Munirul-Haq Raza
Contributor
Lawyers from York’s Osgoode Hall Law School have once again made Canadian Lawyer magazine’s list of the 25 most influential lawyers in Canada.
Osgoode’s Dean Lorne Sossin, professor Alan Young, and Osgoode grad and current Ontario Chief Justice Warren Winkler were all featured on the list.
Sossin, who the list calls “a leader in the profession of law,” says individuals from Osgoode having such a strong presence in the top 25 ranking is a good message for law students because it shows their school is not just a leader in legal education, but also a place where you can be active in many areas where law has an impact.
Winkler appeared at the top of the list under the corporate-commercial law section and is described in the magazine as a “straight-talking Ontario chief justice” who is once again “setting the bar in areas of corporate-commercial law.”
Young, an Osgoode professor and civil libertarian, has been included on Canadian Lawyer’s list since its inception. He is described by the magazine as someone who “has brought constitutional challenges to Canada’s gambling, obscenity, bawdy-house, and drug laws, and for more than a decade, has provided free legal services for people whose alternative lifestyles have brought them into conflict with the law.”
The magazine’s list, which has been one of its most popular features for the past two years, selects well-known figures in Canadian law who have been influential in the profession as well as Canadian society over the last 18 months.
