Jim Bunting is a partner in the litigation group.  Jim has a broad practice in civil litigation and has been involved in a variety of proceedings involving contractual disputes, insolvency issues, shareholder and oppression remedy actions, defamation, executive employment, antidumping-trade matters, estates and trust law, and product liability disputes.  Jim has appeared as counsel before the Ontario Court of Appeal, the Ontario Court (Superior Court, Commercial Court and Divisional Court), the Supreme Court of the Yukon Territory, the Court of Queen's Bench (Saskatchewan) and the Federal Court of Appeal.  Jim has also acted as counsel in a number of private arbitrations and mediations.
 
Jim has recently acted as counsel for defendants in a range of consumer class actions and in a number of complex matters involving take-over bids and other change of control transactions, including transactions involving Xstrata and Bolivar Gold Corporation.

Jim also has a breadth of experience with sports-related disputes.  He has acted on behalf of a number of athletes in respect of team selection appeals and is on the Sport Dispute Resolution Centre of Canada List of Legal Representatives.  Jim also clerked for the Court of Arbitration for Sport during the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympic Games.
 
Jim serves on the Board of Directors of Camp Oochigeas, a summer camp for children with cancer, and is an adjunct professor at the University of Western Ontario, where he teaches Civil Procedure.  Jim also sits on the Steering Committee of the Young Canadian Arbitration Practitioners.  He received a B.A. in 1999 and an LL.B. in 2002, both from the University of Western Ontario.  He became a partner in 2006.

Jim is the co-author of "There’s a New Sheriff in Town: A Review of the United States Anti-Doping Agency", a paper published by Sweet and Maxwell in the International Sports Law Review.

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