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Nahmiash, Laurent, Dentons Canada LLP Montréal - (514) 878-8818 - laurent.nahmiash@dentons.com
Laurent Nahmiash is Co-chair of the National Class Action Practice Group. His practice focuses on class-ac-
tion defense work and commercial and insurance litigation. He represents automotive and other manufactur-
ers and finance companies in various consumer-protection and product-liability class actions. He is involved
in securities class actions and has successfully defended pharmaceutical clients in various class actions. He has
considerable commercial litigation and arbitration experience and has been involved in a number of cross-bor-
der and offshore trust/captive reinsurance lawsuits. He has successfully defended various high-technology and
e-commerce cases. He is regularly retained to defend insurance brokers and financial advisors and planners in
the context of professional liability claims. He has been retained as coverage and defense counsel by numerous
insurance carriers. President of the Québec chapter of the Canadian Bar Association Class Action Division
2012-2014.
Williams, David B., Harrison Pensa LLP London - (519) 661-6782 - dwilliams@harrisonpensa.com
Considered by many to be one of Ontario's most respected civil litigators, Dave Williams specializes in
complex commercial litigation, class actions, plaintiff personal injury and medical malpractice. As a veteran
litigator, Williams's 30+ year career has brought him before the Trial Division, the Court of Appeal and the
Supreme Court of Canada. He has been involved in many high-profile cases, including being a member of the
plaintiffs' class-action group for the Walkerton contaminated water claim as well as a landmark Aboriginal
rights dispute. Most recently, Williams was co-counsel in one of the most significant class-action judgments
in Canada. In 2009, Williams was inducted into the American College of Trial Lawyers. He is also repeatedly
selected as Canada's top lawyer in corporate and commercial litigation, insurance law and personal injury liti-
gation, including being named by Best Lawyers as "Lawyer of the Year" in corporate and commercial litigation
London/Windsor in 2014 and 2017. Williams was also the Managing Partner at Harrison Pensa from 1999
until he stepped down in 2014.
Saint-Onge, Jean, AdE, Lavery, de Billy, L.L.P. Montréal - (514) 877-2938 - jsaintonge@lavery.ca
Senior litigation partner focused in the areas of class actions, product liability, competition and environmental
law. He has acted as defense counsel in numerous precedent-setting cases and represented clients in multijuris-
dictional and cross-border class actions. He is regularly invited to speak about legal issues before e Canadian
Institute, Insight, e Canadian Bar Association, the Québec Bar, the Practising Law Institute, Osgoode Pro-
fessional Development and the Defence Research Institute (DRI). Listed among the leading practitioners in
the fields of Class Actions Litigation, Commercial Insurance Litigation, Product Liability and Cross-border
Litigation in e Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory and in the Lexpert® Guide to the Leading US/Canada
Cross-border Litigation Lawyers in Canada; Lawyer of the Year by e Best Lawyers in Canada 2013 in the
field of Class Action Litigation in Montréal; Fellow, Litigation Counsel of America (LCA) and e Inter-
national Academy of Trial Lawyers (IATL); Advocatus Emeritus (AdE); Prix de la justice du Québec Award
2007; Québec Bar 1981.
McEwan, J. Kenneth, QC, Hunter Litigation Chambers Vancouver - (604) 647-3536
kmcewan@litigationchambers.com -
Ken McEwan practices corporate commercial, securities and competition liti-
gation at both trial and appellate levels. His class-action representations include 3M, Capital One and Cargill,
for whom he successfully acted in the Supreme Court of Canada. He also has a significant arbitration practice
and is a member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. His peer review rankings include a Martindale-
Hubbell rating of AV and Benchmark' s British Columbia Litigator of the Year for each of 2013-2016. He is
a Director of both the International Society of Barristers and e Advocates' Society, and a member of the
American College of Trial Lawyers. He has been appointed by the Law Society to the Committee on Rela-
tions with the Judiciary and was a longstanding member of the Attorney General's Rules Revision Committee
until April 2016. He is author of the third edition of Sopinka on the Trial of an Action, and co-author of Com-
mercial Arbitration in Canada: A Guide to Domestic and International Arbitrations. Appointed QC in 2004.
