CCVS Board
CCVS benefits from a Board and Advisory Committee comprised of veteran court reporters, teachers, and legal-industry professionals.
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Kimberley Stewart After spending years as a contract court reporter, Kimberley launched her own court reporting firm, ASAP Reporting Services, in April of 1995. Through her work with ASAP, Kimberley came to realize that the shortage of Realtime reporters affected not only her business' continued evolvement, but that the deficit was inciting a crisis within the reporting and captioning industries nationwide. She conceived of CCVS as a means of addressing that deficit in order to fortify the landscape of the court reporting industry and ensure the continuing success of the profession. Kimberley is an expert in her field who has worked on numerous high-profile cases all over the world and continues, through ASAP, to work with the biggest names in the legal industry. |
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D'Arcy McPherson, CSR, RDR, CRR, CBC, CCP, CRI D'Arcy graduated with a Diploma in Court Reporting from Vancouver Community College in 1988. His experience has included working as an Official, Freelance, CART, Broadcast Captioning and Parliamentary Reporter in jurisdictions within Canada and overseas. In 1996, D'Arcy accepted a position at the Senate of Canada as a Parliamentary Reporter. At present, D'Arcy is the Assistant Managing Editor of Debates Services at the Senate. |
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Nathalie Fisher ASAP General Manager Nathalie Fisher has over 10 years of experience in the Court Reporting industry. Currently working as Vice President of ASAP Reporting Services Inc., Nathalie focuses her attention on the success of ASAP through employee development and engagement, and actively fostering and pursuing business opportunities in both the private and public sector that provide ASAP's reporters with career growth. Nathalie also has many years of experience in accounting and finance in the high tech industry, making her an invaluable asset to the management of ASAP. |
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Justice Lucien Beaulieu Justice Beaulieu has had a long and distinguished judicial career. Called to the Ontario Bar in 1968, he was the Assistant Crown Attorney in Toronto until 1971, the Provincial Director of Appeals for the Ontario Legal Aid Plan until 1973 and was appointed to the Ontario Court of Appeals (Family Division) following that. He has served as a Senior Judge in York, Peel and York Region and was appointed to the (now) Superior Court of Justice in 1993. Justice Beaulieu has also been a wonderful contributor to a variety of charity and community organizations over the years, including being a member of the Board of Directors for Big Brothers of Canada for a full ten years and a member of the Board of Directors for Covenant House, Toronto, between 1995 and 2000. |
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Teresa Forbes , CRR, RMR, CSR Teresa Forbes has been in the court reporting business for the past thirty years. She worked for over thirteen years at the Superior Court in Toronto, ON and seventeen years in the freelance industry. Teresa has worked all over Canada on high-profile corporate litigation cases and her work has also taken her overseas to work at the International Criminal Tribunal in The Hague, covering war crimes in relation to Slobodan Milosevic and the individuals who reported to him. |
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Adrienne Hunter Adrienne Hunter is a human resources professional with over 17 years experience in staffing, human resources management and training. She currently works with one of the departments of the Canadian Federal Government on talent management initiatives; identifying skill gaps and developing strategies to grow the skills of the executive community. Prior to this, she spent many years at both Gowling, Lafleur Henderson LLP and ASAP Reporting Services, managing administration and human resource functions. Through her experience, Adrienne is able to provide the CCVS Board with a well-rounded perspective on human resource challenges currently facing the industry and the market as a whole. |
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Sharon Giraud, MBA Sharon has worked in the Legal Services industry since 1989. She's worked with two of Canada's largest court reporting firms, focusing on direction and management specializing in state-of-the-art court reporting technology and videoconferencing. She has traveled across Canada on three Royal Commissions and spent almost two years working in Bermuda with the Supreme Court. She most recently participated as an expert for the Court Reporting Task Force for the Ontario government. Sharon is currently an International Sales and Business Development Executive with Commonwealth Legal, Canada's largest global evidence management solutions company. She also volunteers time with Big Sisters, the Maltese Canadian Professional Business Association, Art with Heart for the Casey House Foundation, and has participated on the George Brown Advisory Committee for court reporting. Finally, Sharon is a Vanguard with the Canadian Women's Foundation. |
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Denise Agard, CSR(A) Denise C. Agard hails from Manchester, England. She is a graduate of the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology and George Brown College, and continues her education by taking courses through the NCRA (National Court Reporters' Association) and Stenograph University. Denise is a member of the Chartered Shorthand Reporters Association of Ontario in good standing, and has also held the offices of Treasurer, Vice-president and President (2004-2006) in the CSRAO. She holds memberships with the Alberta Shorthand Reporters Association (ASRA) and the NCRA. Her reporting career spans over fourteen years, touching all facets in the court reporting field. She currently carts and captions in North America. |
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Ron Dimock, LLP Ron is a founding partner of Dimock Stratton LLP, one of Canada's top IP firms. Certified by the Law Society of Upper Canada as a Specialist in Civil Litigation and IP law, he is listed by LEXPERT as one of the "Most Frequently Recommended" IP practitioners in Canada and was recently named the leading patent lawyer in Canada in the MIP Guide to the World's Leading Patent Law Experts. He has been counsel in more than 40 patent, trade-mark and copyright trials in the Federal Court and in over 30 appeals in the Supreme Court of Canada and Federal and Ontario Courts of Appeal. Ron teaches graduate level Remedies in Intellectual Property at York University, has taught Patents at Queen's University and Copyright at the Advanced Course on Copyright co-sponsored by McGill University and IPIC. He serves on INTA's Panel of Neutrals for Canada, is a Mediator with IPIC and is a member of the LSUC, CBA, ABA, Advocates' Society, AIPLA and ACA. |
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Lisa Barrett , CRR, RPR, CSR Realtime Court Reporter Lisa Barrett has been in the court reporting profession for the past 29 years. Her career began in the Superior Court in Toronto, where she worked for 11 years before leaving that position to raise her children in the country. Since that time Lisa has worked in Bradford, Newmarket and Barrie. She covered her first trial using real-time reporting in 1995 when she reported the longest trial in the history of the Dominion of Canada with a jury - a first degree murder case - that spanned a full two years. Lisa opened her own reporting firm (Barrett Gunn Court Reporters) in 1995 in Newmarket, but left that firm in July of 2007 to do more travel and continue reporting herself. Lisa's career has taken her to a variety of exciting destinations including Bermuda, Singapore, Jakarta and Germany. |
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Pamela Fontaine-Peters Certified Trainer, Consultant, Paralegal Pamela Fontaine-Peters is a certified software trainer, ediscovery consultant and paralegal with almost 20 years experience in the legal industry. Pam's industry experience as a Litigation Technology Manager for a national law firm and a strong technical aptitude complements her vision for the use of litigation technologies in the legal market. Through her company, Micrapol Associates Ltd., Pam provides consulting and best practice advice on litigation support issues ranging from e-Discovery, forensic examinations, litigation preparedness, and leveraging tools throughout the litigation process. Pam is the Director of Women in eDiscovery, a founding member of the Canadian Association of Litigation Support Professions, a member of the Institute of Law Clerks and the Canadian Association of Paralegals. |
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Scott M. Heimberg, LLP Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP Scott M. Heimberg is a Partner in the Washington, D.C. office of the international law firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP where he heads the Government Contracts practice group. He represents companies in government procurement and domestic and international contracts. Mr. Heimberg's experience includes federal contract formation, administration and contract disputes litigation, including litigation of construction claims at the Boards of Contract Appeals and the Court of Federal Claims. Mr. Heimberg also counsels clients on issues of fraud, waste and abuse, including suspension and debarment matters. He recently successfully defended a Fortune 500 technology company against a Civil False Claims Act action seeking $100 million in damages and has successfully represented several companies in False Claims Act matters involving government contracts and health care issues. Prior to joining Akin Gump, Mr. Heimberg was an attorney-advisor to the Honorable E.P. Snyder, chief administrative judge, Board of Contract Appeals, U.S. Department of Transportation, from 1985 to 1987. Mr. Heimberg received his B.A. in 1981 from Franklin and Marshall College and his J.D. with honors in 1984 from the George Washington University, where he was a member of the George Washington Journal of International Law and Economics. He is a member of the District of Columbia and Maryland Bars, the American Bar Association's Section on Public Contract Law and the Section's Committee on Privatization and Outsourcing, the District of Columbia Bar Association, the Board of Contract Appeals Bar Association and the National Contracts Management Association. He is admitted to practice before the U.S. Court of Federal Claims and the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. |
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