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CLASS ACTION Alan H. Mark Goodmans LLP Tel: (416) 597-4264 Fax: (416) 979-1234 Toronto amark@goodmans.ca Partner in the Litigation group at Goodmans. Practice includes corporate-commercial litigation, class actions and electricity law and regulation. Corporate-commercial litigation practice focuses on corporate governance, corporate finance, securities, financial services, and restructuring and insolvency. Class action practice includes securities, product liability and environmental claims. Also carries on a substantial electricity and regulatory practice, regularly representing clients in the electricity sector before the Ontario Energy Board and the courts. Has appeared at all levels of the Ontario and Federal Courts, including the Supreme Court of Canada, before the courts of several other provinces and before various administrative tribunals. Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and a director and President of The Advocates' Society. Frequent speaker and CLE instructor. Recommended counsel in numerous leading directories and was named Canada's Energy/Resource "Litigator of the Year" at the first Benchmark Canada Awards in 2013. Gordon McKee Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP Tel: (416) 863-3884 Fax: (416) 863-2653 Toronto gordon.mckee@blakes.com Partner in the Litigation Group and certified by The Law Society of Upper Canada as a Specialist in Civil Litigation. Many years' experience defending class-action lawsuits and serious product liability claims. One of a growing but small group of lawyers that has led the defence of class-action common issues trials in Canada. Defends clients in class actions involving prescription and over-the-counter medicines, medical devices, automotive equipment, fire protection systems, consumer products and environmental contamination. McKee represents multinational manufacturers and distributors of a wide variety of products in product liability suits in Ontario and other provinces. Currently lead counsel in Ontario and managing litigation nationally for some of the world's largest manufacturers of pharmaceutical medicines, medical devices, consumer goods, automotive parts and heavy equipment. Frequent speaker on class actions and product liability matters, and guest lecturer on trial advocacy. Member of PLAC, IADC and DRI. James C. Orr Kim Orr Barristers P.C. Tel: (416) 349-6571 Fax: (416) 598-0601 Toronto jo@kimorr.ca Chris G. Paliare, OO, LSM Paliare Roland Rosenberg Rothstein LLP Tel: (416) 646-4318 Fax: (416) 646-4301 Toronto chris.paliare@paliareroland.com 62 | LEXPERT • December 2013 | www.lexpert.ca James C. Orr, a founding principal of Kim Orr Barristers, has extensive trial, appellate and arbitration experience. His broad civil litigation background includes acting for plaintiffs and defendants in class actions, securities litigation, shareholder rights, competition/anti-trust, corporate restructuring, employment law and professional negligence matters. Orr has appeared as counsel at all levels of court in the province of Ontario, before the Federal Court and Supreme Court of Canada and also before a broad range of administrative bodies including the Canadian Competition Tribunal. Orr was admitted to the Ontario Bar in 1983 and Nova Scotia Bar in 1985. One of Canada's premier litigators both at trial and appellate levels; shareholder disputes, securities litigation, administrative law, Charter of Rights and Freedoms and constitutional litigation, class actions, employment law, labor law, pension litigation and white-collar criminal law. Fellow, IATL (Eastern Canadian Chair); Fellow, ISB; Fellow, ACTL and former Ontario Provincial Chair; honorary member of COMBAR; certified by the LSUC as a Specialist in Civil Litigation; Member, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. Consistently listed in the Lexpert® Guide to the Leading 100 US/Canada Cross-border Litigation Lawyers; The Lexpert® Guide to the 100 Most Creative Lawyers in Canada; The Lexpert®/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada; Chambers Global: The World's Leading Lawyers for Business; Mondaq's Employment Lawyers; Euromoney's Expert Guide to Global Labor and Employment Lawyers. LLB, Osgoode Hall (1970); LLM, University of Texas at Austin (1971). Called to the Ontario Bar (1973), with honors.