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CANADIANLAWYERMAG.COM/INHOUSE JANUARY 2017
ON A WEEKNIGHT IN EARLY NOVEMBER, Mark Johnson found himself at a meeting
in the library of a Toronto junior public school in Riverdale listening to community residents
voice concerns about a shooting that had taken place in the community a few months before.
The purpose of the meeting was to let the community members know what Toronto
Community Housing was doing to combat crime in their complex. "We got an earful. That's
part of the job," says Johnson who is the still relatively new general counsel and corporate
secretary with the legal services division of TCHC.
For the people
Toronto Community Housing Corporation's legal
department is a diverse group of lawyers tackling some
of the toughest assignments in Canada's biggest city.
BY JENNIFER BROWN
ROBIN
KUNISKI
