Each year, Caldwell Partners International chooses 40 Canadians who were under 40 in the past year to honour for their outstanding achievements. Click here to learn more about the program, and find more winners in the list below.
As assistant general counsel to the bank, Norie Campbell oversees the Canadian legal department and its 60 lawyers, which serve business and corporate functions at Toronto-Dominion Bank from its Bay Street headquarters in Toronto. She also directs legal support for the bank’s corporate development side.
“We’ve been on quite a growth tear. We now have as many retail branches in the bank in the United States as we do in Canada. These were all transactions I’ve worked on,” she says. This includes looking at legal issues that might be part of any purchase by the bank.
“The story for TD has been that it’s gone from being a good Canadian bank to being a Top 10 North American bank. We’ve done very well compared with other banks, but we’ve also been on an expansion [drive] because we truly have a North American footprint.”
She sees her role as guarding and improving a 150-year-old Canadian institution, and passing it on in good shape to the next generation.
Ms. Campbell and her husband, also a lawyer, have a three-year-old and a seven-month-old. She is currently on a graduated return from maternity leave, but she remains busy, joking that her hobby is “reading reviews of movies and books and restaurants” that she used to have time to visit.
“You really do have to get down to deciding your priorities with work and with family when you have a big job. Realistically, I think that’s what you concentrate on,” she said. “You figure out ‘this matters, and that doesn’t matter’ – put up pictures in the bedroom, and give yourself a break that things aren’t going to be perfect.”
Ms. Campbell is preparing to take on a new role at TD Bank Group, as general counsel of the entire bank, starting in November.
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