Achievement
Robert J. Gemmell, LLB/MBA ’83
Mr. Robert Gemmell graduated with an LLB/MBA in 1983. Robert Gemmell is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Citigroup Global Markets Canada Inc. based in Toronto. Prior to joining Citigroup, Mr. Gemmell was Vice Chairman of Merrill Lynch Canada. He has built an outstanding career and has led some of the most significant transactions in Canadian corporate history, including the $6.5 billion sale of Le Groupe Videotron to Quebecor Inc. As a result of his position as one of the leaders in the investment banking industry in Canada, and his success and achievements in developing the crossborder financing market for Canadian companies, Mr. Gemmell was honoured as one of Canada’s “Top 40 Under 40” in 1996. He has given his time to the LLB/MBA program and was named alumni of the year by the Joint LL.B./MBA Students' Association. Subsequently the students nominated him at least three additional times only to be told that he had already received the award.
Harvey M. Haber, Q.C., LLB ’60
Mr. Haber is currently a senior partner at Goldman Sloan Nash & Haber LLP. His career spans over 42 years and has been named as one of Canada’s most frequently recommended property leasing lawyers by the Canadian Legal LEXPERT Directory. Mr. Haber graduated in 1960 and he received his Q.C. designation in 1978. Harvey was the recipient of the Law Society Medal for Outstanding Service within the Legal Profession in 2002. He also received the Award for Distinguished Service in 2000 from the Ontario Bar Association. Not only has he been the author of numerous books, he has written and continues to write numerous articles for both Canadian and American manuals, journals, and newsletters.
Harvey serves as an Executive member of the Alternative Dispute Resolution Section of the Ontario Bar Association. He has been a guest lecturer for The Law Society of Upper Canada, the Canadian and Ontario Bar Associations and the International Council of Shopping Centers. Harvey is currently President of the Sir John A. Macdonald Foundation Inc.
Gary P. Mooney, LLB ’80
Mr. Mooney graduated in 1980 and is now President and Chief Executive Officer of Fidelity National Financial and Chief Title Agent for Chicago Title Insurance Company Canada. He is also a Senior Partner in Anderson Sinclair LLP. Gary has been an innovator in the title insurance industry in Canada, pioneering a process for mortgage document processing that changed the way lending institutions completed mortgage transactions. Today, FNF Canada is one of the leading transaction management and document processing companies in Canada. Gary has often been described as a Renaissance man. He has been a Jesuit priest, an academic (with a PhD. from Cambridge University), a lawyer and now the Canadian CEO of a Fortune 276 company. He was a founding member of the Rotary Club of Credit Valley AM, the first Rotary Club in Canada to admit women and the first to have a woman president. He is also involved with several other community organizations including Peel Parents Against Drugs and Cheshire House, a home for the disabled. Mr. Mooney was named the 2004 Business Person of the Year by the Mississauga Board of Trade recognizing his leadership, corporate citizenship and innovation and for his contributions towards supporting local initiatives to the city of Mississauga. He was also a finalist for the 2003 Ernst and Young Ontario Entrepreneur of the Year award.
Recent Graduate
Catherine Beagan Flood, LLB ’97
After graduating as a Gold Medallist in 1997, Ms. Beagan Flood went on to clerk for the Right Honourable Antonio Lamer, Chief Justice of Canada. Ms. Beagan Flood received an LL.M. degree from Harvard Law School, where she studied constitutional, administrative and media law as a Frank Knox Memorial Fellow and Canada-U.S. Fulbright Scholar. She then joined Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP where she practises in the Litigation Group. Her practice specializes in litigating constitutional and administrative law cases. Ms. Beagan Flood has argued before all levels of court, including the Ontario Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court of Canada. She has been counsel on numerous constitutional and administrative law cases dealing with issues such as the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the division of powers, parliamentary privilege, judicial independence, freedom of information and human rights. She has also prepared extensive legal opinions on issues such as compliance with privacy legislation, constitutional conventions, the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and the division of powers in the Canadian Constitution. Cathy is also a member of the adjunct faculty of Osgoode Hall Law School, where she has been teaching a specialized seminar on privacy and freedom of information since 2000.
Public Sector
Ernie Eves, Q.C., LLB ’70
Mr. Eves graduated in 1970, was called to the Bar in 1972 and became a Queen’s Counsel in 1983. Mr. Eves was a Member of Provincial Parliament for nearly 24 years and served as rd Ontario’s 23 Premier from April 15, 2002 until October 23, 2003. He was first elected to the Ontario Legislature in 1981 and was subsequently re-elected seven times. He also has served in numerous legislative capacities including; Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Education & Minister of Colleges & Universities, Provincial Secretary for Resource Development, Minister of Skills Development, Opposition Whip, Opposition House Leader, Deputy Premier, Minister of Finance, Government House Leader and Leader of the Official Opposition. An active member of his community, Ernie founded the Big Brothers Association of Parry Sound, is a former President of the Kinsmen Club of Parry Sound and is a recipient of the Kinsmen Club of Canada’s Outstanding President’s Award. Mr. Eves is a Founder & Honourary Chair of the Justin Eves Foundation. Established in his son’s memory, the Foundation is a charitable non-profit organization granting scholarships and bursaries to learning-disabled and disadvantaged young people to assist them as they achieve their post-secondary education.
Service
The Honourable Madam Justice Sandra Chapnik, LLB ’76
Justice Chapnik obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Toronto in 1962, and a Secondary School Teacher’s certificate in 1963. For several years thereafter, she was a High School teacher. She then obtained an LLB from Osgoode Hall Law School in 1976. From 1982 to 1986, she practiced law in the areas of civil litigation, family and entertainment law. She also acted as a Rent Review Commissioner for the Ontario government. For four years prior to her appointment in 1991 to the now Superior Court of Justice, Sandra was a Vice-Chair of the then Worker’s Compensation Appeals Tribunal as well as a Fact Finder and Mediator for the Education Relations Commission in the Ministry of Education. Her professional position included being an executive member of the Canadian Bar Association, president of the Women’s Law Association, a Bar Admission Course instructor, and a Bencher of the Law Society of Upper Canada. She was president of the Osgoode Hall Law School Alumni Association from 2001-2004. Justice Chapnik has been the recipient of several honours and awards, including the Award of Distinction and the award for Distinguished Service from the Canadian Bar Association, the Women’s Law Association President’s Award and a Reuben Wells Leonard Scholarship from the University of Toronto. She and her husband, Dr. Jerry Chapnik, have generously endowed a student bursary at Osgoode to assist mature students who demonstrate financial need.
Stephen McClyment, LLB ’74
Stephen McClyment obtained his B.A. from the University of Toronto in 1971, and his LL.B. degree from Osgoode Hall Law School in 1974. He went on to establish his own law firm in Toronto and continued a very successful general practice both in Toronto and Markham until September 2000 when he joined the Law Society of Upper Canada as Investigation Counsel. He is now Senior Investigation Counsel at the Law Society of Upper Canada. Among his other responsibilities he initiated and leads the Mortgage Fraud Team at the Law Society. Mr. McClyment has had many years of legal experience in the practice of commercial and residential real estate, mortgage, and other secured transactions. He has wide experience as counsel in criminal and civil litigation including mortgage collection and enforcement proceedings for all types of secured transactions. Mr. McClyment is an example of the continuing strength of our relationships with our classmates. In July of 2001, his dear friend Brian Little passed away. To honour Brian’s memory, he approached the law school with the idea of raising money to create a student award in Brian’s name. With the help and generosity of Osgoode alumni, friends and family, Steve raised $50,000. The Brian Little award is given annually to an Osgoode student who has good academic standing, financial need, and is involved in the life of the law school through extra-curricular activities.
Dianne Martin Medal for Social Justice through Law Marlys A. Edwardh, LLB ’74
Marlys Edwardh is a graduate of Osgoode Hall Law School and received a Masters degree in law from Boalt Hall, University of California at Berkeley. She is a partner with Ruby & Edwardh in Toronto, Ontario. Ms. Edwardh has practiced in the fields of criminal, constitutional and administrative law. She has also served as counsel in a number of Royal Commissions, the latest being the Krever Commission regarding the blood system in Canada. In 2002, Ms. Edwardh received an honorary doctorate from the Law Society of Upper Canada and she was awarded the G. Arthur Martin Criminal Justice Award by the Criminal Lawyers’ Association. In 2004, the Women’s Law Association bestowed on Marlys Edwardh the President’s Award. Ms. Edwardh also received the Award of Distinction from the Toronto Lawyers’ Association in 2005. In addition to her legal practice, Ms Edwardh’s memberships and affiliations include: Vice-President, Canadian Civil Liberties Association; Director, Kenneth G. Gray Foundation; Director, Association in Defence of the Wrongly Convicted; Fellow, American College of Trial Lawyers: Member, Canadian Bar Association of Ontario; Member, Law Society of Upper Canada; and Member, Criminal Lawyers’ Association.