This is part one of a two part interview with lawyer, Lisa
Bildy, about the recent Law Society of Ontario board elections. The board
members are known as "benchers". There are some 53 benchers at
the LSO. 8 are known as the "Lay
Benchers"; 20 elected from Toronto lawyers; 20 elected among lawyers
outside of Toronto; and 5 elected from paralegals across Ontario.
In 2019, the STOP SOP (http://stopsop.ca/) slate of
benchers, whose campaign was headed up by Lisa, won 22 of the bencher seats -
they were committed to ensuring that the law society stuck to its core mandate
of ensuring legal professionals were competent rather than governing on
"woke" ideology. It caused an
upset - even they were not the majority they were instrumental in getting rid
of the LSO's Statement of Principles requirement.
This time, in 2023, under the banner of FULL STOP (https://fullstoplso.ca/) candidates lost to The Good Governance
Coalition (https://www.goodgovernancecoalition.ca/) 45 seats to 0!
However, since the election two of the 45 were given
government appointments and one was elected as "Treasurer" of the Law
Society - which opened three seats. That meant that 3 of the FULL STOP
slate are now benchers as they had the next highest votes in the bencher
election.
Barry spoke with Lisa on this and the campaign she ran and
what comes next.
Join us and listen in to what Lisa has to share.
This the part one of a two-part interview.
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