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36 M A Y 2 0 1 8 w w w . C A N A D I A N L a w y e r m a g . c o m listed alphabetically TOP 10 CIVIL LITIGATION BOUTIQUES Babin Bessner Spry LLP, Toronto babinbessnerspry.com DMG Advocates LLP, Toronto dmgadvocates.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 Commissioner of Competition and several major national and local securities dealers. Its prac- tice areas include securities litigation and regulation, corporate governance, director and officer liability, shareholder oppression, 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 is a relatively new, Toronto-based firm. Its lawyers have decades of experience 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 construc- tion. They also have knowledge and specialization in the laws relating to product liability, shareholder disputes, class action defence, franchise litigation, commercial arbitration, e-discovery, defamation and privacy/cybersecurity. Ryder Gilliland is a partner at the firm as well as president of the Media Lawyers' Association and adjunct professor at Ryerson Uni- versity, where he teaches media law. Gilliland also advises newspapers, publishers and broadcasters on defamation law, publication bans, sealing orders, pri- vacy and copyright. handling documents, document produc- tion, document discovery; the costs can be extraordinary," he says. "At the end of the day, the senior lawyer or the senior and the junior have to know what's in those docu- ments and that's the ultimate challenge, how to separate the wheat from the chaff. And you know there's a lot of chaff," he says. What distinguishes Nathanson's shop, he thinks, is "practical and candid advice," a strategy to deal with the case efficiently and clear advice on risks and opinions, he says. "It's not uncommon to find [that] a client gets some pretty bullish advice early on and then within the shadow of the trial the lawyer says you know this is going to be very difficult," Nathanson says, "And the client says, 'I've been at this for two or three years and I'm now being told for the first time that there are problems or dif- ficulties. This isn't right!'" TOP BOUTIQUES stockwoods.ca Smart Litigation. Stockwoods is proud to once again be selected as one of Canada's top 10 litigation boutiques by Canadian Lawyer. WE ACCEPT THIS 4 - PEAT ON LEBRON'S BEHALF. ntitled-5 1 2018-04-23 2:06 PM

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