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benefits matters in the $5.8-billion pur-
chase of Safeway by Sobeys; assisting the
Province of New Brunswick in Charter
challenges to the implementation of the
Public Service Shared Risk Plan; advising
on pension administration and investment
matters for the provincial public sector and
utility pension plans in Nova Scotia and
Newfoundland; advising on pension plan
amendments and collective bargaining at
universities in New Brunswick and Prince
Edward Island; and advising pension
plans on amendment and conversion to
shared-risk or target-benefit plans in New
Brunswick and Nova Scotia. Level has had
leadership roles in promoting diversity and
inclusion in the profession and the firm.
Kate A. Crawford
BORDEN LADNER GERVAIS LLP
> TORONTO
Kate Crawford is a litigator in medical
malpractice actions, class actions and ad-
ministrative law. She represented the Hos-
pital for Sick Children in the Inquiry into
Pediatric Forensic Pathology in Ontario at
several months of hearings. She regularly
represents medical leaders in proceedings
relating to physicians' privileges under
the Public Hospitals Act, where she forges
solutions — both collaborative and liti-
gated — to issues of patient care and safety,
physicians' livelihoods and reputations,
and professional licensing. She represented
Toronto East General Hospital at the JKE
Inquest, a lengthy probe into police and
health-care interactions with the mentally
ill. She also represented SickKids in the
Motherisk Hair Analysis Independent Re-
view and acts as the hospital's lead counsel
in the proposed class action arising from
the Motherisk review.
Gillian Dingle
TORYS LLP > TORONTO
Gillian Dingle practises civil litigation in
corporate and securities law. She advises
capital markets participants on regulatory
matters and internal investigations and
provides representation in civil and regula-
tory proceedings and regulatory investiga-
tions. She focuses on disclosure, securities
class actions, and defending investment
dealers and brokers in trading-related mat-
ters. She also represents corporations in
contested-transaction matters. Recent ac-
tions include representing two underwrit-
ers in a proposed securities class action
alleging misrepresentation by a mining
company and certain officers and directors;
representing a Canadian Schedule I bank
in a securities class action alleging disclo-
sure violations related to the US subprime
mortgage market; and representing Manu-
life Financial in a securities class action and
a secondary-market class action concern-
ing the disclosure of risk-management and
equity-market risk of Manulife's variable
annuity products. Gillian co-founded the
Litigation Assistance Program at the OSC.
Larry Ellis
CASSELS BROCK & BLACKWELL LLP
> TORONTO
Larry Ellis practises insolvency and re-
structuring law. He has acted for numerous
secured creditors in high-profile recovery
efforts, including Warner Bros., Fox and
Sony in the Blockbuster receivership. He
regularly acts for major banks in CCAA
and receivership proceedings and for court
officers in CCAA, BIA and receivership
proceedings. is includes acting for Grant
ornton in the receivership and wind-up
of Triwest Construction and for Richter in
its capacity as court-appointed monitor for
restructuring Bowring and Bombay. He
acts in international fraud cases, including
for Isle of Man Joint Liquidators and local
receivers in recovering Banners Broker as-
sets for more than 100,000 creditors across
some 100 countries. Larry was also part of
a KPMG team for the Portus Group re-
ceivership, involving $800 million of inves-
tor funds at risk in Canada's largest hedge
fund scandal.
Laura L. Emmett
LERNERS LLP > LONDON, ONT.
Laura Emmett is an outstanding insurance
defence litigator. In Montepeque v. State
Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance, she
was co-counsel representing the defendant,
State Farm, in a five-week trial in which
the jury found there was no liability and
no damages were awarded. Other notable
actions include obtaining a court order un-
der the Workplace Safety and Insurance Act
barring a respondent's civil claim against
a client applicant; obtaining summary
judgment that the limitation period for
claiming non-earned benefits had expired;
blocking a motion for summary judgment
against a statutory third-party client; on
appeal, overturning an arbiter's ruling re-
quiring production of a neuro-psycholog-
ical assessment by an insured party. Laura
is President of the Red Shoe Society, which
has raised more than $300,000 for Ronald
McDonald House.
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