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w w w . C A N A D I A N L a w y e r m a g . c o m M A Y 2 0 1 6 39 Henein Hutchison LLP Toronto hhllp.ca Hunter Litigation Chambers Vancouver litigationchambers.com The firm traces its roots back to 2002. The senior partners, Marie Henein and Scott Hutchison, are both members of the Ameri- can College of Trial Lawyers and the Supreme Court of Canada Advocacy Institute. The 10-lawyer firm offers a range of services built around its experience and expertise in regulatory, criminal, and complex litigation. Associates are a mix of former Supreme Court of Canada and Court of Appeal law clerks, while clients include Telus Communications Co., the City of Windsor, Town of Tecumseh, former Ontario attorney general Michael Bryant, and other high-profile clients such as former CBC broadcaster Jian Ghomeshi. It is frequently consulted by in-house counsel to provide advice on internal corporate matters including internal inves- tigations and work with other firms on complex and cross-border litigation. Henein Hutchison recently acted for Rogers and Telus to successfully challenge overreaching "tower dump" warrants. It is counsel to a Big Four global accounting firm and an interna- tional pharmaceutical firm. It also advises a range of large corporations, government entities, and professional firms on internal investigations, anti-money-laundering compliance, and foreign corruption matters. The firm was founded in 2006 to provide litigation and arbitration services primarily in commercial disputes, class actions, employment and labour issues, public law litiga- tion, forestry law, and criminal and regulatory matters. The firm con- sists of 20 litigation counsel and two associate counsel, including most recently retired Supreme Court of Canada justice Marshall Rothstein. Some of the matters handled by counsel from the firm over the past year include the successful representation of John Furlong, former CEO of the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Committee, in a defama- tion case; the defence of a wrongful conviction lawsuit on behalf of the B.C. government; representation of Capital One Financial Corp. in a major class action; and representa- tion of the Shaughnessy Golf Club in a dispute with the Musqueam Indian Band, scheduled to be heard by the Supreme Court of Canada later this year. eri- ces Untitled-10 1 2016-04-13 4:15 PM