The state's chief
judge, Janet DiFiore, named her husband as a
co-chairman of a
panel she created to recommend changes to the state constitution to make the courts more efficient.
McGill Law dean Robert Leckey moderated the
panel of jurists: Jean - François Gaudreault - DesBiens, Dean
of the Faculty
of Law at the Université de Montréal; Shahir Guindi, national
co-chairman of Osler Hoskin & Harcourt LLP; Louise Otis, a civil and commercial mediator and arbitrator and an adjunct professor at McGill's Faculty
of Law and a former
judge on the Quebec Court
of Appeal; Juanita Westmoreland - Traoré, a retired
judge of the Court
of Quebec and a former dean
of the Faculty
of Law at the University
of Windsor; and Kim Thomassin, Executive Vice-President, Legal Affairs and Secretariat for the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec.