Edward Leonard Greenspan, QC is a Canadian lawyer and prolific author of legal volumes. He is one of the most famous defence lawyers in Canada, owing to numerous high-profile clients and to his national exposure on the popular Canadian Broadcasting Corporation radio series, The Scales of Justice and television series. A graduate of University College, Toronto and Osgoode Hall Law School, Greenspan is the senior partner of the Toronto law firm of Greenspan Partners LLP. He is a vice-president of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association. He is a member of the Quadrangle Society and a Senior Fellow of Massey College at the University of Toronto. Edward Greenspan became a Queen's Counsel in 1982. In 1991 in Boston Massachusetts, he was inducted into the American College of Trial Lawyers. Greenspan's work as a criminal defence lawyer has been widely recognized in the form of honorary degrees and medals. In 1999 the Law Society of Upper Canada awarded him an Honorary Doctor of Laws. He was awarded the G. Arthur Martin Medal in 2001. He received a Doctorate of Civil Laws from the University of Windsor in 2002, Assumption University in 2004 and Brock University in 2012. [More at Wikipedia]

February 28th, 1944 in Niagara Falls (Age 80)