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Bell Let's Talk
Mental health and wellness in the legal profession is a priority of the Canadian Bar Association. We’ve even created a free online course by that very name, in association with Bell Let’s Talk and the Mood Disorders Society of Canada. The course is designed to help people in the legal profession understand mental health and addiction issues and to point them in the direction of available resources.
Me Pascale Pageau, Présidente de l'ABC-Québec, discute avec la Présidente de l’ABC, Me Vivene Salmon
Entretien avec la Présidente de l’ABC-Québec, Me Pascale Pageau Ad. E. et la Présidente de l’ABC, Me Vivene Salmon
CBC, March 14, 2021Radio/Podcast
URL: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/checkup/what-s-your-take-on-vaccine-passports-1.5946543
As the roll out of COVID-19 vaccines ramps up, so is the conversation around so-called vaccine passports.
58:30 Lawyer and information privacy expert Vivene Salmon
Minister David Lametti and Vivene Salmon
Canadian Bar Association, August 6, 2020Radio/Podcast
URL: https://theeverylawyer.simplecast.com/episodes/lametti-salmon
Yves Faguy speaks with Justice Minister and Attorney General of Canada David Lametti, and CBA President Vivene Salmon about how the justice system has coped with the pandemic, the digitalization of our courts, funding legal aid and criminal law reform
Why are there still so few Black lawyers on Bay Street?
Making policy not the same as taking action | Vivene Salmon
Driving real change in equality
Canadian Bar Association’s Vivene Salmon: ‘Systemic racism is not just an American problem’
Interview with CBA President Vivene Salmon
Biography
Vivene Salmon is a Certified Information Privacy Professional and holds the designation CIPP/C from the International Association of Privacy Professionals. Salmon completed her JD at the University of Ottawa in 2009 and was called to the Bar of Ontario in 2010. She is a President (2020) of the Canadian Bar Association (CBA). She is the first racialized person, 9th woman, and first female corporate counsel in the 124 year history of the organization to hold this position. In 2020, Salmon was honoured as a Top 25 Women of Influence, Top 100 Canadian Black Women to Watch 2020 and was named a Top 25 Influential Lawyer by Canadian Lawyer Magazine.
Recognition/Reconnaissance
The Top 25 Most Influential 2020 winner | Professional
Vivene Salmon is the first person of colour and the second in-house counsel to lead the Canadian Bar Association in its more than 120 years of existence. In this role, Salmon has devoted attention to bridging the gap among all generations of lawyers, such as through her Conversations with the President podcast series, which discusses technology, innovation and the different ways of practising law. She has also been instrumental in modernizing how the CBA communicates with its members, such as by using social media and vlogs. Amid the upheaval caused by the COVID-19 crisis, she helped in launching a national task force that would deal with the pandemic’s impacts on the justice sector. She also chaired the organizing committee for the CBA’s first conference dedicated to racialized lawyers. She is vice president, country compliance manager, global banking and markets compliance at Bank of America Merrill Lynch in Toronto, where she develops policies and procedures to comply with regulatory requirements.
Top 20 Woman of Influence | Professional
https://www.womenofinfluence.ca/2020/02/04/vivene-salmon/
In September 2019, Vivene Salmon was named president of the Canadian Bar Association, which represents over 37,000 lawyers, judges, notaries, law teachers, and law students from across Canada. What made the achievement extra remarkable? Vivene was the first person of colour to take the helm at the 123-year-old Association, and only the second to come from the in-house counsel community (she’s also the vice-president, country compliance manager, global banking and markets compliance at Bank of America Merrill Lynch in Toronto). A key focus of her one-year tenure has been to bridge the gap between generations in the legal profession; to that end, she kicked off a podcast series, Conversations with the President, in November 2019, and began vlogging on Twitter.