Date
Monday, June 22, 2020
8 PM - 9 PM
Women’s Philanthropy X Lawyers Division present:
Maintaining personal balance while navigating a legal career
Women’s Philanthropy Signature Sponsor:
Please join us for an intimate conversation about navigating a law career and maintaining a healthy personal life. Whether you are raising a family, pursuing creative or athletic interests, or volunteering in your community, it can be overwhelming to try and “do it all” while being “the best” both professionally and personally.
We will be joined by a panel of female lawyers who have carved out unique approaches that successfully combine their careers with fulfilling personal lives.
Please come prepared to ask those often-uncomfortable questions and have an open conversation with fellow participants and panelists.
Panelists:
Nancy Stitt
Partner, Stitt + Zosky (Legal Search and Consulting)
Hilary Goldstein
Partner, Buchli Goldstein LLP
Carolyn Silver
General Counsel,
College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario
For more information, please contact Sari Disenhouse: [email protected]
Women’s Philanthropy Chair
Melissa Muskat
Women’s Philanthropy Vice-Chair
Perri Kirshenblatt
Event Committee
Nurit Altman, Yael Bogler, Bonnie Goldberg & Ruthie Wahl
SPEAKERS
Nancy Stitt
Prior to starting Stitt + Zosky, Nancy was the Director of Student Programs at two of Canada’s top law firms for 20 years. At Goodmans LLP and Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP, she was responsible for successfully recruiting, integrating, training, and managing Canada's top law students to help them realize their best potential. She previously practiced in Osler's Litigation department, after graduating from U of T Law School with a Psychology degree from Western.
Nancy has met and worked with thousands of lawyers and law students, and facilitated numerous connections in the legal industry. She has extensive experience in understanding how top law firms and legal departments operate, as well as vast and deep connections in the legal and business communities. She uses her experience and connections, along with personalized attention and care, passion, integrity, and discretion in all her dealings at Stitt + Zosky.
Nancy takes great pride and joy in connecting great lawyers with the right roles.
Hilary Goldstein
Hilary is a founding partner at Buchli Goldstein LLP. Hilary's practice is focused primarily on representing production companies, distributors, broadcasters, individuals, and financiers on all aspects of the development, production, and exploitation of film, television, and new media properties. Hilary has vast experience in structuring international treaty co-productions, co-ventures, domestic content productions, as well as acting for both lenders and producers on complex financing transactions. She regularly advises clients in their dealings with government agencies and Canadian cultural industries.
Hilary has been recognized as a leading Entertainment lawyer by The Canadian Legal Lexpert ® Directory, The Best Lawyers in Canada, The Legal Media Group Guide to the World’s Leading Lawyers and by Euromoney’s Guide to the World’s Leading Technology, Media & Telecommunications Lawyers.
Before starting the firm with Christina, she was a partner at a national law firm. Hilary is a frequent speaker and lecturer at conferences on a range of media-and entertainment-related issues and is on the board of directors of Film Ontario.
Carolyn Silver
Carolyn Silver is General Counsel for the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario where she prosecutes before the College’s Discipline Committee, represents the College before other administrative tribunals and Ontario Courts, and provides legal advice to the College’s statutory committees. She acted as counsel for the College at the Goudge Inquiry into Pediatric Forensic Pathology in Ontario and served as counsel to the Honorable Mr. Sydney L. Robins on the Robins Review into preventing sexual misconduct in Ontario schools. Ms. Silver represented Ontario on Canada’s national medical regulatory authority’s (FMRAC’s) working group on telemedicine, and assisted in developing the telemedicine policy for Ontario. Prior to her position at the College, Ms. Silver was a civil litigator with Goodmans LLP. She attended McGill University for her undergraduate studies, where she was a Faculty Scholar, and received her LL.B. from Osgoode Hall Law School (1994). Ms. Silver spent her articling year as a clerk to the judges of the Court of Appeal for Ontario. She was called to the Ontario Bar in 1996. An accomplished student, she was the recipient of numerous awards during her law studies at Osgoode including the Ivan Cleveland Rand Scholarship, the Clifton Lane Memorial Prize, the Cassels Brock & Blackwell Constitutional Law Annual Award, the Fogler Rubinoff Prize in Property Law, and the Part Time LL.M. Program Award in Constitutional Law. Ms. Silver has taught for many years in the Intensive Trial Advocacy Workshop (“ITAW”) and is currently an instructor in the Trial Advocacy course at Osgoode Hall Law School, where she is an adjunct professor. She is a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada, the Canadian Bar Association, and the Advocates Society.