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25 CANADIANLAWYERMAG.COM/INHOUSE MAY/JUNE 2019 Babin Bessner Spry LLP Toronto babinbessnerspry.com Founded in 2009 by Ed Babin, a former senior litigation partner with Torys LLP, and Davies Ward Phillips LLP, Babin Bessner Spry LLP welcomed Cynthia Spry, formerly from Davies and Osler Hoskin & Harcourt LLP, in 2010, and Ellen Bessner, formerly from Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP and Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP, in 2014. The firm acts for a wide range of individual, institutional and corporate clients, including Rogers Communications Inc., Sleep Country Canada, the Commis - sioner of Competition and several major national and local securities dealers. Its practice areas include securities litigation and regulation, corporate governance, di- rector and officer liability, shareholder op- pression, fraud, competition, class actions, advertising law, professional liability and discipline and employment. The firm also regularly acts in a variety of public interest and pro bono matters. DMG Advocates LLP Toronto dmgadvocates.com DMG Advocates is a Toronto-based litiga- tion firm. Its partners have decades of ex- perience in corporate commercial litigation garnered at one of Canada's leading national firms. They litigate in commercial disputes across a broad range of sectors, including manufacturing, transportation, securities, media, technology, real estate, energy and construction. They also have knowledge and specialization in the laws relating to product liability, shareholder disputes, class action defence, franchise litigation, com - mercial arbitration, eDiscovery, defamation and privacy/cybersecurity. DMG lawyers are ranked among the top litigators in Canada. They are dedicated to delivering client-focused service that draws on the depth of their litigation expertise. With the skills and expertise to take on the largest and most complex files, DMG is also small enough to ensure that its clients receive boutique service delivered efficiently. Hunter Litigation Chambers Vancouver litigationchambers.com Hunter Litigation Chambers' lawyers practise a broad range of litigation matters at both the trial and appellate level includ- ing complex commercial litigation and arbitration, public and administrative law, employment law and criminal law. Recent briefs include representing British Colum- bia (director of civil forfeiture) in two lead- ing cases involving the constitutionality of the provincial Civil Forfeiture Act, the B.C. Lottery Corporation in various pro- ceedings, Teal Cedar Products before the Supreme Court of Canada, Baker Hughes in a product dispute set for five weeks of trial and the City of Vancouver in a major environmental proceeding. The firm prides itself on its pro bono services with its lawyers being honoured twice with the Allan Parker QC Award from Pro Bono B.C. Jensen Shawa Solomon Duguid Hawkes LLP Calgary jssbarristers.ca JSS Barristers regularly represents clients in complex and multi-party litigation. The firm offers a range of commercial legal counsel to parties involved in a wide spectrum of businesses and industries. The firm's lawyers litigate and arbitrate in the areas of business law, banking and financial services, product liability, power, tort, natural resources, securities, regulatory tribunals, insolvency, insurance, profes- sional negligence, serious personal injury, employment and commercial trade secrets and proprietary information. The team at JSS Barristers comes from widely diver - gent backgrounds and has considerable experience as trial and arbitral advocates. Its lawyers have appeared at all levels of the courts of Alberta and Canada, as well as before regulatory bodies such as the Al - berta Securities Commission, the Alberta Utilities Commission and the Law Society of Alberta. The lawyers at JSS Barristers have developed practices dealing with me- diations, arbitrations and other alternative dispute resolution processes in the firm. Lax O'Sullivan Lisus Gottlieb LLP Toronto lolg.ca Lax O'Sullivan Lisus Gottlieb LLP is a premier litigation law firm that has earned a reputation for excellence in advocacy and for innovative strategies for over 20 years, not only in successfully litigating and resolving disputes but in avoiding them as well. Its lawyers are consistently recognized for the quality of their counsel and are engaged in some of the most high- profile disputes in Canada across a range of industries. The firm provides a wide range of litigation and counsel services and has appeared before all levels of court in On - tario and Canada, administrative tribunals, regulatory tribunals and arbitration panels. The core of the firm's litigation practice is high-profile, bet-the-company, significant civil and commercial litigation involving private and public businesses, financial in - stitutions and regulatory bodies. The firm also practises as counsel in administrative proceedings, class actions, employment dis- putes, insolvency litigation, public law and constitutional issues, franchise issues, libel and slander actions and health law litiga- tion. The firm's clients are based in Canada, the United States and internationally. TOP Civil Litigation Boutiques Canadian Lawyer asked lawyers, in-house counsel and clients from across Canada to vote on the top civil litigation and criminal law boutiques. They were asked to rank their top firms from a preliminary list, with a chance to nominate a firm that was not included on the list. To be considered in the vote, firms were required to have at least 80 per cent of their business come from civil litigation or criminal law. The final rankings were determined through a points system, in which firms were rewarded on a sliding scale for the number of first to 10th-place votes received.

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