Jane Scholes, equity partner at Lerners LLP, receives the Young Alumni Award
Scholes, HBA’15, JD’15, moved from Western’s dual Ivey and Law program to equity partner and has appeared before the Supreme Court of Canada.
Jane Scholes, HBA’15, JD’15, is the 2026 recipient of Western Alumni’s Young Alumni Award. She completed the dual honours business administration and juris doctor program at Ivey and the Faculty of Law, graduating in 2015 on the Dean’s Honour List in both and earning the Law Society of Upper Canada Prize for placing in the top 10 per cent of her class.
After training at Goodmans LLP in Toronto and being called to the Ontario Bar in 2016, she returned to London in 2018 to join Lerners LLP, where she is now an equity partner. Her practice covers disputes in education, health-care litigation and regulation, workplace matters and commercial cases. She has appeared at the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court of Canada and is a certified workplace investigator.
Scholes sits on the board of the Grand Theatre, previously served on the board of 519Pursuit London, and mentors Western students as a guest lecturer, panelist and competition judge.
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