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www.lexpert.ca 77 McGuire, Gord Adair Goldblatt Bieber LLP > (416) 941-5860 gmcguire@agbllp.com Gord acts for individuals and businesses in all manner of civil and commercial litigation, with particular expertise in insurance coverage disputes. He also acts in contractual and tort disputes, employment law, real estate litigation, defamation, partnership and shareholder disputes, and professional negligence claims. Gord is a seasoned advocate, having represented clients in several multi-week trials and appeared as lead or co-counsel in over 60 reported decisions in Ontario's Superior Court of Justice, Divisional Court, and Court of Appeal. Gord graduated from Dalhousie Law School in 2009 as the Gold Medalist of his class and was the recipient of numerous academic awards and distinctions. After completing his articles Gord was selected as one of two Ontario lawyers to receive the Fox Scholarship, through which he spent a year working alongside barristers in London, England. Gord regularly contributes to legal publications and is a dedicated legal educator. He teaches Insurance Law as an Adjunct Professor at Western University and is a contributing author on the topic of insurance broker's professional liability for Lexis Practice Advisor Canada. In 2021, Gord was selected as a Lexpert Rising Star. McLaughlin, Frank McCarthy Tétrault LLP > (416) 601-7531 fmclaugh@mccarthy.ca Partner in the Litigation Group in the firm's Toronto office. Practice focuses on cases involving complex scientific issues, including the defence of medical malpractice cases and pharmaceutical product liability class actions. Frank is a leading trial and appellate counsel in complex medical malpractice cases acting on behalf of physicians and has an outstanding record of successfully defending such cases before judges and juries. Frank is an experienced appellate advocate and has conducted many appeals in the Ontario Divisional Court, the Ontario Court of Appeal, the Federal Court of Appeal, and the Supreme Court of Canada. In the product liability space, Frank acts as national lead counsel for innovator drug manufacturers in product liability class proceedings. Frank was lead counsel in Martin v. AstraZeneca and Price v. Lundbeck, two groundbreaking decisions in which class certification was denied. Regularly speaks on medical-legal and class action topics and for many years taught trial advocacy at the University of Toronto's Faculty of Law, where he is an alumnus. Admitted to the Ontario bar in 1990. Frank represented Canada at three consecutive summer Olympic Games from 1984 to 1992, winning a bronze medal in 1988. McMillan, Wes Allen / McMillan Litigation Counsel > (604) 282-3980 wes@amlc.ca Wes loves the law almost as much as he loves the Winnipeg Jets. To his wife's dismay, he records and watches Supreme Court of Canada hearings for fun. It is rare that a legal issue doesn't pique Wes's interest. Wes is an experienced commercial litigator having made appearances before administrative tribunals, trial courts, the Court of Appeal and multiple appearances at the Supreme Court of Canada on a broad array of legal issues. The primary focus of Wes' litigation practice is real estate and business disputes. In his real estate practice, Wes has experience advising and litigating in respect of complex land assemblies, collapsing real estate deals, easements, restrictive covenants and statutory building schemes, to name a few. When not thinking about the law, Wes enjoys staying active by running, curling, playing hockey (having missed out on an NHL career only by reason of a lack of size and talent), and trying to keep up with his two daughters. Meighen, Hugh A. Borden Ladner Gervais LLP (BLG) > (416) 367-6614 hmeighen@blg.com Hugh Meighen is a partner in Commercial Litigation Group and Construction Group of BLG's Toronto office, specializing in international disputes, including international commercial, investment, and construction arbitration and international litigation in a range of industry sectors. With over ten years of dedicated arbitration counsel work, Meighen has advised a range of Canadian and international companies in disputes governed by the arbitration rules of the ICC, LCIA, UNCITRAL, ICDR, BCICAC, and DIAC. He co-authored the Guide to the PCA Arbitration Rules (Oxford University Press, 2014). He is an adjunct professor of international commercial arbitration at Osgoode Hall Law School. Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. Who's Who Legal recognized Meighen as a Global Leader in Arbitration, as a Future Leader in Arbitration, and named him one of ten Most Highly Regarded Partners Under 45 in the Americas. Education: AB cum laude (Princeton University); BCL/LLB (McGill University). Admitted to Ontario Bar in 2010 and New York Bar in 2011. Melchers, Sophie Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP > (514) 847-4784 sophie.melchers@nortonrosefulbright.com Sophie Melchers practises mainly in the areas of commercial, corporate, and securities litigation as well as class actions. She has represented clients before the Quebec courts and the Supreme Court of Canada in connection with disputed take-over bids, dissenting shareholder remedies, plans of arrangement, insider trading, and market manipulation. Her broad experience in securities litigation also encompasses representation of reporting issuers and their officers in connection with investigations conducted by the AMF, Quebec's securities regulator, into insider trading, market manipulation and continuous disclosure and their representation in defence before the Tribunal administratif des marchés financiers and the penal courts in proceedings instituted by the AMF. Melchers has also conducted internal investigations into potential securities law breaches. Lexpert-ranked leading litigation lawyers