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78 www.lexpert.ca Lexpert-ranked leading litigation lawyers Winsor, Roderick S. W. Blaney McMurtry LLP > (416) 593-3971 rwinsor@blaney.com Practice restricted to commercial, class action, and insurance litigation concentrating on complex and multijurisdictional litigation. Cases related to aviation, the environment, government, technology, product liability, liability claims against various professionals, and conspiracy claims, including exceptionally wide variety of class actions. Author of Good Faith (Canada Law Book) and co-author of e Insurance Act of Ontario Annotated (Butterworths). Frequent writer on topics such as Crown Duty of Care & Regulatory Negligence; Reducing Damages & Defense Costs in Environmental Claims; Class Actions: e Good News; Punitive Damages for Breach of Contract; Causation & the SCC, e Doctrine of Reasonable Expectations; Tripartite Relationships in Insurance; Misrepresentations & Non Disclosure on Applications; Coverage Denials & Bad Faith Claims; Defense of Multi-Jurisdictional Product Liability Claims; Recovery by Insured of Uninsured Portion of Claim; Excess & Other Partially Insured Claims; Understanding the Insurance Contract, and Commercial Insurance Law. Martindale's highest AV rating. Expert Guides' Guide to the World's Leading Insurance & Reinsurance Lawyers. e Best Lawyers in Canada 2020 for Class Actions and Insurance Law. LLB, Osgoode Hall Law School. Woods, James A., AdE Woods LLP > (514) 982-4503 jwoods@woods.qc.ca James A. Woods, the founder of our firm, is widely regarded as one of the leading lawyers in Quebec and Canada. A seasoned litigator and arbitrator with 40 years of experience, he has garnered a long history of success before all levels of federal and provincial courts in Ontario and Quebec, as well as the Supreme Court of Canada. Over the course of his career, he has acted as well as arbitrator, either as chair or member of a panel, in a significant number of commercial and international cases, both ad hoc and under the auspices of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC). James is a Fellow of the prestigious American College of Trial Lawyers, Litigation Counsel of America and Federation of Defence and Corporate Counsel. Year aer year, clients and peers alike praise his skills and talent; he is consistently listed as a leading practitioner in commercial litigation and arbitration by prestigious legal directories. James has contributed generously to training, mentoring and knowledge sharing initiatives in Quebec and around the world. Teaching has been a part of his long-standing commitment to the education of future lawyers. In particular, he developed and taught for almost 30 years the Civil Litigation Techniques course at McGill University's Faculty of Law. Woodley, Matthew A. Reynolds Mirth Richards & Farmer LLP > (780) 497-3317 mwoodley@rmrf.com Matt focuses on human resource, free expression, constitutional, and administrative law. He provides advice to a wide range of organizations including employers, print and broadcast media organizations, post-secondary institutions, municipalities and professional regulatory bodies. He is admitted to the Bar in Alberta, Yukon and the Northwest Territories. Matt has appeared at all levels of court in Alberta on matters ranging from the constitutional right to equality, to free expression in the media and on post-secondary campuses, open courts, and privacy law. He has appeared as counsel before the Yukon Court of Appeal on a matter relating to media law, and before the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal in a case involving defamation. Matt has also appeared as counsel before the Supreme Court of Canada in a matter involving a constitutional challenge to a publication ban. Matt teaches administrative law at the University of Alberta Faculty of Law. He also taught communications law at MacEwan University for 10 years, and provides pro bono services to the Edmonton Community Legal Centre. He is a volunteer board member with the Alberta Law Reform Institute. Zakaib, Glenn M. Borden Ladner Gervais LLP (BLG) > (416) 367-6664 gzakaib@blg.com Glenn Zakaib practises in the area of commercial litigation with a focus on product liability and class proceedings. Glenn is the national co-chair of the Class Actions Group, providing strategic direction and coordination of the group across Canada. He is highly active with the Defence Research Institute (DRI) where he has held numerous positions and most recently has been a member of the DRI Law Institute, which oversees all educational seminars for the organization. Glenn is a member of the International Association of Defense Counsel and a Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America. He is recognized as a leading lawyer in Chambers Canada, Best Lawyers, and Who's Who Legal. Glenn was called to the Ontario Bar in 1983. He believes strongly in his client-oriented approach to law.