Senator P. Derek Lewis, Q.C.
David C. Day, Q.C.
As of 01 July 2021:
the two partners (P. Derek Lewis, Q.C. passed, 19
January 2017) had, cumulatively, practiced law as Solicitors and Barristers of
The Supreme Court of Newfoundland and Labrador, for 121 years, 6.5 months
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Derek Lewis, Q.C. (Bar Admission # 210), was the longest continuously-practicing
lawyer in Newfoundland and Labrador history: 68 years, two and one-half months.
He was admitted to law practice at the Newfoundland and Labrador Bar on 14
October 1947 (Solicitor) and 15 October 1967 (Barrister). He ceased, as a
Barrister and Solicitor licensed by the Law Society of Newfoundland and
Labrador, to practice law on 31 December 2015. He was then appointed a
non-practicing Life Member of the Society; a status he held when he passed on 19 January
2017. In totality, as either a practicing or as a non-practicing Barrister and
Solicitor, he was a member of the Newfoundland and Labrador Bar for 69 years,
three months.
David C. Day, Q.C. (Bar Admission # 278), currently, is the longest
continuously-practicing lawyer in Newfoundland and Labrador: 53 years, 4 months.
He was admitted to law practice at the Newfoundland and Labrador Bar on 26
February 1968,
(having intermittently been Lewis Q.C.’s law clerk from June 1959 to 25 February
1968).
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