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PRODUCT LIABILITY Glenn Smith Lenczner Slaght Royce Smith Griffin LLP Tel: (416) 865-2927 Fax: (416) 865-2853 Toronto gsmith@litigate.com Mary M. Thomson Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP Tel: (416) 862-4644 Fax: (416) 862-7661 Toronto mary.thomson@gowlings.com Glenn M. Zakaib Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP Tel: (416) 869-5711 Fax: (416) 350-6907 Toronto gzakaib@casselsbrock.com Founding partner. Glenn Smith has a diverse commercial litigation practice with an emphasis on class actions and complex insurance litigation. He has been retained on some of the most significant insurance law cases in Canada. He has a special interest in product liability and cases involving insurance coverage of corporate directors and officers as well as the legal dimensions of technology. Smith was on the Ontario Task Force for implementing the Ontario e-Discovery Guidelines. He frequently lectures to professional organizations on e-discovery, technology and the law. He has taught trial advocacy for many years and is a certified mediator. Mary M. Thomson is the head of the Advocacy Department in Gowlings' Toronto office and national leader of the firm's Product Liability practice. She is one of Canada's pre-eminent practitioners in the areas of class actions, mass tort litigation, product liability, pharma litigation, health law, consent law and privacy issues. Thomson has 30 years of experience representing clients before the courts, public inquiries, professional regulatory bodies and other administrative tribunals. Thomson routinely acts as Canadian lead and coordinating counsel in class actions and manages complex litigation across Canada through robust project management. She combines her substantial courtroom experience with an ability to supervise high-functioning teams providing detailed legal analysis, delivering solid value and providing dedicated client service. Thomson works closely with clients, assisting them in defining and implementing the necessary strategic plan for their litigation. Partner — Product Liability and Class Proceedings. Practice focused on product liability (drug and medical devices, automotive and aviation products, industrial equipment, electrical equipment, home appliances), and class proceedings (product liability, life insurance, misrepresentation claims, Competition Act claims). Involved in numerous precedent-setting cases and leading class-action cases. Member of the Defense Research Institute (DRI) Product Liability Committee, Drug and Medical Device Committee, and International Committee, and is noted as a leading lawyer by The Lexpert®/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada, Chambers Global, the PLC Life Sciences Handbook, The Best Lawyers in Canada and the Who's Who of Life Sciences Lawyers. Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America, an invitation-only honorary trial lawyer society. Immediate past Chair of the DRI International Committee, Canadian Regional Director with DRI and Chair of the International SLG with the Product Liability Committee for the DRI. Called to the Ontario Bar in 1983. Peter W. Kryworuk Lerners LLP Tel: (519) 640-6317 Fax: (519) 932-3317 London pkryworuk@lerners.ca Practices in the areas of civil litigation, including personal injury and insurance law, medical negligence and professional liability, class-action litigation, commercial litigation, occupational health & safety and construction litigation. Certified Specialist in Civil Litigation by LSUC. Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. Leader of the Health Law Practice Group. Author and presenter of numerous papers and articles on various legal topics. Past Adjunct Professor of law at the University of Western Ontario. Called to the Ontario Bar in 1984. LEXPERT • December 2013 | www.lexpert.ca | 121