Lorne Morphy is counsel to our Toronto office.  As a senior trial and appellate counsel, his practice involves business litigation, including corporate and commercial litigation, competition law, professional negligence and defamation.  He has appeared as counsel before all levels of the courts and tribunals in Ontario and in other provinces as well as in the Supreme Court of Canada and the Federal Court.  He also acts as an arbitrator and mediator.
  
Lorne was elected a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers in 1982 and is an honorary overseas member of the Commercial Bar Association (England and Wales).  He served as a part-time commissioner at the OSC from 2001 - 2005.  Lorne is recognized by the Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory as a repeatedly recommended practitioner in professional liability, securities litigation and commercial trial litigation and a consistently recommended practitioner in corporate commercial litigation.  He is also recognized in LEXPERT/American Lawyer Media's Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada for corporate commercial litigation.  Lorne is mentioned in LEXPERT Magazine's The Best Lawyers in Canada in the practice areas of alternative dispute resolution, corporate/commercial litigation, directors/officers liability, international arbitration and securities.

Lorne has represented a U.S. manufacturer and distributor of automobile products in a successful appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada on the issue of vicarious liability; a major Canadian bank on a successful appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada on a capital gains issue under the Income Tax Act; a multinational manufacturer of consumer products in a multimillion dollar claim for damages for patent infringement; an international corporation in Charter challenges to the Supreme Court of Canada involving the powers of compulsory investigation conferred by the Competition Act; an Ontario corporation that suffered major environmental damage; Canadian corporations charged with pollution offences; a Canadian bank on an appeal to the Ontario Court of Appeal on an issue of contractual interpretation; a Canadian oil corporation on an issue of retail price maintenance under the Competition Act; and a prominent Canadian food company on an arbitration and in subsequent court proceedings involving an oppression dispute between principal shareholders.

Lorne is a frequent speaker in legal education programs of The Law Society of Upper Canada, The Advocates' Society and the Canadian Bar Association and has also participated as a faculty member for numerous advocacy training programs.  Lorne obtained his LL.B. in 1960 and LL.M. in 1997 from Osgoode Hall Law School.

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