The Lexpert Guides to the Leading US/Canada Cross-Border Corporate and Litigation Lawyers in Canada profiles leading business lawyers and features articles for attorneys and in-house counsel in the US about business law issues in Canada.
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CLASS ACTION John B. Laskin Torys LLP Tel: (416) 865-7317 Fax: (416) 865-7380 Toronto jlaskin@torys.com Senior trial and appellate counsel. Broad business litigation practice with emphases on administrative and constitutional law, competition law, intellectual property and class actions. Appeared in the Supreme Court of Canada, in courts across Canada, in domestic and international arbitrations, and before administrative tribunals. Recognized as a leading commercial and public law litigator in publications including The Lexpert®/ American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada, Woodward White's The Best Lawyers in Canada and Chambers & Partners' Chambers Global: World's Leading Lawyers for Business, The Client's Guide. Fellow, American College of Trial Lawyers and Litigation Counsel of America. Speaks and writes regularly on public law, competition and civil litigation issues. Editor of civil cases for Canadian Charter of Rights Annotated. Before joining Torys, was associate professor at University of Toronto Faculty of Law. LLM, 1977, University of California. LLB (Gold Medalist), 1976, University of Toronto. Ontario Bar, 1979. Alberta Bar, 1987. Alan J. Lenczner, QC Lenczner Slaght Royce Smith Griffin LLP Tel: (416) 865-3090 Fax: (416) 865-9010 Toronto alenczner@litigate.com Founding partner. Widely acknowledged as one of Canada's leading litigators, Alan Lenczner has applied his advocacy skills to yield precedent-setting decisions in nearly every area of civil litigation. Drawing on four decades of experience in complex litigation matters, he appears regularly before courts at all levels across the country, as well as administrative tribunals. He has also appeared as counsel before the High Court and the Court of Appeal in the UK and is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. A frequent lecturer on a broad range of legal subjects, Lenczner has helped to guide a generation of lawyers. Jeffrey S. Leon Bennett Jones LLP Tel: (416) 777-7472 Fax: (416) 863-1716 Toronto leonj@bennettjones.com Larry P. Lowenstein Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP Tel: (416) 862-6454 Fax: (416) 862-6666 Toronto llowenstein@osler.com Co-Head of Litigation. General domestic, international and cross-border litigation practice before courts and arbitration tribunals. Extensive trial and appellate experience. Has acted in securities, commercial, corporate, class proceedings, product liability, professional negligence and administrative law matters. Recipient of Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal (2013); Catzman Award for Professionalism and Civility (2010); and the Law Society Medal (2005). Past President of TAS(O); Regent and Fellow of the ACTL (past Vice Chair of the Access to Justice Committee, past Chair of the Ontario Province and the Canada–United States Committees); Director and Fellow of the IATL; Member of ISOB; Past Chair of the Board of Directors of Pro Bono Law Ontario; Honorary Member of COMBAR; Certified Specialist in Civil Litigation by LSUC. Senior partner in Osler's Litigation Group and Chair, National Litigation Department, from 2005 to 2010. Practice focuses on complex litigation and arbitrations at trial and on appeal. Recent engagements have involved class actions, corporate governance matters, securities litigation and enforcement, fiduciary claims, contested mergers & acquisitions, franchising disputes and environmental liability. Listed in many leading legal publications, including The 2013 Lexpert®/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada and profiled as a recommended leading practitioner in The 2013 Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory for Litigation (Corporate Commercial, Directors' & Officers' Liability, and Securities) Class Actions and Franchising Law. Frequent conference presenter and editor of Corporate Litigation, a quarterly publication. Called to the Ontario Bar in 1983 and received law degrees from Oxford University (1979) and the University of Toronto (1981). LEXPERT • December 2013 | www.lexpert.ca | 61