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

P. 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).

LEWIS, DAY LAW FIRM