Stephen is head of the Civil Litigation Group and a senior partner at Victor Vallance Blais. Stephen has acted as lead counsel before the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, the Court of Appeal for Ontario, the Federal Court Trial Division, and the Federal Court of Appeal. Stephen was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 1981. Stephen chaired several boards including the University of Ottawa Heart Institute Foundation, the Canada-Israel Committee, the Canadian Friends of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and the Jewish Federation of Ottawa. He received the Gilbert Greenberg Distinguished Service Award from the Jewish Community of Ottawa, and he was awarded the Governor General’s Sovereign’s Medal for Volunteers and an honorary PhD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2018.
“Whoever saves one life saves the world entire.”
