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12:41 AM 5/6/11 Page 51 CCCA_V5No2_Col-News-FIN.qxd:CCCA_V1No2_Col-News-V1.qxd Nouvelles de l’ACCJE Anne Giardini QC, left, president of Weyerhaeuser Company Ltd., was honoured at the Spring Conference with the Robert V.A. Jones Award; conference co-chairs Karen Louie, general counsel of Harlequin Enterprises Ltd. and Jay Safer, general counsel of IBM Canada, centre, kept things running smoothly; in March, Fred Headon became the first in-house counsel to be elected second vice-president of the CBA. cross-border mergers and acquisitions. “Her active involvement in the in- chapter on in-house corporate practice in Conference plenaries drove home the house community, along with her writing Canadian Legal Practice — A Guide for the solution/success-oriented theme, focus- on substantive legal issues important to all 21st Century (Butterworths, 2009) ing on issues such as litigation prepared- corporate lawyers, combine to make her The RobertV.A. Jones Award is named ness, recent developments in Canada-U.S. the ideal candidate and winner.” in honour of CCCA's founding executive trade and sanctions, and proving and Giardini serves as president of the director, Robert Jones.The Award recog- communicating the value of the in-house Canadian subsidiary of one of the world’s nizes leaders in corporate counsel practice legal department. leading forestry companies. After joining and those persons who have made excep- Keynote speaker Andrew Ross Sorkin's Weyerhaeuser in 1994 as legal counsel, tional contributions to the development captivating account of the recent financial she served as assistant general counsel or promotion of the corporate counsel bar crisis, drawn from his book, Too Big to before becoming vice-president and gen- or community, including significant Fail, sparked numerous questions and eral counsel in 2006. She has been presi- research or writing on related issues. comments from the spellbound crowd. dent since 2008. Full details of the 2011 Robert V.A. Other speakers such as Michael Wilson, Giardini has been active in CCCA Jones Award are available on the CCCA chair of Barclays Capital Canada Inc., since 2002 and in the CBA since the start website. Neil St. John, director of government of her career. She continues to share her relations and legal counsel at the insights on the practice of law and issues Canadian Public Accountability Board of importance to corporate counsel at a CCCA In-House Counsel and Governor James Blanchard, a former number of important CCCA and CBA Barometer Survey U.S. ambassador to Canada, shared their events and conferences. Most recently, she The CCCA In-House Counsel Barometer extensive expertise. was a panelist at the closing plenary Survey, now in its seventh year, continues “Proving and Communicating the Value to provide added value to the Canadian of the In-House Legal Department” dur- corporate counsel community. This year, CCCA honours Anne Giardini ing the National Spring Conference. 864 in-house members completed the Anne Giardini, QC, president of In addition to being an active volunteer online questionnaire,a clear indication that Weyerhaeuser Company Limited, head- in the in-house community, Giardini is an our members welcome the Barometer and quartered inVancouver, is the 2011 recipi- accomplished writer on substantive legal the insight it provides into the corporate ent of the CCCA RobertV.A.JonesAward. issues,as well as an acclaimed novelist.She counsel experience in this country. Anne Giardini “exemplifies what it is co-author of a chapter on aboriginal The CCCA and Davies Ward Phillips CARLOS AMAT means to be a leader in the corporate rights and industry in Aboriginal Law: & Vineberg LLP's 2011 In-House Counsel Barometer Survey, conducted by counsel community today,” says Robert Developments since Delgamuukw (Canada Vision Critical, introduced new topics Patzelt, QC, chair of CCCA. Law Book, 2009) and co-author of a ÉTÉ 2011 CCCA Canadian Corporate Counsel Association 51