Law Career
In 1956, he joined the law firm of Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt as a student. Specializing in corporate and commercial law, he became an Associate Lawyer in 1958, Partner in 1962, and a Senior Partner from 1970 to 1985. He articled with Roland Ritchie in Halifax and studied labour law at Harvard with Archie Cox who is best known as the Watergate prosecutor. From 1964 to 1968, he was a Special Lecturer at the Osgoode Hall Law School of York University and taught at the University of Toronto Law School from 1969 to 1971. In the early 1960s he worked with the Kimber Committee which recommended a new securities law for Ontario in 1965. He was involved in drafting the legislation to implement the Kimber recommendations. As a result a new Securities Act was enacted in Ontario and subsequently in other Provinces of Canada. This Securities Act is the foundation for securities law in Canada today.
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