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Chernos, David, Chernos Flaherty Svonkin LLP Toronto - (416) 855-0402 - dchernos@cfscounsel.com
Practice focuses on corporate and commercial litigation, with an emphasis on matters involving shareholders'
disputes (including those involving family and other closely held companies), insolvency, corporate restruc-
turing, income tax, directors', officers' and professional liability, and insurance coverage disputes. Has broad
experience in estates litigation, having acted for numerous trustees and beneficiaries as well as Ontario's Office
of e Children's Lawyer. Has appeared as lead counsel before the Ontario Trial Courts, the Ontario Court
of Appeal, the Supreme Court of Canada and the Tax Court of Canada. Has written on bankruptcy issues in
Canadian Bankruptcy Reports. Directorship, e Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History. Membership,
e Advocates' Society. Ontario Bar, 1993; LLB, 1991, Queen's University; BA (Honors), 1988, University
of Toronto.
Cherniak, Earl A., QC, Lerners LLP Toronto - (416) 601-2350 - echerniak@lerners.ca
Regarded by the Canadian litigation Bar as one of the country's leading counsel and arbitrators, Earl A. Cher-
niak, QC, LLB, FCIArb, is a partner at Lerners LLP. Practice includes trial and appellate work, arbitrations
and mediations. Member at 3 Verulam Buildings chambers in London (UK) and Arbitration Place (Toronto).
Member of (UK) Commercial Bar Association; London Court of International Arbitration; Canadian roster
of arbitrators of International Chamber of Commerce; ADR Institute of Canada; international and Cana-
dian panels of arbitrators for the International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR); Toronto Commercial
Arbitration Society (TCAS) (past Chair). Elected Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and Fellow
of American College of Trial Lawyers and International Academy of Trial Lawyers. Past President of e
Advocates' Society (Ontario). He was a Bencher of e Law Society of Upper Canada (1999–2007)
and a Commissioner of the Ontario Law Reform Commission (1986-1992).
Conklin, David D., Goodmans LLP Toronto - (416) 597-5164 - dconklin@goodmans.ca
Partner, commercial and securities litigation practice. Focuses on corporate governance, investigations, direc-
tors' and officers' liability, securities class actions, regulatory proceedings and complex commercial disputes.
Represents shareholders and boards of directors of private and public companies. Before joining Goodmans
in 2007, he was a partner and senior litigator at a leading Toronto litigation boutique. Received his LLM from
Columbia University, was called to the New York Bar in 2006 and began practicing with a leading US securi-
ties and class-action firm. Teaches courses on corporate governance and M&A at the University of Toronto
Faculty of Law (Adjunct Faculty) and also in the MBA program at the Schulich School of Business (Execu-
tive in Residence). Recognized as a leading litigator by Best Lawyers in Canada (class action and corporate
commercial), e Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory (class action, corporate commercial and securities) and
Lexpert®/ROB Special Edition on Canada's Leading Litigation Lawyers. Also recognized by Benchmark
Litigation Canada as a Litigation Star (commercial and securities).
Curry, Tom, Lenczner Slaght Royce Smith Griffin LLP Toronto - (416) 865-3096 - tcurry@litigate.com
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.
