Faculty of Law Case for Support

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MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT

At the University of Calgary, we are educating our city’s future leaders and enhancing our institutions growing profile on the world stage by strengthening our commitment to research and scholarship. Our focus lies in enriching the quality and breadth of learning, and being fully integrated with our community.

As Canada’s leading next-generation university, we are improving the student experience and quality of education at the University of Calgary. Our institution is dedicated to providing a diverse, research-informed experience for our students through high-quality teaching from our world-class faculty, as well as relevant hands-on learning opportunities.

At the heart of our Eyes High strategic direction, our efforts have guided the development of the Energy Research Strategy and International Strategy. In 2013, the University of Calgary released the Energy Research Strategy, outlining our institutional approach to engage with energy sector challenges, improve engagement with external stakeholders, and focus our efforts to maximize opportunities and impact. The international strategy — Becoming a Global Intellectual Hub — aims to attract outstanding students and scholars from around the world, and promote diversity of thought and culture with the commitment to become a source for objective information, expertise and collaboration across the world. Support for the Faculty of Law’s Inspiring Energy.Skills.Excellence campaign will help the university achieve these goals by providing valuable funding and resources to some of the country’s top faculty members and researchers in the field of natural resources, energy and environmental law.

With your support and involvement, this $20 million campaign will build a top law school, and a university that will be ranked among the best in North America. Together we are building and laying the groundwork for an extremely promising future.

Sincerely,

Elizabeth Cannon President and Vice-Chancellor University of Calgary

MESSAGE FROM THE DEAN

The Faculty of Law is blessed with attributes that make us the envy of other Canadian law schools. Established in 1976 and grounded in the culture of one of North America’s most entrepreneurial cities, we have a youthful vitality and the seasoned experience to place us at the forefront of innovation in Canadian legal education. We are privileged to be part of a great university, in a great city.

As the University of Calgary approaches its 50th anniversary (and the law school’s 40th), we need to continue to build on our strengths. Our ambitious $20 million fundraising goal will inspire energy, skills and excellence in our students, faculty, staff and alumni, and will result in the Faculty of Law becoming:

• The global destination for the study of natural resources, energy and environmental law;

• The Canadian leader in lawyering skills development and;

• Western Canada’s standard of excellence for Juris Doctor programs.

The Faculty of Law succeeds because we connect the teaching and research excellence of the brightest legal scholars with community leaders and innovators.

The landscape of legal education is changing rapidly — from the development of new tools and technologies that increase access to justice, to the need for lawyers to have a strong business acumen. The Faculty of Law wants to be the leader in educating students in this new reality.

Our Inspiring Energy.Skills.Excellence campaign gives you, our forward-thinking alumni, legal professionals, community leaders and business visionaries, the opportunity to join us in ensuring our law school exemplifies energy, skills and excellence for generations to come.

Semper sursum!

Sincerely,

Ian Holloway, QC Dean, Faculty of Law University of Calgary

UCalgary Law succeeds because we connect the teaching and research excellence of the brightest legal scholars with you, community leaders and innovators.– Ian Holloway, Dean, Faculty of Law, University of Calgary

MESSAGE FROM THE CO-CHAIRS

Our world — increasingly interconnected across borders, industries, technologies and cultures — moves ever faster. It needs lawyers who are well educated and intellectually agile, lawyers who are confident and capable of shaping the legal profession in ways that serve people and advance society. The Faculty of Law’s program produces graduates who answer that call by bringing extensive learning and energetic innovation to their work and society. Through its program of continuing legal education, the Faculty of Law also provides leading edge opportunities for further knowledge and competency development for practicing lawyers.

As the foundation for civil society, the law and its application must reflect the increasingly complex world around us, and is, more than ever, of critical importance to ensuring that interests are balanced and opportunities for prosperity are realized. The evolving expectations from all stakeholders in Canada’s legal community — especially in the areas of energy and the environment — demand that different tools and new ways of thinking and problem solving are core competencies of the legal profession. The Faculty of Law has proven it’s uniquely capable to give its graduates those competencies.

Competition among Canadian law schools is fierce. The opportunity for the Faculty of Law to secure new resources, top students and illustrious faculty has never been better. We must seize this moment to move our school forward, and create significant impact throughout our community and beyond. Thanks to our generous donors, our Inspiring Energy.Skills.Excellence campaign is off to a great start. But there is still much work to do.

Sincerely,

Kerry Dyte, QC Eric Miller Executive Vice President, Senior Vice President & Chief Legal Officer General Counsel & Corporate Secretary Agrium Inc. Cenovus Energy Inc.

KERRY DYTE

ERIC MILLER

Jennifer Koshan — LLB ‘88 Professor, Faculty of Law

University of Calgary

Jennifer Koshan wins CALT award

In 2013, Professor Jennifer Koshan — LLB’88 — was awarded the Canadian Association of Law Teachers (CALT) Prize for Academic Excellence, honouring her for exceptional contributions to research and law teaching. Jennifer works hard to bring her research and her work with non-governmental organizations into the classroom to give students experience working with real world legal issues.

Jennifer is the embodiment of the very best of the UCalgary Law spirit. She is passionate about her beliefs, and she is not afraid to challenge students — just as she challenges all of us who work with her — to bring out the best in everyone.– Ian Holloway, Dean, Faculty of Law, University of Calgary

WHY UCALGARY LAW

• The world’s leading law school in the knowledge of, and influence over, the legal aspects of the energy economy

• Home to the International Energy Lawyers Program, in partnership with the University of Houston Law Center

• Home to Canada’s only Master of Laws in Natural Resources, Energy and Environmental Law

• Home of the Canadian Institute of Resources Law (CIRL), the leading national centre of expertise on legal and policy issues related to Canada’s natural resources

• Pioneers of legal competency training through the Excellence in Lawyering program

• Leaders in executive training and professional development with the Cenovus Continuing Legal Education program

• Uniquely connected with the energy industry and responsive to the growing needs of this growing legal practice

• Among North America’s most modern physical facilities, providing researchers and students with an environment in which to work and study that is second to none

• A proud faculty of the University of Calgary, which sets bold and ambitious goals and understands that enduring links with the community are key to achieving them

Assentio Mentium program

Established in 2012, the Faculty of Law’s Assentio Mentium program gives law students, faculty, alumni, law firms and members of the legal and business communities a place to discuss current legal issues and expand their networks. A series of events throughout the academic year allows members to hear presentations on current legal issues from faculty members and prominent legal leaders in Calgary and from across Canada.

Assentio Mentium offers a great opportunity for the law school to reach out to the legal community. Getting access to the specialization of the professors is excellent.– Assentio Mentium member

THE CAMPAIGN FOR UCALGARY LAW

Like the city it serves, the Faculty of Law aims to lead, not follow. Our community partnerships, as well as our direct link to Calgary’s business and legal community, have driven us to success that was unimaginable when our school was established in 1976. WE ARE CALGARY’S LAW SCHOOL.

But standing still is not an option. We need our donors — our alumni, friends and community leaders — to invest in our continued growth in energy, skills and excellence.

UNAC internship

Led by alumna Linda Taylor — LLB’79 — chief legal secretary at the UN headquarters in New York, the United Nations Association Canada (UNAC) internship program is unique to the University of Calgary and gives law students the opportunity to work at the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in South-East Asia. Students assist the office with research and publications, and gain an understanding of the legal issues of the region.

Interning with UNODC was a great life experience and has allowed me to build my networks in international law, which has always been a passion of mine.– Emma Hamilton, JD student, First participant in the UNAC internship program

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Scott Cochlan General Committee Member

Scott Cochlan – LLB’91 Partner Torys LLP

In 2013, Torys LLP became one of the first law firms to take an early leadership role in the Inspiring Energy.Skills.Excellence campaign and the first firm to coordinate an alumni giving initiative through a gift of $311,250 to the Faculty of Law’s new Torys LLP Excellence in Business Skills for Lawyers program. Program participants learn from leading professionals in both law and business, providing students with the skills and knowledge needed to excel in Calgary, North America’s most dynamic legal market and the heart of Canada’s energy economy.

Robert Engbloom, QC Deputy Chair & Senior Partner Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP

In October 2013, Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP made the largest firm donation to the Inspiring Energy.Skills.Excellence campaign, investing $750,000 in the education of future energy lawyers. The gift will allow the Faculty of Law to expand its offerings in energy law curriculum and opportunities, including the Norton Rose Fulbright Eminent Speakers Course in Energy Law, two energy internships, and 20 international studentships.

Robert Rooney Executive Vice President, Legal & General Counsel Talisman Energy Inc.

Both Enbridge Inc. and Talisman Energy Inc. have shown their commitment to the legal aspects of Canada’s energy market by joining the consortium to develop a Chair in Energy Law and Regulation at the law school. The chair holder will engage in a program of research that will embrace economic, physical and lifecycle regulation of energy systems and networks, and will help strengthen the relationship between industry and the regulatory sector by educating on the developing legal framework.

Alan Jochelson Steering Committee Member

CAMPAIGN PRIORITIES

ENERGY: The global destination for the study of Natural Resources, Energy and Environmental Law

Wise resource development requires a depth of knowledge of industry, the environment, people, and the ever-changing legal and policy frameworks in which they operate. With our specialization in Natural Resources, Energy and Environmental Law, the Faculty of Law is uniquely positioned to provide much-needed research and policy expertise, and to develop graduates who are adept at navigating such complexity. With donor support, the Faculty of Law will strengthen its global leadership and, in turn, Canada’s energy sector, by becoming known as the global destination for energy law.

Donor support will allow us to build capacity in the fields of natural resources, energy and environmental law by creating new learning opportunities for students, expanding our depth of in the area, increasing our graduate programming and deepening our international connection by working with and learning from world leaders in the area.

With your support, we have established the International Energy Lawyers program, a joint JD program with the University of Houston Law Center, and our first Nexen scholar completed the Calgary portion of the program in May 2014. We have hired several new faculty members in our areas of specialization, including experts in North American environmental and energy regulation, water and natural resource law and policy, and law and policy governing the extractive industries. Our new Nexen Energy Professorship gives students the opportunity to learn from Professor Barry Barton, one of the world’s leading scholars on energy regulation, mining law and environmental law.

Alan O’Brien Senior Vice President, General Counsel & Secretary Nexen Energy ULC

Nexen Energy ULC’s dedication to student success in the international energy arena was demonstrated by a $300,000 gift to the campaign in 2012. To support students in the then-newly established International Energy Lawyers program, Nexen committed to provide two International Energy Law Scholarships to students in the IELP each year. Additionally, their support of the Nexen Visiting Professorship in Natural Resources, Energy and Environmental Law allows the Faculty of Law to bring in leading scholars from around the world to inspire and challenge our students to think about these areas of the law in new ways.

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SKILLS: The Canadian leader in lawyering skills development

The Faculty of Law’s Excellence in Lawyering program is setting the Canadian standard for legal competency training and advancing our goal of being recognized as the preeminent Juris Doctor program in Western Canada. Donors to the Inspiring Energy.Skills.Excellence campaign will ensure students learn from professors, judges, practicing lawyers and leading experts in the field. Real-world experience in core competencies is the secret of success behind a JD from the Faculty of Law. Our chairs and professorships, visiting speakers and scholars, and other innovative programs are designed to strengthen practical competencies in students, including legal ethics, dispute resolution and advocacy, client interviewing skills, legal research and writing, mooting and debating, and business skills.

Donor support will strengthen our Excellence in Lawyering program, which imparts the competencies that make great lawyers. Our innovative Torys LLP Excellence in Business Skills for Lawyers program, business etiquette dinner and various clinical opportunities give our students the knowledge and practical experience needed to succeed in a real-world legal setting, and give our students the edge when applying for summer positions, internships and articling positions.

Craig Saloff — BComm’85 Vice President, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary Total E&P Canada Ltd.

The Total E&P Canada Ltd. Visiting Speakers in Law program was established in 2012 allowing the law school to bring in such pre-eminent speakers as Judge Juan Guzman, access to justice advocate Melina Buckley, columnist Andrew Coyne, and Jared Genser, the founder of Freedom Now. The program allows the Faculty of Law to connect with the community by providing enlightening and thought-provoking lectures on current events and issues, from speakers from across North America and around the world.

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Maureen Killoran Steering Committee Member

Maureen Killoran — LLB’94 Calgary Managing Partner Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP

Under the leadership of their managing partner, alumna and campaign cabinet member Maureen Killoran, Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP have contributed a combination of personal gifts and matching dollars from the firm for a gift of $500,000. A generous donor to the Faculty of Law over the past decade, this is the firm’s largest gift to date. Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt also has many dedicated lawyers acting as sessional instructors for our course, providing their knowledge and expertise to our students.

Kerry Dyte, QC Executive Vice President, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary Cenovus Energy Inc.

To help students during unexpected events, such as illness or family emergencies, the Kerry Dyte QC Student Assistance Fund was established in early 2013 with a $100,000 gift to the law school to provide students with access to emergency funding. Students have access to the fund upon demonstration of financial need, such as travel expenses for family illness or bereavement, tuition support or medical and dental expenses.

C. Perry Spitznagel, QC Vice Chair & Calgary Managing Partner Bennett Jones LLP

Bennett Jones LLP re-confirmed its commitment to the Faculty of Law in the spring of 2013 with a gift of $600,000 to name the Bennett Jones Lecture Theatre in Murray Fraser Hall. The gift established Bennett Jones as the largest donor to the Faculty of Law to date, contributing more than $2 million over the past 15 years. Their generosity extends to the Bennett Jones Health Moot, scholarships and the Bennett Jones Law Library.

Nickie Vlavianos — LLM ‘00 Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law

University of Calgary

Doug Mills — BSc’78, LLB’83 Partner Burnet Duckworth & Palmer LLP

The Class of 1983 had a special bond, creating friendships that have lasted for more than 30 years. Led by Doug Mills, the Class of 1983 raised $30,000 to establish a scholarship for a third-year JD student who exemplifies the selfless attitude and promotes the camaraderie and class spirit that was so prevalent in the Class of 1983. This is the first and largest endowed scholarship made by a Faculty of Law graduating class consisting of gifts from 20 individuals from the Class of 1983.

Sean Smyth — LLB’94 Regional Manager Partner, Alberta Litigation Partner McCarthy Tétrault LLP

The McCarthy Tétrault LLP Leadership Fund is enhancing the teaching and learning capacity at the Faculty of Law through their partnership in the consortium to establish a Chair in Energy Law and Regulation at the law school. Additionally, the firm has re-established the McCarthy Tétrault LLP Leadership Awards, which were first established in 2005, to honour JD students who demonstrate academic excellence and leadership qualities.

EXCELLENCE: Western Canada’s standard of excellence for Juris Doctor programs

Thinking and acting with a global mindset is a core value at the Faculty of Law and the University of Calgary. Nurturing this mindset in our students requires moving them beyond the classroom and into the international legal community. Scholarships, awards and other forms of student support ensure law school is accessible to the most promising students, and that they are supported in reaching their full potential. Gifts to the Inspiring Energy.Skills.Excellence campaign will allow for the development of more robust internship options so students can be placed in their preferred practice areas, industries or companies. Donors will also make it possible for students to learn from top scholars from around the world through an eminent visitors program.

Donors will help build a program of student support which will ensure the Faculty of Law continues to attract the best student minds and provide them with rich learning experiences in the classroom, in local legal and business communities, and in the international arena. Our Total E&P Canada Ltd. Visiting Speakers in Law program allows students, faculty, staff, alumni and members of Calgary’s legal community to hear from legal experts from around the world. Services offered by our Career & Professional Development Office help students develop the holistic and leadership skills required to be successful in the legal industry, no matter which career path they choose.

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CAMPAIGN CABINET

HONORARY CO-CHAIR

Rick George Partner Novo Investment Group

SENIOR VOLUNTEER ADVISOR

Brian Felesky, CM, QC

CO-CHAIRS

Kerry Dyte, QC Executive Vice President, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary Cenovus Energy Inc.

Eric Miller — BComm ‘85 Senior Vice President & Chief Legal Officer Agrium Inc.

STEERING COMMITTEE

Robert Engbloom, QC Deputy Chair & Senior Partner Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP

Alan Jochelson — BA’82, JD’86 Partner Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP

Maureen Killoran — LLB’94 Calgary Managing Partner Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP

Ken Mills — BA’80 Calgary Managing Partner Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

The Honourable D. Blair Nixon, QC, FCA, ICD.D — LLB’87 Justice Court of Queen’s Bench, Calgary

C. Perry Spitznagel, QC Vice Chair & Calgary Managing Partner Bennett Jones LLP

Jim Palmer, CM, AOE, QC

Honorary Co-Chair

On August 27, 2013, one of our honorary co-chairs and long-time supporter of the Faculty of Law, Jim Palmer, passed away. Jim was the chair emeritus of the law firm Burnet, Duckworth & Palmer LLP, and had deep ties not only across Canada, but also to the university in the city he called home. He was chancellor of the University of Calgary from 1986 to 1990, and received an honorary degree in 1993 in acknowledgement of his service to our university and his inspirational life achievements.

In 2013, Burnet, Duckworth & Palmer LLP made a gift of $525,000 to establish the Burnet, Duckworth & Palmer LLP Renewable Entrance Scholarship, a $20,000 award given to a first-year JD student demonstrating community leadership and academic excellence. This scholarship is the largest of its kind in Canada.

REGIONAL COMMITTEE

Richard Bennett — LLB’82 Tax Partner Borden Ladner Gervais LLP (Vancouver)

Debra Finlay — LLB’92 Partner McCarthy Tétrault LLP (Vancouver)

Terra Nicolay — LLM’11 Senior Counsel Chevron Upstream & Gas (Houston)

Carol D. Pennycook — JD’80 Partner Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP (Toronto)

GENERAL COMMITTEE

Joanne Alexander Vice President, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary Precision Drilling Corp.

Scott Cochlan — LLB’91 Partner Torys LLP

Paul Colborne — LLB’86 President & Chief Executive Officer Surge Energy Inc.

William DeJong, QC — BA’80 Partner Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP

David Holub Assistant General Counsel Apache Canada Ltd.

John Kousinioris Chief Legal & Compliance Officer TransAlta

Doug Mills — BSc’78, LLB’83 Partner Burnet Duckworth & Palmer LLP

Alan O’Brien Senior Vice President, General Counsel & Secretary Nexen Energy ULC

David T. Robottom, QC Executive Vice President & Chief Legal Officer Enbridge Inc.

Robert Rooney Executive Vice President, Legal & General Counsel Talisman Energy Inc.

Craig Saloff — BComm’85 Vice President, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary Total E&P Canada Ltd.

Sean Smyth — LLB’94 Regional Manager Partner, Alberta Litigation Partner McCarthy Tétrault LLP

FACULTY OF LAW

Ian Holloway, QC Professor and Dean, Faculty of Law University of Calgary

Karen E. Hill-Chow, MA, CFRE Director of Development, Faculty of Law University of Calgary

WAYS TO GIVE

Cash or equivalents: Give one time, pledge over five years, or commit to a monthly gift.

Wills and bequests: Leave a lasting legacy and contribute to a gift greater than may have been possible during your lifetime.

Charitable trusts: Enjoy tax benefits today for assets donated to the Faculty of Law in your will, through residual or remainder trusts.

Shares: Give publicly listed securities, including stocks, bonds, bills and mutual funds. Transfer the shares in a whole and be exempt from tax on capital gains realized as a result of your charitable gift.

Life insurance: Leave a substantial legacy and enjoy and immediate tax advantage.

Property: Give a gift-in-kind and receive a tax receipt for the fair market value of your gift. You may also be eligible to offset or eliminate taxable capital gains on appreciated assets by choosing to receive a lower-value tax receipt.

RRSPs, RRIFs and pension assets: Leave all or a portion of the funds remaining in your RRSP or RRIF to the Faculty of Law.

Naming opportunities: Remind future generations what the Faculty of Law has meant to you by funding a program, chair, professorship, award or space in your name, or in someone’s honour.

Ian Holloway, QC Dean Faculty of Law University of Calgary

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Karen E. Hill-Chow, MA, CFRE Director of Development Faculty of Law University of Calgary

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