Thomas G. FrohlingerB.Sc. (Hons), M.Sc., LL.B, P.Eng., P.Geo.Area Of Practice
Thomas Gordon Frohlinger joined the firm on Jan. 1, 2000, and became a named principal on July 1, 2000. He moved over to join his father-in-law from the higher profile Pitblado Buchwald Asper after 18 years there, starting as an articling student in 1981. Before law he acquired an honours B.Sc in geology from McGill (1969); an M.Sc in earth science from the University of Manitoba (1973) and made the deans honor list at the Faculty of Law at the University of Manitoba in all three years between 1978 and 1981. Tom's passion these days at the practice include the areas of entrepreneurial and commercial law, administrative law and construction litigation. Besides law Frohlinger has professional credentials that embrace geology, engineering, and mining. Add to that his entrepreneurship (from running a northern fly-in lodge to building a computer training franchise for children), his law and commerce faculty lectureship responsibilities, his flying, his real estate brokerage, his northern Canada connections, his First Nations' rights interests, his restaurant involvement and sports franchises. All of these are part of the one package, and add his award as master translator, plus appointment as Honorary Consul of the Republic of Hungary, and there is a heady mix of skills and experience (and good humor) at your table. Frohlinger was 11 when he fled Budapest in the aftermath of the Soviet tank invasion of the tumultuous 1956 Hungarian Revolution. He emigrated to Canada in 1958 and holds dual Canadian-Hungarian citizenship. After securing his geology degree at McGill, he spent time with mining companies all across Canada doing geological exploration, line cutting, surveying, diamond drilling, mapping and prospecting. Then an opportunity came up with Manitoba's Department of Mines Resources and Environmental Management. He signed on becoming head of mineral administration after five years. In that time he was responsible for the financial and technical administration of all mining joint venture programs of the Government of Manitoba. This involved developing and implementing legislation governing development and production of metallic and industrial and quarry minerals as well as the technical and financial supervision of individual prospects. These early career years developed his taste for Canada's north which launched him into the commercial tourism business. He bought Tamarack Lodge at Morson, Ont. As owner-operator came lessons in the realities environment, fisheries, tourism and crown lands bureaucracies. About that time, too, it became clear a flying license would be an asset, a belief, after experiences of "imperfect arrivals". Tom is manager of professional resources for the firm. In this capacity he was nominated as Ernst and Young's Entrepreneur of the Year 2004 in the professional services category for Western Canada. Frohlinger has spent a lot of time returning his experience to the profession. The mid-1980s to the late 1990s are marked by many appointments to deliver lectures in business, commerce, management, law, and ethics- at the law faculty, at Banff and to the Law Society. Tom Frohlinger and the family's association with the culture of the community (Folk Arts Council, theatre), sports (Frohlinger 's a basketball aficionado, has been an investor and has held executive roles with the International Basketball Association), social service work, education, hospital volunteering and the Manitoba Museum, to name a few. |
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