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w w w . C A N A D I A N L a w y e r m a g . c o m O c t O b e r 2 0 1 4 25 stressing the at length — how to do it right and properly. "Sometimes you've heard the same lecture three times, and perhaps don't want to hear it again, but years later you always remember what he's told people," says Sellar, who articled under Bayne 38 years ago. "He's a great teacher." Bayne says his passion for teaching comes from his appreciation of young people, and notes he's now a grandfa- ther of seven. "The reality is you want to do what you do well, and you want to help other people be as good as they can be if they want to become criminal lawyers," says Bayne. "It's an honour to do it well, and the reality is too that a lot of younger people start out now, and there isn't quite the amount of acces- sible mentoring there used to be in the profession. We've always had articling students, even though a lot of firms have dropped them. It's something everybody in our firm believes in." Many of those articling students go on to prestigious careers. One such student was Dalton McGuinty, who later became Ontario premier. Others, like both Rod Sellar and Norm Boxall, became part- ners. In fact, only one member of the firm didn't article there. "We've built the firm from within," says Bayne. "That's what I mean about having very good articling students. We've worked very hard at that too. We go through an inter- view process, we try to select the right people, we try to provide a good, healthy work environment. It's a demanding pro- fession. I think the actuaries say the trial lawyer has one of the shortest life spans, but we believe in a much more rounded life, and try to show that to people too." The people at the firm have described the atmosphere as familial, stemming from that shared history. "We are very good friends," says Bayne. "We've never had a partnership agreement; we've never needed one. 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