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LITIGATION LAWYERS TO WATCH Jennifer M. Fantini Borden Ladner Gervais LLP Tel: (416) 367-6726 Fax: (416) 682-2816 Toronto jfantini@blg.com Partner practicing in the areas of labour relations and employment law. Advises publicand private-sector employers with respect to employee discipline and termination, wrongful dismissal, employment policies and contracts, employment standards, human rights issues, employment contracts and wrongful dismissal. Represents both employers and employees in wrongful dismissal and related civil litigation (at various levels of court), and appears on behalf of clients before various administrative tribunals, including the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario, and the Ontario Labour Relations Board. Retained to conduct investigations on behalf of clients in relation to human rights, harassment and discrimination complaints, and to conduct client training on a variety of labor and employment issues. Special interest and expertise in constructive dismissal law. Author, Quitting for Good Reason: The Law of Constructive Dismissal in Canada. Recognized in Chambers Global: The World's Leading Lawyers for Business. Recognized as a Lexpert® Rising Star in 2012. Called to the Ontario Bar in 2001. Jonathan Foreman Harrison Pensa LLP Tel: (519) 661-6775 Fax: (519) 667-3362 London jforeman@harrisonpensa.com Partner and leader of Harrison Pensa's Class Action Group with an emphasis on securities, competition law, pensions, consumer law and copyright law among others. An experienced litigator with exposure to virtually all aspects of class actions practice, including an emphasis on class action trials. Has also achieved substantial settlement results totaling more than $150 million across a wide range of matters. Adjunct Professor teaching class actions at the University of Western Ontario Law School. Frequent writer and presenter at legal conferences and commentator in the national print and television media. Graduate of the University of Western Ontario law school and called to the Ontario bar in 2002.Completed the "Emerging Leaders in Law Firms Program" at the Harvard Law School in 2013. Named one of Lexpert® 's "Rising Stars: Leading Lawyers Under 40" in 2013. Paul D. Guy WeirFoulds LLP Tel: (416) 947-5045 Fax: (416) 365-1876 Toronto pguy@weirfoulds.com Partner. Called to the Ontario Bar in 2004. Specializes in corporate commercial, insolvency and public law litigation. Paul Guy has appeared before all levels of court in Ontario, the Quebec courts, and has acted on several matters before the Supreme Court of Canada. Was an Adjunct Professor with the Faculty of Law at the University of Western Ontario and participates each year as a judge in various law school moot court and advocacy competitions. Named one of Canada's 2012 Lexpert® "Rising Stars: Leading Lawyers Under 40" and is consistently nominated in Lexpert® 's annual survey of leading lawyers in Canada in both categories of Corporate Commercial Litigation and Insolvency Litigation. Shane Hardy Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP Tel: (416) 869-5384 Fax: (416) 646-5501 Toronto shardy@casselsbrock.com Partner – Trade-marks and Copyright. Acts as counsel to a wide range of Canadian and international intellectual property rights holders, and assists in the protection and enforcement of some of the world's most famous trade-marks. Frequently retained to assist non-IP lawyers in defense of IP infringement claims. Provides opinions to domestic and international clients on trade-mark availability and registrability. Practice has also involved the protection and enforcement of copyrights, trade secrets and patent actions in the Ontario and Federal Courts. Registered Trade-Mark Agent. Member of the Intellectual Property Institute of Canada, Toronto Intellectual Property Group and the International Trademark Association. Called to the Ontario Bar in 2002. LEXPERT • December 2013 | www.lexpert.ca | 139

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