Bench Strength of Davies’ Women Litigators Recognized in Benchmark Litigation’s 2023 Rankings

A testament to our established and up-and-coming first-chair talent, Davies women were honoured in multiple categories*:

• Andrea Burke (Litigation Star, Top 100 Women Litigators)
• Chantelle Cseh (Litigation Star, Top 100 Women Litigators, 40 & Under List)
• Marie-France Dompierre (Future Star)
• Sandra Forbes (Litigation Star, Top 100 Women Litigators)
• Julie Girard (Future Star, 40 & Under List)
• Maureen Littlejohn (Litigation Star, Top 100 Women Litigators)
• Kristine Spence (Future Star)

Our women litigators have worked on the following:

Litigation Matters

• Apotex – defending anticompetitive conduct class action and multi-billion dollar sale to SK Capital
• Barrick Gold – defending multi-billion dollar securities class actions in Ontario and Québec
• Canadian Real Estate Association – defending Federal Court class action challenging commission structure of residential real estate
• Centerra Gold / Kyrgyz Republic – court approval in contested plan of arrangement
• Continental Casualty Company – multi-billion dollar national class action
• Defending national bread price-fixing class actions
• Delta Airlines – defending constrained airline capacity class action
• Lerøy Seafood – defending Federal Court farmed salmon pricing class action
• LG Chem – lithium battery price-fixing class action
• McKesson – defending opioid class actions across Canada
• Reichmann – complex oppression and breaches of fiduciary duties class action regarding family owned enterprises and trusts
• Sherman Estate – precedent-setting Supreme Court case regarding privacy
• SK hynix – defeated certification of a Federal Court class action
• StarKist – defeated certification of an Ontario class action

Pro Bono Matters

• Acted for sexual assault victims of former ski coach
• Advising Canadian Women’s National Soccer Team Players Association in Canada Soccer dispute
• Acted for the Canadian Chamber of Commerce in a Supreme Court intervention in the Heller v Uber case

Advancing the Profession and Community Involvement

• Member of the Board and Chair of the Governance and Risk Management Committee of Earth Rangers, North America’s largest children’s conservation organization
• Former Ambassador of the Ontario Justice Education Network, a not-for-profit developing educational tools to build the legal capabilities of young people
• Former Chair and Member of the Board of Directors of the Toronto Summer Music Festival

We are proud of our women litigators’ accomplishments. Congratulations to all!

*Benchmark’s Litigation Stars and Future Stars were announced in the spring. Read more.