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Chair of Torys' Litigation and Dispute Resolution Practice. Senior trial/appellate counsel
with a broad civil litigation practice, including corporate/commercial and securities
litigation, IP, defamation and administrative law cases. Has appeared as counsel on a wide
range of leading cases before all levels of court in Canada and in international arbitrations
and other tribunals. Has spoken and written extensively on advocacy and civil litigation.
Has taught advocacy in Canada, the United States, England, Scotland, New Zealand
and El Salvador. Recognized by Lexpert® and Benchmark as one of Canada's leading 25
women litigators. Chair, Touching Tiny Lives Foundation; President/Trustee, Harold
G. Fox Education; Trustee, Foundation for International Arbitration Advocacy, Geneva;
President's Council, University of Ottawa; Advisory Board, Program on Ethics, Business
and the Law, University of Toronto Law School. Recipient of numerous awards, includ-
ing the University of Ottawa's Honorary LLD and Meritas Tabaret Award. LLB (Gold
Medalist), 1972, University of Ottawa. Ontario Bar, 1974.
A senior partner of the litigation group in Toronto. Practices corporate, commercial and
securities litigation. Leading experience in all securities litigation, including securities
class-action litigation. Leading experience defending multi-jurisdictional investigations
and civil proceedings. Leading experience in director, officer and shareholder litigation
with emphasis on indemnification and oppression disputes. Leading capital markets
defense practice before the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC), the Investment
Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada, the Mutual Fund Dealers Association
and all other securities regulatory organizations in Canada. Leading experience acting
for investment dealers with respect to a broad array of regulatory investigations and civil
disputes, including professional negligence defense litigation. Former OSC Senior Inves-
tigation Counsel. Member of the OSC Securities Proceedings Advisory Committee.
Law clerk to Justice R.A. Ritchie of the Supreme Court of Canada in 1981. Admitted to
the New Brunswick Bar in 1981 and Ontario Bar in 1983.
Partner. Recognized nationally as a leading trial and appellate counsel, Tom Curry has
a long record of high-profile success in commercial litigation, class actions, arbitrations,
business disputes, administrative law, judicial review, intellectual property, competition,
and professional liability cases. A Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and
the International Academy of Trial Lawyers, he is a regular speaker on a wide variety of
subjects relating to trial and appellate practice and substantive law.
Sheila R.
Block
Torys LLP
Tel: (416) 865-7319
Fax: (416) 865-7380
Toronto
Nigel
Campbell
Blake, Cassels &
Graydon LLP
Tel: (416) 863-2429
Toronto
Tom Curry
Lenczner Slaght
Royce Smith
Griffin LLP
Tel: (416) 865-3096
Fax: (416) 865-9010
Toronto
sblock@torys.com
nigel.campbell@blakes.com
tcurry@litigate.com
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