Award Categories

 

Western Canada General Counsel of the Year

(selected by WCGCA Advisory Board)

The WCGCA Advisory Board will be responsible for nominating and selecting the recipient of the 2009 Western Canada General Counsel of the Year Award.

In selecting the Western Canada General Counsel of the Year, our advisory board looks for excellence, the ability to deal with complexity across both issues and jurisdictions and a sure-handedness in dealing with whatever challenges are faced. In choosing one person to be honoured above all others, our board looks most carefully at the role each candidate played in their company's overall health and well-being.

Our Western Canada General Counsel of the Year winner represents the very best of what this profession stands for.

 

 

Lifetime Achievement Award                                                              nominate

To find our Lifetime Achievement winner, our advisory board look for a senior member of the in-house bar, one who has made a real difference –– both within their own company and in-house department, as well as with the external counsel who have worked alongside them during their careers.

A lifetime achievement winner has the broadest possible range of accomplishments – the ability to run the complicated deals, the major litigation, the handling of governance issues as well as employment and regulatory matters. They will also have made a lasting contribution to their work community and the community at large within which their company operates. In short, they’ve done it all.

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Business Achievement                                                                       nominate

Judges will be looking for evidence of the role the nominee has played in setting and implementing the overall strategy and success of the division or company’s business.

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Tomorrow's Leader                                                                           nominate

Seeking to highlight and encourage a leader of the general counsel bar of tomorrow in his/her growth and development, judges will be looking for counsel that has been called to a Canadian Bar for ten years or less. Nominated counsel will not only demonstrate superior legal capability but also demonstrate great leadership through actions and attitude when facing significant transactions or litigation that affects the business.

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Commodities Deal of the Year                                                           nominate

Judges will be looking for evidence of innovation in the transaction and how it affected the structure or outcome of the deal; overall complexity; how the nominee managed the cross-jurisdictional issues where appropriate, and management of both internal and external teams. When it comes to commodities we mean metals, oil, gas, grain, rocks, etc.

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