National GC Network endorses Julia Shin Doi for Law Society of Ontario bencher elections

The National GC Network (NGCN) has endorsed the Good Governance Coalition (GGC) and NGCN president Julia Shin Doi in the 2023 bencher elections for the Law Society of Ontario (LSO).

The NGCN is a non-profit coalition of racialized general counsel and in-house lawyers in Canada. NGCN aims to advance equity, diversity and inclusivity within their organizations and the legal community. Since the GGC reflects and supports the legal profession’s diversity in Ontario, the NGCN expressed strong support for the GGC candidates, including NGCN president Julia Shin Doi, in the upcoming 2023 bencher elections for the LSO.

Doi is a general counsel and secretary of the board of governors of the Toronto Metropolitan University. As an executive group member, she provides legal and governance advice and has operational responsibility for access to information, privacy, records management, and compliance.

Doi is also an adjunct professor at Osgoode Hall Law School and Lincoln Alexander School of Law. She has served as director of the Osgoode Business Clinic, assistant director of the Osgoode LLM in business law, and instructor of Osgoode Professional Development’s commercial legal drafting workshop. She teaches contract drafting to lawyers through the Canadian Corporate Counsel Association. She is an executive in residence for the certified in-house counsel-Canada designation offered by the Canadian Corporate Counsel Association and the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management.

Doi served as past chair and current member of the Canadian Corporate Counsel Association Ontario Chapter (Ontario Bar Association). She co-founded the Roundtable of Diversity Associations, which brings together diverse professional associations and founded the Women’s General Counsel chapter of the Women’s Law Association of Ontario to support senior women in law.  She is also a founding member and executive of Women General Counsel Canada, which unites senior women leaders nationally. In 2018, Doi established the General Counsel Group of University Solicitors to share experiences and legal expertise across Canada.

Doi obtained her legal education from Osgoode Hall Law School and was admitted to the Ontario bar in 1994.

The NGCN urges its members and allies to learn more about the GGC candidates and their policy positions and to vote in the bencher elections from April 19 to 23.