Julia Wilkes

Adair Goldblatt Bieber LLP

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“I had a picture of a house, and the house was Premiere Mortgage Centre”

Kerri Reed, Premiere Mortgage Centre

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Winner: RISING STAR

Andrea is an Employee Learning and Development professional with two years of experience who is passionate about using her skills to implement innovative and pioneering HR initiatives to drive a culture of professional development. Her strengths lay in people and relationship management, critical thinking and delivering behaviour change projects with an innovative twist. She has been responsible for introducing compliance learning tailored to our significantly diverse employee base of over 12,000 and using her skills to create engagement for and roll out of 'Altogether Autism & Neurodiversity awareness programme at The Warehouse Group. She has shifted the way our team engages with learning, cultivating a continuous learning and development culture specific to their journey.

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J.R. Laffin is widely recognized as a leading dealmaker and talented public M&A lawyer. He advises on many of Canada’s most sophisticated and complex M&A transactions, offering strategic solutions and innovative approaches. J.R. was honoured in 2021 as a Top 10 M&A lawyer in Canada by a global news outlet for his leadership in high-profile transactions. He is known for his legal expertise, professionalism and collaborative approach helping clients complete industry-altering transactions. In addition to his distinguished legal presence, J.R. provides leadership as public M&A practice group head and is an active mentor to junior lawyers providing advice and support.

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Julia is a partner at Adair Goldblatt Bieber LLP. She provides advice to a range of corporate and individual clients in all manner of civil, commercial, and administrative proceedings, including professionals, statutory officers, shareholders, and directors and officers. She has a robust regulatory and administrative law practice assisting municipal integrity commissioners, athletes, university students, and regulated professionals accused of misconduct. A tried and tested advocate, Julia has acted as lead counsel on trials in the Superior Court of Justice, on judicial reviews in the Divisional Court, and in hearings before various tribunals. Julia also regularly acts as a mediator and arbitrator in sports-related disputes and has been appointed to the World Triathlon Tribunal. Julia’s exceptional litigation services are consistently recognized by her clients and peers in leading legal publications. Since 2020, Benchmark Litigation has named Julia a Litigation Star and top 40 & Under litigator and in both 2022 and 2023 shortlisted her for the Emerging Talent Litigator of the Year. Julia is also recognized by Lexpert as a Leading Practitioner in both corporate commercial litigation and regulatory and public law litigation. Chambers & Partners has similarly ranked Julia as an “up-and-coming” lawyer in the area of Administrative & Public Law Litigation, with their research noting her “expert knowledge,” her “broad and deep experience in the field,” that she is “innovative [and] listens to [her clients’] point of view,” and that she consistently delivers “outstanding service and work product.”