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Greenspan Partners has confirmed that its senior partner and a prominent Toronto criminal lawyer, Eddie Greenspan, has died at age 70 on early Wednesday in Phoenix, Ariz. The company mentioned in a mid-morning announcement that “it is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our senior partner, friend and father Eddie Greenspan.” It was added that the “funeral details will follow.” One of his two daughter, Julianna, is a partner in the law firm. No cause of death was given.
Born on Feb. 28, 1944 in Niagara Falls, Edward Leonard Greenspan was well known for his 44-year-long high-profile career as a defence lawyer and as the host and narrator of a CBC docudrama Scales of Justice that won a Gemini Award in 1993. A famous 2005 TV profile of Greenspan, featured on CBC’s Life and Times, showed how he proved himself as a lawyer while working for millionaire, Peter Demeter, and businessman, Helmut Buxbaum. In addition to that, Greenspan’s other high-profile clients included disgraced mogul, Conrad Black, theatre impresario, Garth Drabinsky, Saskatchewan farmer, Robert Latimer, former Nova Scotia premier, Gerald Regan, and a German financier involved with former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, Karlheinz Schreiber.
Greenspan was a very passionate advocate who rallied against restoration of the death penalty in Canada. He said that “this is a tremendous reflection of our social values,” and “I don’t want to live in a country that allows hanging and I’m going to fight to make sure I don’t live in that country.”
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