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REGIONAL WRAP-UP BROCK'S PORTRAITS OF HOPE across Europe to celebrate his then five-year- old triumph of life over death. In the process, Brock, a partner with Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP and a seven-year survivor of acute T wo years ago Montreal litigator William Brock undertook a six-week cycling odyssey of almost 3,000 kilometres myeloid leukemia, raised more than $300,000 for education and research into treatment for others challenged by cancers of the blood. Now an indefatigable fundraiser, Brock is back with another volley intended to throw light where there is often dark — and amass more money for the cause. Instead of a bicycle, this William Brock self portrait. SPECIALIZATION IN BUSINESS LAW Part-time, Executive LLM program for corporate counsel and practising lawyers time Brock's tool of choice is a camera. The result is Portraits of Hope, a collection of photo- graphic portraits of 46 men, women, and children who are all survivors of a form of life-threatening blood cancer along with profiles of some of the doctors and nurses at Montreal's Hôpital Maisonneuve-Rosemont hospital, the teaching hospital of Université de Montréal, where Brock received treatment that included a successful bone-marrow transplant from his brother. "Each one of these people has an incred- ible story," says Brock of the survivors who each wrote inspiring personal testimonials that appear alongside some 200 photos he and Angela Boismenu — the Montreal pho- tographer the lawyer partnered with for the project — chose out of an estimated 22,000 taken in more than 60 photo shoots over the past two years. Well-known people profiled include Saku Koivu, the 37-year-old Finnish hockey player treated for non-Hodgkin lymphoma; Paul Henderson, 69, the National Hockey League icon diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukemia in 2009; and John Gomery, 80, the now-retired Quebec Superior Court justice who headed up the Gomery Commission and was diagnosed with leukemia in 2002. All proceeds from the book, published both For more information, call 416-978-1400 or visit: http://www.law.utoronto.ca/programs/GPLLM.html TIME: EVENT: Supported by the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) - Ontario Chapter and in partnership with Carswell, a Thomson Reuters business. GLLM_IH_Apr_12.indd 1 8 A U GUST 2012 www.CANADIAN Lawyermag.com in English and French, will go to the special fund Brock created at Maisonneuve-Rosemont that has already raised more than $1 million since its creation in November 2006. "Through the stories of those who have faced the terror of blood cancers and triumphed over it, I hope my book will inspire others and encourage them to donate generously to research," says Brock. "Such research will hopefully allow many more to say: 'I have beaten leukemia, I am alive, I am strong, and I am forever grateful.'" See more of Portraits of Hope at portraitsofhope.ca 12-05-03 10:58 AM — KL

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