The evening begins at 6 pm with a cocktail reception. The awards ceremony and dinner banquet start at 7:30. And at 10:30 the post-awards celebration gets underway.
The host for the evening will be the personal finance expert and bestselling author, Melissa Leong, the resident money expert on CTV’s the Social. Leong has a long journalism career, reporting on crime, politics, terrorism, arts, and business for the National Postthe Toronto Starand The Globe and Mail. In addition to CTV, she frequently appears on BNN, CBC Radio, Breakfast Television, CP24, GlobalNews, Canada AMand Newstalk 1010.
The Canadian Law Awards are produced in partnership with event partner LEAP; award sponsors Dye & Durham, Lawson Lundell LLP, Toronto Metropolitan University’s Lincoln Alexander School of Law, and Singleton Urquhart Reynolds Vogel LLP; red carpet sponsor Norton Rose Fulbright; official ballot accountant PwC; and supporting organization South Asian Bar Association of Toronto.
“I think we have an excellent bar here in Canada,” says Polson, a partner in advisory and disputes at PwC Canada. “We’re happy to see people who do good work get recognized.”
“It’s inspiring, frankly, to see some of the accomplishments of some of our bar.”
