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25 TOP MOST INFLUENTIAL Alan N. Young Associate professor, Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto During his colourful career, civil libertarian Alan Young has tackled many hard-hitting issues such as the legalization of marijuana. He is notorious for providing legal services to individuals whose alternative life- styles have led them to the courtroom — one of his most significant cases was the "bondage bungalow" dominatrix case in 1998. As well, he is behind the constitutional challenge to Canada's prostitution laws. While continuing to maintain his practice, which specializes in criminal law, he is also an associate pro- fessor at Osgoode Hall Law School, where he is the director of the Innocence Project, which involves LLB students in the investigation of suspected cases of wrongful conviction and imprisonment. Our judging panel We did run into some bumps along the way. As always, we strive to get representation from across the country but our judges from British Columbia as well as token parliamentarian agreed but didn't come through and efforts to get a former member of the judiciary didn't work out so well either. Nonetheless, an excel- lent panel of judges put forth almost 50 candi- dates from which our Top 25 were chosen. External Halifax: John MacL. Rogers, CEO, Stewart McKelvey Montreal: Yves Fortier, chairman emeritus, Ogilvy Renault LLP Toronto: Clay Horner, partner, Osler Hoskin & Harcourt LLP Toronto: Paul Copeland, human rights lawyer and former Law Society of Upper Canada bencher Ottawa: Eugene Meehan, partner, Lang Michener LLP and former Canadian Bar Association president Edmonton: Anne McLellan, former attorney general of Canada, now counsel with Bennett Jones LLP and special faculty member at University of Alberta In-house counsel: Melissa Kennedy, general counsel, corporate secretary, and senior vice president corporate affairs, Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Legal academia: Ian Holloway, dean, University of Western Ontario law school Internal Gail J. Cohen, editorial director, Canadian Lawyer and Law Times Glenn Kauth, editor, Law Times Robert Todd, staff writer, Canadian Lawyer and Law Times Kelly Harris, former editor, Canadian Lawyer InHouse Ruth Epstein, vice president, Canada Law Book Adam Lepofsky, president, RainMaker Group This article was compiled with the research assistance of Bryan Smith. Diamonds are a lawyer's best friend You don't need to search through mountains of irrelevant decisions in our online services. Select decisions chosen by experts are denoted with a to help you quickly identify the best decisions first. Then you can consider the rest of your search results. Diamond decisions are available in the following Canada Law Book online services: BestCase Canadian Employment Law (Ball) Canadian Patent Reporter online Criminal Pleadings & Practice (Ewaschuk) Criminal Spectrum Dominion Law Reports online Labour Spectrum For product details and pricing information visit www.canadalawbook.ca www. C ANADIAN Law ye rmag.com A UGUST 2010 39 THE