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“Lickety-Split” Service

Participant: Ryan Adams, Mark Malinowski, Mike Malinowski, and Ted Tucker, Brock University
Business name: Elm Solution
Concept: an innovative line of new wireless products that will revolutionize the way chain restaurants operate. Using a wireless handheld device called the Cathy System servers will easily input and transmit customer's orders instantly from the tableside to the kitchen. Plus the System will manage inventory, improve corporate communications, and give managers better insight to their customers' palette and overall operations. More Finalists >

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The National Nicol Award is honored to announce that David Scott, QC, will be acting as this year's Master of Ceremonies.

The National Nicol Award is honored to announce that David Scott, QC, will be acting as this year's Master of Ceremonies.

David Scott is Co-Chairperson of the National Law Firm of Borden Ladner Gervais, and Partner in the Ottawa Office. David received a Bachelor of Arts from Loyola College ( University of Montréal ) as well as a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Ottawa . He was called to the Bar of the Province of Ontario in 1962 and is certified by the Law Society of Upper Canada as a Specialist in Civil Litigation. He was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1976. In 2001, he received an Honorary Doctorate of Laws from both the Law Society of Upper Canada and the University of Ottawa . David is a member of the Ottawa General Litigation Professional Group.

Professional and Community Activities

  • Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, 1984. Ontario Provincial Chair for the College, 1993-1994. Regent, 1996, Secretary, 2000, President Elect, 2002, President, 2003. 
  • Bencher, Law Society of Upper Canada, elected 1991, re-elected 1995.
  • Appointed by the Minister of Justice as the Chair of the Triennial Review Commission established under the Judges Act of Canada, 1996.
  • Awarded The Advocates' Society Medal in 1999.
  • Lecturer: University of Ottawa Law School .
  • First Director of the Administrative Law and Charter of Rights section of the Law Society of Upper Canada Bar Admissions Course - Ottawa .
  • Representative of Chief Justice of Ontario 's Committee of Bench and Bar.
  • Milvain Chair in Advocacy, University of Calgary Law School , 1988.
  • Past-president of the County of Carleton Law Association .
  • Past-member of the Board of Governors of Carleton University.
  • Fellow of the Intellectual Property Institute of Canada (IPIC).
  • Acted as a Director of numerous social and philanthropic organizations, including the United Way, John Howard Society, CARE Canada and Ottawa General Hospital. He is presently the Chairman of the Board of the Canadian Stroke Network, a neuroscience research organization.
  • Has published extensively on a variety of legal topics.
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