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Growing up in a multicultural diaspora household in Toronto and seeing the struggles and obstacles faced by her parents over the years, Bunisha Samuels is keen to confront the challenges facing racialized communities in Canada. Samuels’s mother is Tamil and immigrated to Canada in the 1980s during the Sri Lanka Civil War and her father is second-generation Canadian of Jamaican descent.
“My parents placed a huge emphasis on education. For me, it was a way to engage in community work and create accessible and informed spaces,” Samuels says. She knew early on that she wanted to pursue an education in law and advocate for diversity and inclusion in all society, and specifically in the legal system.
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Miller Canfield in Detroit has announced that nine associate attorneys have joined the firm in six of its key practice groups: corporate and transactions, employment and labor, energy and environmental, financial institutions, litigation and dispute resolution, and real estate.
Joanna Dreaver has joined the litigation and dispute resolution group in the firm’s Troy office. She comes to the firm after working as a contract attorney at Perdue Law Group in Grand Rapids. In 2015, Dreaver was a summer intern for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit Judge Helene White. She is a graduate of the University of Michigan Law School and earned her bachelor’s degree in philosophy from the University of Michigan.
WINDSOR, ONT. A general contractor has been selected to transform the law facility at the University of Windsor. University of Windsor Faculty of Law Dean Christopher Waters announced EllisDon Corportation and Fortis Construction Group as the successful bidders to lead the Ron W. Ianni law building renovation project Monday. “We look forward to working with them,” Waters said in a news release. “They are mobilizing this month for a January 2021 start to construction.” The contractors selected have worked with the University of Windsor before and are currently the general contractor for the Lancer Centre. There has already been $5.3 million raised toward the project. The school has a fundraising target of $6 million, which it says is still an “achievable goal, despite the pandemic.”