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1995<br />
Gary Gervais, founder and president <strong>of</strong> Heartland<br />
International English School, located in Winnipeg<br />
Manitoba, graduated with an MBA in May 2012 from <strong>the</strong><br />
Asper School <strong>of</strong> Business at <strong>the</strong> University <strong>of</strong> Manitoba.<br />
Allison Neapole, has for <strong>the</strong> last five years been working<br />
in Geneva Switzerland as in-house counsel at Addax<br />
Petroleum, an oil and gas exploration and production<br />
company. Allison says, “Working in an industry with<br />
finite resources and geopolitical sensitivities is certainly<br />
challenging! I firmly believe that <strong>the</strong> role <strong>of</strong> in-house<br />
counsel is that <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> conscience <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> organization. I<br />
ensure that my company can conduct <strong>the</strong> business it<br />
wants to in a way that is morally and ethically sound.”<br />
Allison says she enjoys living in <strong>the</strong> small but exciting city<br />
<strong>of</strong> Geneva “It’s surrounded by mountains, and since I love<br />
to ski and hike, that’s a bonus! Paris is only a three-hour<br />
train ride away, and London is 1.5 hours by plane.”<br />
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1997<br />
Darren Baccus has moved back to<br />
Canada after 11 years <strong>of</strong> working in<br />
New York with Torys LLP. Darren is now<br />
Associate General Legal Counsel at <strong>the</strong><br />
Alberta Investment Management Corp.<br />
(AIMCo), where he manages internal<br />
and external legal services. When not<br />
working, Darren can be found enjoying<br />
<strong>the</strong> day with his wife and daughter.<br />
Amanda Balasubramanian has been a partner with<br />
Torys LLP in Toronto since 2007. Amanda’s practice<br />
focuses on debt financing: corporate liquidity financing,<br />
acquisition finance, leverage finance, and high yield<br />
debt, domestically, internationally and globally. She is<br />
also co-chair <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Student Recruitment Committee.<br />
“I really enjoy being part <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> student recruitment<br />
process. We meet so many wonderful, talented, and<br />
interesting candidates from all over Canada. At Torys,<br />
we take a long-term view to recruiting so when we<br />
are interviewing students for summer positions, we<br />
are effectively recruiting our future partners. This is<br />
immensely important to <strong>the</strong> firm as a whole and every<br />
recruitment season we have more than 100 Torys lawyers<br />
that participate in <strong>the</strong> process. Everyone is excited to<br />
meet <strong>the</strong> candidates and <strong>the</strong>re is a real buzz around <strong>the</strong><br />
firm during interview week.”<br />
Casey Chisick partner at Cassels Brock & Blackwell<br />
LLP, was named a 2011 Lexpert Rising Star, a Leading<br />
<strong>Law</strong>yer Under 40, by Lexpert Magazine. Casey Chisick<br />
is a partner in <strong>the</strong> Entertainment <strong>Law</strong> and Intellectual<br />
Property practices and co-leader <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> firm’s Fashion<br />
Industry Practice Group. He is certified by <strong>the</strong> <strong>Law</strong><br />
Society <strong>of</strong> Upper Canada as a Certified Specialist in<br />
Intellectual Property (Copyright).<br />
1998<br />
Lisa Stiver, partner at Thompson Dorfman Sweatman<br />
LLP, was named a 2011 Lexpert Rising Star, a Leading<br />
<strong>Law</strong>yer Under 40, by Lexpert Magazine.<br />
2001<br />
Cynthia Lau, MPI, was <strong>the</strong> recipient <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Manitoba Bar<br />
Association’s 2011-2012 Headnotes & Footnotes Award.<br />
2005<br />
Dr. Mosope Fagbongbe (2005 LL.M.), obtained her Ph.D.<br />
in international human rights law, with particular focus<br />
on <strong>the</strong> African Regional Human Rights System, from <strong>the</strong><br />
University <strong>of</strong> British Columbia in November 2010. Dr.<br />
Fagbongbe is currently a Research Fellow, Legislative<br />
Drafting, at <strong>the</strong> Nigerian Institute <strong>of</strong> Advanced Legal<br />
Studies in Lagos, Nigeria. She teaches Legislative and<br />
Judicial Process at <strong>the</strong> Institute’s Post Graduate School.<br />
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