| Amma Anaman, JD/MBA 2012Career profile: Amma is currently Associate General Counsel and Legal Relationship Manager for U.S. Listings at Nasdaq, Inc. She advises current and prospective Nasdaq-listed companies on Nasdaq’s listing rules and corporate governance standards, supports Nasdaq’s public policy initiatives with Congress and the SEC, and advises Nasdaq’s corporate communications team on media relations. She is also Corporate Secretary for the Nasdaq Foundation, whose mission is to advance diversity in investor engagement. Prior to joining Nasdaq in 2018, Amma was in private practice at the New York offices of Sullivan & Cromwell and Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt where she advised public and private companies on corporate governance matters, securities laws and cross-border equity and debt offerings. She also practiced at the Baltimore office of Miles & Stockbridge, where she advised companies on SEC reporting obligations and M&A transactions. Amma received her Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Saskatchewan in 2008 and her JD/MBA from the University of Toronto in 2012. While studying at U of T, Amma was Assistant Editor, Law Review (Business Law Group); Co-Chair of the Black Law Students Association; a soup kitchen server with Lawyers Feed the Hungry; played intramural volleyball; danced in Law Follies; and tutored high school students with LAWS. Monday, January 17 | 12:40 - 1:50 p.m. Find out more and register |
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Kat Owens, JD 2015Career profile: Kat Owens is the project director for the Feminist Strategic Litigation Project at the Women’s Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF). Her work focuses on strategic planning, and contributing to the development and management of LEAF’s litigation and law reform work. Kat has worked as a staff lawyer at the Long-Term Care Homes Public Inquiry, as an Assistant Crown Attorney at College Park, and as a law clerk at the Court of Appeal for Ontario. She holds a J.D. from the University of Toronto and an LL.M. in International Legal Studies from New York University. Monday, January 24 | 12:40 - 1:50 p.m. Find out more and register |
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Alykhan Kurji, JD 2009Career profile: Alykhan works at Google in New York and is the Head of Strategic Partnerships for Pixel and Nest. Alykhan graduated from UofT law school in 2009. Upon graduating, he worked for one year at the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague before moving to New York where he worked as an M&A and Project Finance associate at White & Case and as an IP transactions associate at Shearman & Sterling. Alykhan joined Google in 2014 in the Bay Area as a commercial attorney working in Google's ads organization, advising clients across Google Shopping, Travel, Waze, and Google Ads. Alykhan eventually moved into Business Development under Google One in late 2018 before moving to his current role. Alykhan grew up in Calgary and studied Bioengineering at UC Berkeley and obtained a Masters in Biotechnology from the University of Pennsylvania. Monday, January 31 | 12:40 - 1:50 p.m. Find out more and register |
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William Goldbloom, JD 2015Career profile: William Goldbloom, principal and founder of WG Resolutions, is an experienced workplace investigator, trainer, and mediator. He provides clients with effective and affordable resolutions to workplace conflict and misconduct. He balances his innate curiosity about how people work together with neutrality and humility.
William has conducted investigations for clients in various industries including tech, media, healthcare, non-profits, municipalities, manufacturing, shipping, and education. In 2021, William was appointed to the Government of Canada’s national roster of workplace harassment and violence prevention investigators.
He has provided training on preventing workplace harassment and conducting investigations across Canada. He is an engaging presenter for a range of learners. He has trained executives, high school students, farmers, and medical professionals.
William is a Qualified Mediator with the ADR Institute of Canada and received training in workplace restoration by the International Institute of Restorative Practices.
Prior to founding WG Resolutions, William was a workplace investigator and trainer at a renowned workplace investigation law firm. He started his law practice as an employment and labour lawyer at an international law firm. Monday, February 7 | 12:40 - 1:50 p.m. Find out more and register |
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Noam Pratzer, JD 2014Note: This session is cancelled until further notice. Career profile: After summering at Davies in Toronto, Noam went on to clerk at Israel's Supreme Court and then enter private practise in Israel where he worked in commercial intellectual property and international M&A in Israel at Yigal Arnon & Co. Noam then transitioned to work in house structuring venture capital funds and investment deals at OurCrowd before leaving the legal field to start an adventure travel company called Get Out Adventures (aka Get Out Toronto). Monday, February 14 | 12:40 - 1:50 p.m. Find out more and register |
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Gillian Hnatiw, LLB 2002Career profile: Gillian Hnatiw is the Principal and founder of Gillian Hnatiw & Co., a boutique feminist litigation firm in Toronto. Her broad litigation practice focuses on health law, administrative law, professional regulation, employment law and, in particular, claims arising from sexual assault and harassment and other forms of gender-based violence and discrimination. Gillian is currently serving as Senior Commission Counsel to the Mass Casualty Commission, which is investigating the causes and circumstances of the April 2020 mass shooting in Nova Scotia. She is the former Chair of the Women’s Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF), which works to advance gender equality through litigation, law reform and public education. She speaks regularly at conferences and seminars on a wide range of topics and is frequently sought out by industry and mainstream media for comment on issues of sexual violence, gender equality, harassment and discrimination. In March 2020, the Toronto Lawyer’s Association awarded Gillian the Honsberger Award for her work exemplifying the TLA’s three pillars – Advocacy, Community and Knowledge – and hailed her as a “formidable champion of women’s civil rights”. In 2015, she was named to Lexpert's annual list of "Rising Stars: Leading Lawyers Under 40" and has been repeatedly recognized for her expertise in a variety of practice areas by Lexpert, Benchmark and Best Lawyers. Monday, February 28 | 12:40 - 1:50 p.m. Find out more and register |
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Robert C. Blitt, JD/MA 2000, LLM 2003Career profile: Robert C. Blitt is the Toms Foundation Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Tennessee College of Law. Professor Blitt joined the faculty as an associate professor in 2007 and was promoted to full professor in 2015. Before coming to Tennessee, Blitt served as International Law Specialist for the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), an independent, bi-partisan agency created by Congress to monitor freedom of thought, conscience, and religion or belief abroad. Prior to joining USCIRF, Professor Blitt spent over five years in the Middle East, where, among other things, he served with the Department of International Agreements in Israel’s Ministry of Justice, clerked for the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Israel, and directed projects at Physicians for Human Rights (Israel). In 2002, Professor Blitt was a Rabin Fellow for Peace and Tolerance at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Professor Blitt’s scholarship explores how international law norms apply to nonstate actors, including nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and intergovernmental organizations, and further, how these actors impact the development of international law. Professor Blitt’s current research projects include studying the movement of anti-constitutional ideas within the international system and exploring contemporary challenges to human rights norms and mechanisms. Monday, March 7 | 12:40 - 1:50 p.m. Find out more and register |
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Leslie McCallum, LLB 1995Career profile: I began my career as a law clerk and pursued an LLM at Columbia with a view to a potential academic career. Once in New York, I decided instead to try a transactional practice and spent 5 years doing US capital raising with Sherman & Sterling. I worked in the firm's boutique Toronto office where I received exemplary training in research. I moved to Torys in 2004 as Torys was seeking a US securities research lawyer and it was an opportunity to combine my US experience while learning Canadian securities law. Thus cross-border capital markets became my niche and Torys' culture was a perfect fit. I became intriqued by legal technology when Watson was unveiled by IBM. Learning about tech became a hobby and the more I learned, the more I dreamt about building a technology solution to improve capital markets research. I founded Lexata in 2019 with a mission to make researching this technical area of law faster and easier for non-experts. Founding a company puts one on a very steep learning curve but it's exhilarating and very rewarding. Lexata has two beta customers testing the product and is pursuing a funding partner to facilitate growth. I'd love to share my experiences with U of T students and I'm also more than happy to answer any questions about careers generally, legal tech, securities law, research vs transactional practice, managing career and motherhood, and being a start-up founder. Monday, March 14 | 12:40 - 1:50 p.m. Find out more and register |
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Motria Onyschuk-Morozov, JD/MBA 1996Career profile: Motria’s career has been focused on work in international development with the International Finance Corporation (IFC), part of the World Bank Group. She is currently based in Washington, DC, where she is responsible for improving processes, strategy, and governance around fundraising for IFC’s advisory, upstream, and blended finance activities. Prior to her time in DC, Motria spent ten years with IFC based in Kyiv, Ukraine, where she managed advisory projects across Eastern Europe and Central Asia to help local companies improve their corporate governance practices, regulatory agencies protect shareholder rights, and educational institutions enhance their law and business school curricula. She started her career as a corporate-commercial lawyer with the law firm of Baker & McKenzie, working in their Toronto and Kyiv offices. Monday, March 21 | 12:40 - 1:50 p.m. Find out more and register |
