Alumni News

2021

• After a long and storied career, Professor John Currie, LLB ’90, retired from the University on June 30, 2021

  Posted on Friday, September 24, 2021

  Thank you John.  Congratulations and Good luck in your retirement!

• Harley Finkelstein, JD & MBA ’09, named one of Fortune’s 2021 Top 40 Under 40

  Posted on Wednesday, September 22, 2021

  On September 8, 2021, U.S.-based Fortune magazine announced its list of Top 40 Under 40.

• Thomas Ullyet, LLB ’85, is the 2021 winner of the Louis Saint-Laurent Award of Excellence

  Posted on Tuesday, September 21, 2021

  Congratulations to University of Ottawa Common Law alumnus Thomas E. Ullyett, LLB ’85, who has received the 2021 Canadian Bar Association (CBA)’s Louis Saint-Laurent Award of Excellence! This is the CBA’s highest award, presented in recognition of a lifetime of outstanding service and professional achievement for the benefit of the legal profession. This honour acknowledges the breadth and scope of Ulyett’s achievements and contributions.

• Alex Ilchenko, LLB ’91, Appointed Associate Judge of Superior Court of Justice

  Posted on Tuesday, September 21, 2021

  The Honourable Doug Downey, Attorney General of Ontario, announced the appointment of Alex Ilchenko, LLB ’91, to the Superior Court of Justice, Toronto Region, effective August 12, 2021. He was called to the Ontario Bar in 1993.

   

• Three students win the Harley Finkelstein Entrepreneurship Challenge!

  Posted on Tuesday, September 21, 2021

  A team of three Common Law JD candidates for 2022, Ayushi Dave, Ritesh Kotak, and Ryan Mosoff, has won the Harley Finkelstein Entrepreneurship Challenge! The competition, endowed by Harley Finkelstein, joint J.D. & MBA, ‘09 and President of Shopify, was designed to develop the entrepreneurial mindset that is critical to leadership, helping students to become better leaders, lawyers, and entrepreneurs.

• Caryma Sa’d, JD ’15: Merging her Passions for Law and Art

  Posted on Wednesday, September 15, 2021

  Caryma Sa’d, JD ‘15, is a Toronto-based lawyer and entrepreneur whose practice focuses primarily on housing, cannabis, and criminal law. She is also very outspoken about what matters to her, such as issues relating to politics, access to justice, poverty, racism, and the legal profession.

• Karen Perron, LLB ’03, became OBA’s president in September 2021

  Posted on Tuesday, September 14, 2021

  For the first time in the history of the Ontario Bar Association (OBA), a woman president, Charlene D. Theodore, passed the baton to another woman. The responsibility was given to Karen Perron, LLB ’03, this September.

• Interview with Sarah Alasaly, JD '17, on starting her independent family law firm

  Posted on Thursday, August 19, 2021

  Sarah Alasaly, was born in Ottawa and grew up in Vancouver, B.C. After starting her career in the health sector as a registered nurse, she chose to come back to Ottawa to do her JD. She obtained her degree in 2017 and was called to the Ontario Bar in 2017. She was subsequently called to the B.C. Bar in 2018. 

  We recently had the opportunity to interview this female entrepreneur to learn about what motivated her to start an independent family law firm, Alasaly Law Group, during a pandemic and quickly grow it to a four-person team in Victoria, BC.

• Four New Professors Joining Common Law Section

  Posted on Wednesday, June 30, 2021

  We are thrilled to announce the appointment of Professor Signa Daum Shanks as an Associate Professor on July 1, 2021. Julie Ada, Hassan Ahmad and Brandon D. Stewart will also join our Faculty, as Replacement Professors for two-year terms.  

• The personal 36-year journey of Angel Larkman, 2L, to get Indian status

  Posted on Tuesday, June 15, 2021

  Angel Larkman, 2L, and her editor scrambled to get the story out and published in the Huffington Post Canada the day before it was closed. They were able to share Larkman’s personal story titled “It Took The Government 36 Years To Tell Me What I Already Knew: I Am A Status Indian”.