2023 - Chantal Desbiens, Merck Canada
2022 - Rebecca Burrows, KPMG LLP
2021 - Kerry O’Reilly Wilks, TransAlta Corporation
2019 - Yasmin Visram, Industrial Alliance Insurance & Financial Services Inc.
2018 - Tracy Wynne, Canadian Pacific Railway
2017 - Pascale Elharrar, BMO Financial Group
2016 - Betty DelBianco, Celestica Inc.
2015 - Adrian Lang, Bank of Montreal
2014 - Peter Brady, Vale Canada Ltd.
2013 - Andrea Cotroneo, MasterCard and Amy Gaskin, VISA Canada Corp.
2012 - Caroline Jacques, Abbott Laboratories, Limited
2011 - Margaret Ross, Canadian Medical Protective Association
2010 - Ildiko Mehes, Teva Canada Limited
2009 - Karima Bawa, Research in Motion Ltd.
2008 - Peter Sahagian, KPMG LLP
2007 - Jacqueline Sheppard, Talisman Energy Inc.

Previous Litigation Management & Corporate Restructuring Award Recipients:

2006 - Patricia Olah, BCE Inc. & Bell Canada
2005 - Donald R. McCarty, Imperial Tobacco.

Please address the following areas in your nomination:

- Description of nominee’s role (400 words)
- Description of nominee’s company/division (300 words)
- Nominee’s accomplishments/transactions (500 words)
- Awards/Recognition (300 words)
- Description of litigation and what made it unique or challenging (300 words)
- External law firms used (300 words)
- Jurisdictions involved (300 words)
- Litigation outcome (300 words)
- Quotes & References (400 words)

Nominator
Name*

First NameLast Name
Title*
Corporation*
Email*
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Phone Number*
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Relationship to nominee*
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Additional Nominator (1)
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Nominee
Name*

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Corporation*
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Year called to the Bar
Province*

DESCRIPTION OF NOMINEE’S ROLE:*

0/400
DESCRIPTION OF NOMINEE’S COMPANY/DIVISION:*

0/300
NOMINEE’S ACCOMPLISHMENTS/TRANSACTIONS:*

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AWARDS/RECOGNITION:*

0/300
DESCRIPTION OF LITIGATION AND WHAT MADE IT UNIQUE OR CHALLENGING:*

0/400
EXTERNAL LAW FIRMS USED:*

0/300
JURISDICTIONS INVOLVED:*

0/300
LITIGATION OUTCOME:*

0/300
QUOTES & REFERENCES

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Litigation Management Award 2025

Nominator

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