Dale Ponder

Canadian LawyerOnline

URL: https://www.canadianlawyermag.com/resources/practice-management/sixty-per-cent-of-oslers-chief-executive-positions-are-held-by-female-lawyers-report/327423

Financial TimesOnline

URL: https://www.ft.com/content/748db1e0-f2fc-11e8-ae55-df4bf40f9d0d

Business Insider, October 5, 2017Online

URL: http://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/Canadian-Business-Growth-Fund-Announces-Chief-Executive-Officer-and-Independent-Chair-1001551663

The Canadian Business Growth Fund, which will be an independently managed entity supported by Canada's leading banks and insurance companies, today announced the appointment of George Rossolatos to the position of Chief Executive Officer effective January 2018. Mr. Rossolatos will be working alongside Dale Ponder, the fund's newly appointed independent Chair.

Precedent Magazine, March 10, 2017Online

URL: http://lawandstyle.ca/tag/dale-ponder/

The 2017 Award of Distinction went to Dale Ponder, the national managing partner at Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP, for her outstanding contributions to the profession and to the Toronto legal community.

Law Times, November 28, 2016Online

URL: http://www.lawtimesnews.com/201611285792/inside-story/monday-november-28-2016

Dale Ponder, Osler’s managing partner and chief executive, will be the recipient of the Toronto Lawyers Association’s 2017 Award of Distinction, as announced in a recent article in Law Times. Ponder has practised at the firm since she was an associate in the 1980s, beginning her career as a tax lawyer and then moving into securities law where she made her mark as one of the country’s leading corporate and M&A practitioners.

Osler Update, April 15, 2016Online

URL: https://www.osler.com/en/about-us/press-room/2016/generation-gaps-lexpert-magazine

The problem law firms are facing is the promotion expectation from Gen-Xers. They expect to move up in companies faster than their older counter parts did. When they don’t get promoted, they move to Fortune 100 or NASDAQ listed companies, who are four times more likely to promote Generation X to management.

Precedent Magazine, September 9, 2015Online

URL: http://lawandstyle.ca/career/good-news-from-bay-street-its-never-been-better-to-be-a-woman-in-law

When lawyer and business development director Jodi Kovitz counts off women at the top of her firm, she runs out of fingers. The chief executive. Managing partners in Calgary and Ottawa. The chief operating officer and the chief client officer. Heads of litigation, tax, real estate, research, and on and on: all women. “We are committed to women comprising 30 percent of our teams, and we meet that objective as often as possible,” she says. Having women in senior roles is so common, it’s hardly a novelty. As Dale Ponder, the chief executive and national managing partner of Osler puts it, “It really is part of our DNA.”

Precedent, September 9, 2015Online

URL: http://lawandstyle.ca/career/good-news-from-bay-street-its-never-been-better-to-be-a-woman-in-law

Optics count, and for women on Bay Street, just seeing other women at the top inspires. This was something heard from both established luminaries at Osler and rising stars like senior associate and Ironman triathlete Lauren Tomasich.

Osler Update, December 5, 2011Online

URL: https://www.osler.com/en/about-us/press-room/2011/dale-ponder-named-one-of-canada-s-most-powerful-wo

The Women’s Executive Network has announced the recipients of the prestigious 2011 Canada’s Most Powerful Women: Top 100 awards. These awards have become one of Canada’s most recognizable honours bestowed on the country’s highest achieving women leaders in the private, public and not-for-profit sectors and celebrate the professional achievements of these women across the country.
Dale Ponder, managing partner of the firm, was once again recognized for her work in the Professionals category.

Women of Influence Magazine, November 15, 2011Online

URL: http://www.womenofinfluence.ca/2011/10/05/dale-ponder-4/#.WOzfmul1rGg

Women of Influence Magazine has published its “Top 25 Women of Influence” for this year in its Winter 2011 issue. This ranking is meant to “provide national recognition to Canada’s top female influencers of the year, whose successful achievements contribute to the Canadian and global economies as well as to their communities.”

Western University Alumni MagazineOnline

URL: http://www.alumni.westernu.ca/connect/alumni/dale-ponder.html

Dale Ponder is a force on Bay Street.

Canadian Lawyer Magazine, June 6, 2008Online

URL: http://www.canadianlawyermag.com/327/Ponder-following-on-in-Oslers-line-of-progressive-firm-leaders.html

Ponder talks to Canadian Lawyer about women in leadership and her role at Oslers.