A Multitude of Changes but . . .

• Author: C. Ian Kyer
• Pages: 243-250

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M Ep ilogue N

A MULTITUDE OF

CHA NG E S BUT . . .

UMK business law practice continued to focus pri

marilyon nancial institutions insolvencymining andhea lthlawbuthe

remained the senior part ner for only six years. As had happened with Tom

Blackstock six decades before the demands of the oce longhours a nd

frequenttraveltoNewYorkandEnglandtookatollonMacKenzieshealth

In he su ered the rst of multiplest rokeswh ile on a business trip

toNew YorkHisw ifeFlorence wasi mmediatelyown down tobe with

him.Althoughheconti nuedtocome intothe oceforsomeyea rsaf terthi s

devastating event, he was never the same. Unable to practise, he turned his

mind to the past and prepared the memoirs of both Faskens and R io Algom

referred to in this h istory.

For the next two decades Williston was the star. He continued to gather

about him bright young litigators creating a sort of litigation boutique

withint helawrmSeveralof thoseyounglawyers wouldbeappointedto

the bench: John Sopinka, who went to the Supreme Court of Canada; John

Laskin and Eleanore Cronk, now on the Ontar io Court of Appeal; and Syd

ney Lederman, a judge of the Ontario trial d ivision. Some went on to dis

tinguished teach ing careers, including John McCamus, as dean of Osgoode

Hall Law School; Bruce Dunlop at the University of Toronto; and John Evans

at Osgoode Hall. Still others went into politics, like Bill Graham, who beca me

interim leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, and Alla n Rock, who became

the federal minister of justice, Canada’s ambassador to the United Nations,