Donald Guthrie is Senior Counsel (Retired) at Cassels Brock. His practice has a particular emphasis on education and health law, administrative and regulatory law, Crown agencies, not-for-profit corporations, charities, wills, estates and trusts. Mr. Guthrie has served as a director of Canadian National Railway Company, C.N. Tower Limited and Ontario Place Corporation, and was recently Chairman of the Toronto Grant Review Team, Ontario Trillium Foundation. In the past, he has served as a member of the Canada Council; as a trustee and vice-chair of the Royal Ontario Museum; and as a member of the Planned Giving Advisory Committee at the University of Toronto. Currently, he is Honorary Solicitor to the Board of Trustees of the University of Toronto Art Centre; a member of the Council of Advisors, solicitor and past director of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research; a director and solicitor for the Canadian Scientific Submersible Facility; and a member of the General Committee of The Leonard Foundation. He is a member of the National Association of College and University Attorneys (NACUA). For more than 20 years, he served as a trustee of the Law Foundation of Ontario. He also served for 12 years as its Chairman. He was awarded the Law Society Medal by The Law Society of Upper Canada in 1995 and the University of Toronto Arbor Award in 1998. Mr. Guthrie has been designated University Counsel Emeritus for the University of Toronto. This is in an unprecedented designation reflecting his contributions to the University of Toronto over the course of some four decades. Some of his work experience includes: · Has acted, since 1972, as general counsel to the University of Toronto. This has included responsibility for various corporate reorganizations, incorporations, amalgamations, asset transfers and separations, as well as advice regarding the University's relationships with the federated universities and colleges and the many affiliated hospitals and institutions. · Served as a member of the Charities Review Committee to advise on the revision of Ontario charities legislation in the mid-1980s. Also served with the Charities Regulations Consulting Group to advise the Public Guardian and Trustee. Mr. Guthrie has been involved in many presentations and seminars including: · Has been an instructor in the Bar Admission Course in real estate and landlord and tenant law. He has also been a special lecturer for The Law Society of Upper Canada. · Is co-founder and past-president of the Canadian Association of University Solicitors (CAUS). He is a frequent speaker at its annual conferences and reports to university officers on developments in Canadian university jurisprudence. · Lectured at the annual conference of the Canadian Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators on Legal Issues: Scholarships, Bequests & Bursaries, in 1995. · Has made numerous presentations on university law including papers on campus police powers at the annual meeting of the International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators; on scholarship trusts to the annual meeting of the Ontario Universities Registrars' Association; and on rules for the evaluation of medical students at the Council of Ontario Faculties of Medicine Workshop on Evaluation and Appeals. · Lectured in 2004 and 2005 on Canadian university law to delegations of university administrators from the People's Republic of China. · Has been a frequent speaker at the annual conferences of the Secretaries of Ontario University Senates and Boards of Governors. Achievements · Martindale-Hubbell, AV Preeminent™ rating Associations · Canadian Bar Association · Ontario Bar Association (Charity and Not-for Profit, Health Law and Trusts and Estates Sections) |