Owen Minns

Contact information

Website: https://minns.ca/owen/
Email: owen@AT@minns.DOT.ca
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Juris Doctor, Law, awarded 2009
Earned mooting prizes: Second Place Team in the 2008 and 2009 national Gale Cup Moots, 1st Place Oralist & 1st Place Team (Goodman & Carr Moot), Distinguished Oralist (Lerners Cup)
International Intellectual Property Program at St Peter’s College, Oxford (Summer, 2007)

Focused on cognitive and experimental psychology, psycholinguistics, and statistics

Discipline Counsel, 2017 – present (Articling Student and Associate Discipline Counsel, 2009 – 2017)

Representing the Law Society fairly and resolutely in regulatory proceedings, before the Law Society Tribunal and in court; assisting other counsel
Examining evidence gathered by investigators through the lens of relevant legislation, common law, and other authorities to develop recommendations for the disposition of regulatory cases in the public interest; managing assigned cases
Conducting thorough legal research, both case-specific and for organizational priorities
Drafting originating processes and other litigation materials (e.g., facta and motion records)
Working with litigants in person or their representatives to reduce the scope of disputes (e.g., drafting and negotiating agreed statements of facts and joint submissions)
Advancing the Law Society’s case in oral hearings; examining witnesses, presenting evidence
Promoting the effective use of information technology by helping to build an electronic library; fostering the use of paperless processes by counsel and other team members

Researched and wrote recommendations and reports for the senior management regarding financial and operational strategy, business modelling, market research
Championed a reassessment of how Air Miles market penetration was measured internally and how it was reported to the public markets and securities regulators
Modelled the impact of changes to an Air Miles offer on a per-collector basis, providing critical insight for contract re-negotiations with a major programme sponsor
Identified and researched a ‘point of pain’ for a group of customers, then leveraged internal relationships to solve the problem, reducing the number of complaints

Managed key activities in the production of millions of collector statement mailings
Provided operational and business process expertise to internal clients
Earned awards, e.g., company-wide ‘Spirit of Loyalty’, two divisional awards from the CIO

Elected by 12000 students to provide executive management (strategic, financial operational) to the university’s primary student government, including its 20 businesses and service programmes (annual revenues then ~$6 million, 400 staff, 1000 volunteers)
Guided middle management: every revenue-generating unit beat its five-year average results
Served as Reserve Director of the Canadian Campus Business Consortium, elected by student governments across Canada representing 300 000 students: investigated new legal models to enable the sharing of profits back to member groups

Provided strategic management of eight businesses; e.g., a campus newspaper, a bookstore
Developed and implemented a new remuneration policy and fiscal management policy in an initially-hostile management environment

Member of Editorial Board; supervised layout and design; adhered to strict deadlines

Reading (e.g., history, mythology, current events, fiction)
Computer games and theory; Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
Photography (open, textural subjects, with vibrant colour and high spatial frequency: see my website)