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- This year only, as a "primer-blog", I've been doing a hockey goalie blog, which although time-consuming, is fun and has given me a good appreciation of the pros and cons of blogs. It's at http://breakerswha.blogspot.com/.
Lloyd Duhaime
Living in the Cook Street Village area of Victoria.
Moved to Victoria on June 10, 1995 in search of a snow-free life where the Canadian flag still flies.
Found it! Been there! Doing it! Staying here!
Member of the Law Society of British Columbia, former member of the Law Society of Quebec (1985-1998; aka Barreau du Quebec), one-time member of the Law Society of Alberta (September 2001), present or former member of the Canadian Bar Association, the Trial Lawyers Association of British Columbia, the Victoria Bar Association and the Association des juristes d'expression francaise de la Colombie-britannique.
Recently recognized by the Quebec English School Board in the Montreal Gazette and Le Soleil, as a distinguished graduate, along with boxer Otis Grant and the GM of the Ottawa Senators, Bryan Murray.
BRAGGING RIGHTS!
Born in Baie-Comeau, Quebec.
Graduated from Baie-Comeau High School in 1977. Highlight was playing guard for the BCHS Warriors, winning Quebec North Shore basketball championship all three years I was with the senior team and being scouted in my final year, at the provincial small schools championships (which we won in 1975, thanks to a wonderful friend, Coach Tom Danforth, now of Rangeley, Maine). Athlete of the Year in my final year. Never lost a Quebec North Shore high school track or cross-country running event, setting records in the 1500m, 3000m and 6000m and reaching the provincial finals for all those events (thanks Jim Sparks, now a retired teacher in Fredericton, NB and former Canadian record-holder in the 400m). Now a still-undrafted oldtimers hockey goaltender.
Attended CEGEP at Saint Lawrence College in Quebec City. Captain of the basketball team my final year playing in the Quebec City division of the provincial collegiate basketball association.
Civil law school at Université de Montreal, winning law school moot court and then provincial moot court competition in my last year. Ran a 3:06 marathon while studying in Montreal. Wrote bar exams in Quebec City in 1984-85.
Articled and then joined Savard Nadeau Francoeur, a law firm in Baie-Comeau for initial private practice experience, 1985-86. Called to the Quebec law society on November 15, 1985. Argued and won an commercial law case before the Supreme Court of Canada on November 18, 1985, only days after call to Bar. Awesome one-year experience with this small yet dynamic firm in my former home town.
Accepted invitation to bigger, more exciting things and left firm in April, 1986 moving to Ottawa to join the political staff of the Hon. Harvie Andre, Associate Minister of National Defence (April 1986) as Legislative Assistant.
In June of 1986, Mr. Andre was appointed Minister of Consumer and Corporate Affairs (now Industry Canada). I accepted a position as Legal and Policy Advisor to him at CCAC (now Industry Canada). Principally advised on the dismantling of the UFFI program, bankruptcy and corporations matters and, later, the Canada Post Corporation.
In 1987, appointed General Counsel and Secretary of the Standards Council of Canada, a 60-employee, $8-million Crown corporation of the Government of Canada promoting standardization in Canada.
Incorporated Jurisfax Canada Inc., a cutting-edge fax-on-demand service for Canadian lawyers, charging $2-a-page for legal decisions, focusing on Supreme Court decisions. Company sold in 1991 to my great friend, David Scott and subsequently renamed 3-Way Street Corporation, a thriving computer consultancy firm based in Ottawa, with which I am no longer associated.
In 1992, I accepted a secondment offer as Legislative Assistant to the Hon. Pierre Blais, Minister of Justice and President of the Privy Council. Managed to get six bills through the House in last Session of Parliament including legislation on anti-stalking and electronic surveillance (Justice Canada). Hi-light was the Cambridge Lectures in June and saving the Hon. Beverly McLachlin from being hit by a bus on a narrow Cambridge bridge (now Chief Justice of Canada's Supreme Court), and if she denies it, we can always ask Frank!
Returned to my position at the Standards Council and promoted to General Counsel and Director of Policy.
Pining for Victoria, in 1995, I accepted an appointment as Senior Reciprocity Officer with the Reciprocal Enforcement of Maintenance Orders (REMO) office of the Attorney General of British Columbia. Reduced the file turnover time from six months to a matter of weeks, eliminating the need for my own position! Reconstructed the entire program; doing away with time-intensive word-processing tasks and other changes to speed the process (completed in spite of management pressure not to simplify!).
Application for transfer to the Law Society of British Columbia involved completion of partial common law school curriculum, completed in February 1997. Practice examinations completed in May 1997 and I was (finally) certified in common law.
Called to the Law Society of British Columbia on May 23, 1997. Called to the Alberta Law Society on September 29, 1999 (although not presently a member).
Ran into some Dilbert-type old middle management types in the Government. Suppression of creativity in public service drove me nuts!
Took the plunge and left the Public Service in 1998, pension, paid vacation and all, to open my own firm, a lifelong goal, Duhaime Law (formerly "Duhaime & Company").
Member of the Barreau du Québec since November 16, 1985 and of the Canadian Bar Association and, as of May 1997, of the Law Society of British Columbia.
Member of the Victoria Bar Association. Past contributor to the Law Society's Professional Legal Training Course in Family Law. Joined the Trial Lawyers Association of British Columbia circa 2002.
Business Law professor, Camosun College, Victoria, 2006-2007.
I'M NO PIERRE BERTON
Started a high school newsletter. Continued as contributing writer for the Saint Lawrence student newsletter. Also wrote for the Université de Montréal law school newspaper. Summer job with Plein-Jour sur Manicouagan in 1983 (Baie-Comeau and Quebec North Shore regional weekly newspaper) as journalist and photographer. Later became weekly columnist of the Quebec Nordiques, an National Hockey League franchise (now the Colorado Avalanche).
Wrote and published an socio-economic almanac of the Quebec North Shore area in 1983. Wrote and published the history of Baie-Comeau in 1985 (De Puissance Comblée). Wrote and published articles in the Toronto Star, the Montreal Gazette and the Ottawa Citizen.
Wrote and published the Canadian Barrister in 1989-1990, an eight-page, 8/year newsletter for Canadian lawyers.
National legal affairs columnist for the Quebec law society weekly newspaper. House of Commons columnist for the Ottawa Hill Times. Feature writer of numerous articles appearing in the Canadian Bar Association's National. Legal writer with published articles on standards and the law and international trade appearing in specialized legal newsletters.
Wrote and published through Stoddart Publishers in Toronto, in 1992, Hear! Hear! 125 Years of Debate in Canada's House of Commons. Completed a history of the Duhaime family in North America (also known as Lemaitre, Duheme and Duhame) entitled The Musket and the Cane ($25 Cdn or $20 US).
In consultation with the Carleton County Law Association computer users group, wrote, programmed and implemented a Canadian Legal Information Bulletin Board System in Ottawa in 1994 using Wildcat! 4 software. Founder and President of the Canadian Legal Information Association, a not-for-profit organization conceived to provide Canadian legal information on the Internet. Reconstituted as the World Wide Legal Information Association in September 1995, essentially transferred to www.duhaime.org in 2000.
Columnist "The Order Paper", for The Lawyers Weekly, 1998.
Lloyd Duhaime est avocat (membre du Barreau du Québec et du Law Society of British Columbia).
Né à Baie-Comeau en 1959, Me Duhaime a pratiqué le droit pendant 11 ans à Baie-Comeau, à Hull et à Ottawa avant d'arriver à Victoria en juin 1995.
Entre 1985 et 1993, il a aussi oeuvré en tant que conseiller politique du Premier ministre du Canada et de quelques-uns de ses ministres dont le Ministre de la justice et celui de l'Industrie.
De 1986 à 1995, il a occupé les postes de secrétaire corporatif, avocat-conseil général et directeur des politiques du Conseil canadien des normes à Ottawa.
Durant ses temps libres, il a écrit cinq livres dont De Puissance Comblée (l'histoire de Baie-Comeau) et Hear! Hear! (une histoire de la Chambre des communes), en plus de contribuer plus de 200 articles, à titre de pigiste, pour plusieurs publications juridiques ou générales, dont le Toronto Star, le Montreal Gazette, le Ottawa Citizen et la revue de l'Association du Barreau Canadien. En 1994, il a fondé www.duhaime.org vouée a l'accès à l'information juridique. Il demeure dans le district Cook Street Village de Victoria. Il est un fervent partisan de l'unité canadienne.