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90 www.lexpert.ca Tushinski, Paul Dutton Brock LLP > (416) 593-4411 ptushinski@duttonbrock.com Paul Tushinski is a senior partner at Dutton Brock LLP, with over 40 years of litigation and dispute resolution experience and a certified specialist in civil litigation by the Law Society of Ontario. He appears at all levels of court in Ontario. He is also a mediator. He is listed in The Best Lawyers in Canada and Lexpert as a Most Frequently Recommended practitioner in both Litigation – Commercial Insurance and Personal Injury and a Repeatedly Recommended practitioner in Products Liability. He was named Lawyer of the Year in 2020 by The Best Lawyers in Canada. His practice is in the area of defence with emphasis on products liability, class proceedings, environmental and construction claims, complex insurance coverage, and property disputes, He is past president of the Toronto Lawyers Association, a founding member and past president of the Canadian Defence Lawyers Association, and a past director of The Advocates' Society. Vachon, Richard Woods LLP > (514) 982-6103 rvachon@woods.qc.ca Partner and chairman of the management committee of Woods LLP, Richard Vachon acts predominantly in the fields of commercial litigation, administrative law, class actions, securities litigation, defamation, and employment law. He has established a distinguished reputation rooted in his keen understanding of economic, strategic, and operational intricacies, often positioning him as a trusted advisor in business matters. He pleads regularly before the courts of first instance and the Court of Appeal, as well as before arbitration tribunals. Tanner, Steven McCarthy Tétrault LLP > (416) 601-8193 stanner@mccarthy.ca Steven is a partner in the Intellectual Property Litigation Group in Toronto. Focused primarily on contentious patent litigation, he has led some of Canada's largest and most significant patent infringement actions in the pharmaceutical, telecommunications and oil & gas industries. He acts as co-lead of our firm's oil and gas patent litigation practice, with a strong track record of successful litigation outcomes. Over the course of the past three years Steven has been involved in several high-stakes trials in the Federal Court, and several high-stakes appeals at the Federal Court of Appeal, all in patent infringement and impeachment actions. Traves, Robert W. Borden Ladner Gervais LLP (BLG) > (416) 367-6272 rtraves@blg.com Robert (Bob) Traves is a partner in BLG's Toronto office. Traves practises civil litigation in the areas of major tort and property damage litigation, commercial insurance litigation, professional negligence claims, insurance coverage disputes and municipal liability. His insurance defence practice includes the defence of diverse casualty and property claims, as well as advancing subrogated claims on behalf of insurers. He is an accredited mediator through the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution. He also practises major tort and property damage litigation, commercial insurance litigation, professional negligence claims, and personal injury with an emphasis on insurance defence. Bob also has extensive municipal liability expertise. Recognized in Lexpert Special Edition – Litigation. Selected by peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in Canada (Alternative Dispute Resolution, Insurance Law. Personal Injury Litigation). He is a frequent speaker, demonstrator and chair on insurance and personal injury-related topics through Osgoode Professional Development and Insight programs. LLB, University of Ottawa. Ontario Bar, 1985. Templer, Deborah McCarthy Tétrault LLP > (416) 601-8421 dtempler@mccarthy.ca Deborah is recognized as a leading lawyer in Canada in complex product liability cases, with a national practice defending clients in multi-jurisdictional product liability and mass tort actions. Deborah has unique expertise in consumer class actions and government-initiated health-care cost recovery actions involving allegations of a failure to warn of addiction, of health-related risks, and of the risk of environmental contamination. She has led or assisted on the most significant consumer product liability cases in recent Canadian history, including mandates for Philip Morris International, Endo Pharmaceuticals, JUUL Labs, 3M Company, Molson Coors, Behr Process Corporation, and their respective Canadian affiliates. Deborah is regularly retained in bet-the-company litigation, where plaintiffs are seeking hundreds of billions of dollars in losses, including in the long-running Canadian tobacco, opioid, vape and, most recently, PFAS litigation. Lexpert-ranked leading litigation lawyers