At the CMLA’s AGM held on June 13, 2019, Shelley Chapelski, partner at Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP in Vancouver, was elected the President of the organization. She is just the second woman to hold this position during the 68-year history of the CMLA (the other person being Madame Justice Johanne Gauthier of the Federal Court of Appeal of Canada). Paul Harquail, a partner with Stewart McKelvey in Saint John, N.B., was elected as the National Vice President.