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Lexpert-ranked leading litigation lawyers Sherriff, Kelsey Miller Thomson LLP > (604) 643-1200 ksherriff@millerthomson.com Kelsey Sherriff has a general commercial litigation practice focused on class actions, estates and trust law and administrative and regulatory health law. Kelsey has a diverse litigation practice. She acts as defence counsel in a wide variety of class actions including environmental, products liability, privacy and competition law across many industry sectors. She also has a robust trusts and estate litigation and dispute resolution practice, where she acts for executors on probate matters and for individuals and charities on issues concerning the validity of wills and variation claims. On the health law front, Kelsey acts for various administrative bodies such as regulatory colleges where her litigation work includes submissions before the Health Professions Board, disciplinary hearings, and Supreme Court matters. is practice allows her to draw on her background degree in kinesiology. In addition, Kelsey represents clients in her commercial litigation practice on matters involving contractual disputes, debt claims and shareholder disputes. Kelsey clerked for a year at the British Columbia Supreme Court following law school and currently serves as the co-chair of Miller omson Vancouver's Women's Leadership Initiative committee and co-chair of the national Pro Bono committee. LAWYER TO WATCH Shortreed, Megan Paliare Roland Rosenberg Rothstein LLP > (416) 646-4308 megan.shortreed@paliareroland.com Megan Shortreed routinely represents clients in corporate, commercial, employment, civil, and administrative litigation. She argues cases involving shareholder and partnership disputes, duties of directors and employees, trusts and estates, product liability, and other complex commercial cases. She acts oen on behalf of senior executives respecting their compensation, employment contracts or termination from employment, and for both employers and employees in respect of sensitive workplace investigations. She appears before the Toronto Commercial and Estates Lists, Ontario Court of Appeal, and the Supreme Court of Canada. She has extensive hearings experience before professional disciplinary tribunals. Megan has been featured in the Lexpert Special Edition — Litigation and has been listed by Lexpert since 2015 for Litigation – Corporate Commercial. She is recognized by both e Best Lawyers in Canada and Benchmark Canada. Megan was the inaugural recipient of the Honsberger Award, presented by the Toronto Lawyers Association in 2014, and received the Lexpert Zenith Award Celebrating Women in Law in 2017. In 2021, she was named Health Law/Medical Litigator of the Year by Benchmark Litigation Canada. Megan is a Bencher of the LSO and a former Director of e Advocates' Society. Singleton, John R., KC Singleton Urquhart Reynolds Vogel LLP > (604) 682-7474 jsingleton@singleton.com John R. Singleton, KC, is founder and Counsel at Singleton Urquhart Reynolds Vogel LLP. He has concentrated on the areas of insurance, construction, professional liability, and environmental matters, on behalf of property owners, architects, engineers, contractors, regulatory agencies, and insurers, and has acted as counsel in several precedent-setting cases for clients in these areas and on environmental issues. A chartered arbitrator and mediator of complex commercial disputes, he is involved in both mediation and arbitration on behalf of his clients and as a mediator/arbitrator retained by others. Over the past decade has served as fairness advisor on over one hundred infrastructure projects, including the Site C Dam and the New St. Paul's Hospital. He is an Adjunct Professor of Construction Law at University of British Columbia and a lecturer and author of papers on loss control, construction law, insurance law, environmental law, and other subjects for trade and legal publications. John is consistently recognized as a leader in the construction legal field, regularly earning top rankings from Best Lawyers, Who's Who Legal, Martindale-Hubbell, and others. Benchmark Canada has designated him a "litigation star" and he is ranked band 1 in Chambers Global. Smith, Crawford G. Lax O'Sullivan Lisus Gottlieb LLP > (416) 598-8648 csmith@lolg.ca Crawford's litigation practice focuses on complex corporate and commercial matters, competition and insurance litigation, and administrative law, with substantial class action expertise. Crawford has appeared as counsel in all levels of court in Ontario, in the Supreme Court of Canada, in the Federal Court, in commercial arbitrations, and before a variety of administrative tribunals including the Ontario Energy Board, the Ontario Securities Commission, the Competition Tribunal, and the Environmental Review Tribunal. Crawford's energy practice involves economic issues in multi-party litigation and frequent appearances as counsel before the Energy Board at hearings regarding rate regulation, infrastructure development, and demand-side management. His securities practice includes acting as counsel for investment dealers, mutual fund dealers, registered representatives, and other securities industry participants. He also handles regulatory proceedings and investigations by the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada and the Ontario Securities Commission. www.lexpert.ca 75