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2025 Annual General Meeting & Dinner
Our Annual General Meeting will take place on Thursday, November 6th, 2025 at 6:30 p.m. at the Ontario Bar Association, located at 20 Toronto Street, Toronto, Ontario.

The AGM will include dinner, a CPD presentation by member Kostas Renieris on Understanding and Navigating Capacity Issues in Legal Practice (accreditation pending) and our formal meeting agenda  – including elections*. Stay tuned for agenda and details.

This year (2025) is the 35th anniversary year for the HCLA! We encourage all members to attend our AGM to celebrate this incredible landmark with us and take this opportunity to reconnect with fellow HCLA members.

Tickets are $75 for lawyers and judges, $55 for law students. Tickets can be purchased here: https://www.zeffy.com/en-CA/ticketing/annual-general-meeting-and-dinner 
*Membership must be in good standing to vote at the AGM.

We look forward to celebrating 35 years of the HCLA with you!
2025 Annual General Meeting & Dinner
HCLA Ottawa Meet-Up: September 26, 2025!
 
The HCLA is proud to host a long-overdue meet-up for members and prospective members in Ottawa on Friday, September 26, 2025, at SPIN Kitchen & Bar. We look forward to catching up with friends and colleagues, old and new! Join us for a drink, snacks, and great company! 
 
This event is free for members, $20 for lawyer non-members and $10 for student non-members.
Please RSVP in advance as tickets will not be available at the door. To RSVP or purchase a ticket, please email hcla.information@gmail.com. 
 
See you in September! 
HCLA Ottawa Meet-Up

Kick off Summer 2025 with us!

The Hellenic Canadian Law Association (HCLA) and the Hellenic Canadian Board of Trade (HCBT) are excited to invite you to our 2025 Summer Kick-Off.

📍 MYTH, 522 King St West, Toronto
📅 June 19, 2025 at 6:00 PM ET
Join us for an evening of connection, conversation, and community.

🎟️ Free for HCBT & HCLA members ($25 for non-members)

To register:

• HCBT members: email events@hcbt.com

• HCLA members: email HCLA.information@gmail.com

• Non-members: visit the HCBT website to purchase your ticket

Let’s celebrate the start of summer together. We look forward to seeing you there! ☀️

2025 Summer Kick-Off with the Hellenic Canadian Board of Trade

The Hellenic Canadian Lawyers’ Association is hosting the third annual Hellenic Women’s Networking Luncheon on Saturday, October 4, 2025 at the Centennial College Event Centre in Toronto, Ontario.

This unique event seeks to bring together women of Hellenic heritage across all professions and at all stages of their career and/or education, to build their network and make lasting connections! Make new connections and renew friendships at this one-of-a-kind event.

This event will feature a presentation by the incredible Maria Mitousis. Hear about Maria’s story, and her inspiring legal career, and philanthropy. This program contains 45 minutes of Professionalism content (accredited by the Law Society of Ontario).

 

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AGENDA:
10:30am-11:30am – Registration
11:30am: Lunch buffet begings
12:15pm: Welcome Remarks, Keynote speaker Maria Mitousis
1:30pm: Raffle and Goodbyes!
3:00pm: Networking ends
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THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS!
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Silver Sponsor: Biochem Environmental Solutions
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Bronse Sponsor: Maria-Christina Spingos, Spingos Law
                               Transcrips Ontario
                               Dina Constantinou Desjardins Insurance Agent
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Patron Sponsors:  ALF LLP
                                 Matrona Law PC
                                PB Total Wealth Advisory and Consulting
                                Treegrove Investment Management Inc.
Hellenic Women’s Networking Luncheon

Join us at Parcel Pizza for a night of networking, new friends, and old friends!

Open to former, current, and prospective members of the HCLA. Network with fellow lawyers and law students of Hellenic descent and learn more about the work of the HCLA.

The HCLA is happy to cover one beverage per guest, as well as food to share!

Please RSVP to agapim@gmail.com to reserve your space.

HCLA Winnipeg Meet-Up
Dear Members,
 
We are pleased to welcome all members to our New Year’s Cheer event, which is taking place on Friday, January 24, 2025! Following tradition, this event will be held at La Birroteca, in the lower level of Eataly Toronto, located in the Manulife Building at 55 Bloor St West (Bay Street and Bloor) from 6:30 pm-9:00 pm.


Eataly is accessible by TTC from both Bay Station and Bloor-Yonge Station. Parking is also available within the Manulife Building.

The HCLA will provide appetizers, vasilopita, and one (1) drink for each guest.

Please RSVP as soon as possible to Paola Beci, Social Director, at paola@alfllp.ca to secure your spot!

We look forward to celebrating 2025 with you!

New Year Cheer 20252024 HCLA Board Vision Meeting, Thank You Dinner

On Saturday, February 22, 2025 for the 24th Hellenic Professionals’ Gala, brought to you by the Hellenic Canadian Lawyers’ Association, the Asclepius Dental Society, and the Hippocrates Hellenic Canadian Medical Association, was held at the Liberty Grant Entertainment Complext. We enjoyed a night of fantastic night of dancing, food, culture, and raising money to support scholarships for Canadian law, dental, and medical students of Hellenic descent.

 

2025 Hellenic Professionals Gala

The HCLA, in collaboration with the Canadian Italian Advocates Association (CIAO), Portuguese Canadian Lawyers Association (PCLA) and the Serbian-Canadian Professionals in Law (USPIL) are pleased to present the following seminar:

Unlocking AI’s Potential for your Law Firm (CPD)

Agenda:

Topic: Avoiding fraud claims in the new AI legal landscape

Speaker: Raymond G. Leclair, LawPro

(2 hours professionalism)

Topic: Impacts of AI in various activities in the legal industry, how AI works and what lawyers should look for while adopting AI in their practice

Speaker: Ankit Sharma, Leap Legal Software

(1 hour substantive)

Eligible for $50 LawPro credit

Location:

Hilton Toronto Airport Hotel & Suites

Dundas Conference Room

5875 Airport Road, Mississauga, Ontario L4V 1N1

In-person only

Cost:

$85 for members of HCLA, CIAO, PCLA, USPIL

$100 for non-members

Includes: Dinner, Coffee and Dessert

Registration:

To register visit: www.ciaocanada.com

Registration deadline: October 2, 2024

2024 CPD Unlocking AI Potential for Your Law Firm

TICKETS NOW AVAILABLE!

To purchase tickets, click here.

We are grateful to our members for their support and commitment to our association.  We hope you can join us as we begin our 35th anniversary celebrations.

For this year’s CPD event, we are delighted to present:

Advancement and Transition: Positioning for Professional Success with panelists

Jeanie Theoharis, K.C., Former Associate Chair, Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario

Eleni Damianakis, Vice-President, Associate General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, Canadian Tire Corporation

Maria Kotsopoulos, Partner, Blaney McMurtry LLP

Moderated by Niki Kanavas, Matrona Law, HCLA Director

Vantage Venues

150 King Street West, 27th Floor, Toronto

6:00pm – Welcome Reception

7:00pm – President’s Dinner / Professional Development

8:00pm – Annual General Meeting

Members $130 / Student Members $110

We look forward to seeing you!