Bench Strength of Davies’ Women Litigators Recognized in Benchmark Litigation’s 2023 Rankings
August 8, 2023
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.