PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE 2026

PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE 2026

It is a genuine privilege to serve as President of the Calgary Bar Association for 2026.

Thank you for your continued support of this Association. The Calgary Bar Association plays a unique and important role in our professional lives as a community that prioritizes mentorship, collegiality, connection, and fun. In a profession that is demanding by design, spaces that allow us to learn from one another, strengthen relationships, and step outside the pressures of daily practice matter deeply.

PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE 2025

PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE 2025

As we embark on the Calgary Bar Association’s 135th year, I am honoured to serve as your President. Our enduring mission, as outlined in Article 2 of our Bylaws, remains steadfast: to advance the interests of the legal profession, uphold the honour of the law, and encourage cordial relations among our members.

PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE 2022

PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE 2022

I am writing to you as the new president of this fine organization at the beginning of 2022 where we are hopeful to renew and fulfil an important part of our mandate: the gathering of our profession in a relaxed collegial environment to celebrate and promote civility amongst our members (hopefully in person).

PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE 2021

PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE 2021

I am writing to you once again as the president of this fine organization at the beginning of a new year where we hopefully will get to fulfill an important part of our mandate: the gathering of our profession in a relaxed collegial environment to celebrate and promote civility, hopefully without the masks.

PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE 2019

We take quite seriously (although hopefully with humour and fun), our mandate to promote civility, collegiality and a sense of community among and for our members. Our central thesis remains that it is more difficult to be snarky, obstreperous, less than forthright or worse with opposing counsel or the Court after you have met, talked with and perhaps even shared an adult beverage (or three) with that person at one of our events. It is also rewarding to feel part of a community of lawyers (and Judges) who make significant and meaningful contributions to worthwhile causes that need extra funding.