Dan Abrahams:  

Life As of October 2005: After graduating from Sherwood (1978) and Southmount (1979), I attended Trinity College at the University of Toronto. I attended full-time for a year, travelled in Europe and the Middle East for a year, then finished my B.A. on a part-time basis while working in a stationery store in the Eaton Centre. I graduated from the Faculty of Law at the University of Windsor in 1989, and articled as a Clerk to the Justices of the Ontario Court of Appeal. I was called to the Bar in 1991 and started my career working for the Ontario Legal Aid Plan. From 1994 to 2002, I was Senior Counsel at the Workplace Safety and Insurance Appeals Tribunal in Toronto. In 2002, I became Counsel to the Director of Professional Regulation at the Law Society of Upper Canada. I have also served as Acting Manager of Investigations and as Acting Manager of Client Compensation at the Law Society. I have two wonderful children with Joanna Warden, whom I met at university and married in 1983 and from whom I have been very amicably separated since 2003. Emily, born two days before I started law school in 1986, has just finished her first year at the University of Western Ontario, where she is studying Media, Information and Technoculture. Jacob, born in 1992, is finishing Grade 7 Extended French. Joanna and I still own a house in South Etobicoke, but I live in the High Park / Junction neighbourhood of Toronto with my girlfriend, Charla Pearen. Charla has a degree in Psychology and has worked extensively with autistic and other special needs children. She is currently in the B.Ed. program at the OISE/U.of T. Faculty of Education and hopes to qualify eventually as a special ed teacher at the primary/junior level. I am always eager to hear from Sherwood / Southmount graduates, those who've moved away and those who've stayed closer to the Steel City. My pare...Expand for more