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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 A U G U S T 2 0 1 5 29 OSGOODE ALUMNI & FACULTY Congratulations Sara Cohen '06 Dawn Devoe '01 Rocco Galati '87 '97 LLM Marie Henein '89 Mark Tamminga '86 Lorne Waldman '77 Professor Poonam Puri You Make Us Proud! Untitled-9 1 2015-07-09 4:40 PM MARK TAMMINGA Partner, Gowling Lafl eur Henderson LLP, Hamilton, Ont. Tamminga has devoted his career to automating legal practices. His infor- mation technology focus began in 1986 while he was still a law student and was given the task of systemiz- ing the production environment for mortgage files. Since then, Tamminga's aptitude for legal technology has only grown with Gowlings LLP. Three years ago, he was named Gowlings' Innova- tion Initiatives leader. He is responsible for automating the Gowlings recovery services practice. He has designed and built a number of additional practice systems in the areas of debt collection, loan placement, and civil litigation. His role has required re-thinking the thornier aspects of large firm opera- tions: managing cultural change, inducing client- side thinking, and building the com- pensation mechan- ics, which drive new behaviour. ALICE WOOLLEY Professor and associate dean-academic, University of Calgary Faculty of Law, Calgary, Alta. Woolley is a true changemaker in the area of law and technology as well as law regulation. She has been a valu- able member of the Canadian Bar Association's ethics and professional responsibility committee. Her work with the CBA Futures project as an ethics and regulatory issues team member is truly making a mark in the legal community. Woolley is also responsible for sweeping educational changes as chairwoman of the committee that developed and adopted significant curricular changes at the University of Calgary's Faculty of Law, which focus on the practical elements of legal education and will come into effect in September. WHAT THE PANEL HAD TO SAY: "Tamminga has shown real vision in tackling tough issues that many law firms are not quite ready to take on." WHAT VOTERS HAD TO SAY: "Leading expert on legal profession and ethics; when she talks, people listen." "Alice is a pragmatic visionary. Teaching law students in a way that will prepare them for a 21st century practice is of critical importance to the future of our profession." CHANGEMAKERS

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