Lexpert magazine features articles and columns on developments in legal practice management, deals and lawsuits of interest in Canada, the law and business issues of interest to legal professionals and businesses that purchase legal services.
Issue link: https://digital.carswellmedia.com/i/894157
48 LEXPERT MAGAZINE | NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2017 ish Columbia and the Supreme Court of Canada, and before arbitration tribunals and administrative boards. She has broad experience working on complex com- mercial matters, including conducting internal investigations, and has appeared before regulators in Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom. Hunter is Chair of Access Pro Bono, BC's umbrel- la pro bono society. She previously chaired the CBA's national Pro Bono Committee and is a Member of the Law Society of BC's Access to Legal Services Advisory Committee. She oen acts as counsel pro bono, representing low-income clients in asylum, housing, benefits and family law matters as well as acting on important public law appeals. JESSICA KEARSEY Toronto Jessica Kearsey is a labour arbitration practitioner in public-sector labour arbi- tration, particularly in police and health- care labour relations. She has provided her strategic advice and her problem-solving skills in developing strong union manage- ment relationships. She has been involved, either leading or supporting, local interest arbitration in multiple sectors. And Ke- arsey has participated as adjunct faculty at Osgoode Hall (Labour Arbitration). She coaches competitive mooters and in partic- ular was a mentor to the MDC Moot team at Osgoode Hall Law School. REBECCA KENNEDY Thornton Grout Finnigan LLP Toronto Rebecca Kennedy is a partner at ornton Grout Finnigan, advising clients on bank- ruptcy, insolvency and corporate restruc- turing matters. She has represented lend- ers, debtors, receivers, trustees, inspectors, court-appointed monitors and DIP finan- ciers in regional, national and cross-border insolvencies. Kennedy became a partner at TGF in 2017. Her notable work includes acting for the Trustees of the UK Pen- sion Plan and the UK Pension Protection Fund in pursuing a $3-billion claim in the global restructuring proceedings of Nortel Networks and its subsidiaries, and in the allocation of its global proceeds of sale. rough this mandate, Kennedy deposed witnesses around the world and actively participated in the first ever cross-border insolvency trial in Toronto and Delaware. Rebecca is a Co-Chair of the Association for Corporate Growth's Young Profession- al Program, and was a panelist on Develop- ments in Insolvency Law at the Insolvency Institute (OBA). JEAN-CLAUDE KILLEY Paliare Roland Rosenberg Rothstein LLP Toronto Jean-Claude Killey is a partner at Paliare Roland Rosenberg Rothstein LLP, practis- ing litigation and arbitration. Among his cases, he acted for Cogeco Data Services Inc. in its successful defence of a specific performance claim relating to a massive network-building project, at both the ar- bitration and appeal levels (TDSB et al. v. Cogeco, 2017 ONSC 3718). His nominator, Robert Centa, writes: "He has extensive experience acting in departing-lawyer mat- ters and law firm break-ups. His success in these matters can be measured by the notable absence of reported decisions: his reported cases show his ability to persuade clients to take positions that will prevail in court, but he is also an able negotiator with success in resolving cases outside of court." He is a Director of Homes First, a charity that owns and/or manages 16 properties in Toronto providing housing and sup- port services to Toronto's most difficult to house population. MIRANDA LAM McCarthy Tétrault LLP Vancouver Miranda Lam is a partner in McCarthy Tetrault's Litigation Group in Vancouver. She practises in the areas of business dis- putes, including contractual claims and economic torts, and her areas of special- ization include securities litigation, share- holder remedies, corporate governance is- sues, and internal investigations, as well as internet and e-commerce issues and defa- mation. She has successfully appeared as counsel in the superior and appeal courts of BC and Ontario and the Supreme Court of Canada, as well as represented clients in various commercial arbitration proceedings and class action proceedings. She currently serves on the Board of the Vancouver Foundation, and is past Chair of the Board of Directors for the Univer- sity of British Columbia Alumni Asso- ciation (UBCAA). When she was Chair of UBCAA, she chaired numerous com- mittees, including the Chancellor Nomi- nation Committee as well as the UBC Alumni Achievement Awards. She is also on the Boards of United Way of the Low- er Mainland and Imagine Canada. She helped organize e Advocates' Society's | RISING STARS |