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www.canadianlawyermag.com 37 In-house DEBORAH GREENBERG Chief information officer, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, Montreal At CMHC, Deborah Greenberg steered her legal team through a major organizational and cultural change with a key focus on client service and promoting professional development and opportunities with the approximately 40 members of her team. On April 1, Greenberg assumed responsibility for the information technology, data and analytics, security and administration sector at CMHC as chief information officer. Greenberg is regularly involved in organizations and panels. This includes volunteer work at Éducaloi, a non-profit organization whose mission is to improve access to justice through converting legalese into everyday language. She is a member of the board and chairwoman of the Québec region for Women General Counsel Canada. She participated on a panel on the subject of "resilience" at the WGCC annual conference in January 2018. In April, Greenberg will moderate at the Montreal launch of a new initiative between WGCC and Blake Cassels & Graydon LLP called Stepping Beyond, which is directed at women general counsel preparing for opportunities beyond their GC role. In-house PETER NGUYEN General counsel and corporate secretary, Resolver Inc., Toronto In 2018, Peter Nguyen led a team at Resolver to develop a digital tool designed and geared to modernize his legal department by replacing paper-based templates and Excel spreadsheets with a modern, easy-to-use piece of cloud-based software. This tool provides the necessary data to operate a modern legal department with its focus on quantitative metrics and analytics. Since January 2018, he has hosted quarterly dinners, under the moniker GC Forum, and arranges for speakers from professional services firms to sponsor the dinners. General counsel attendees have free admission and everyone there gets CPD credits. We congratulate our partner Trina Fraser, one of Canada's Top 25 Most Influential Lawyers in the Changemakers category, as voted by Canadian Lawyer. Brazeau Seller Law is a mid-sized Ottawa business law firm and exclusive Ottawa member of Meritas, a worldwide alliance of independent law firms, allowing Brazeau Seller Law to service its clients globally. Brazeau Seller Law lawyers are forward thinking deal makers and problem solvers whose priority is to work with our clients to achieve their goals. 700100 QUEEN STREET OTTAWA, ONTARIO CANADA K1P 1J9 BRAZEAUSELLER.COM