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Adair Morse LLP

www.adairmorse.com

Contents 1 General Info 2 Practice Areas 3 Notable Cases 4 Number of Lawyers 5 Student Contact

[edit] General Info

ADAIR MORSE LLP, one of Canada’s leading specialty law firms of expert trial lawyers, is led by two of the country’s foremost trial counsel, Geoff Adair and Jerome Morse, each an elected Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and each identified by their peers (as noted in LEXPERT www.lexpert.com) as leading counsel in a number of practice areas including product liability, commercial insurance, personal injury, professional liability, medical malpractice, and others.

The ADAIR MORSE LLP team of 21 lawyers is dedicated to understanding client objectives and exercising sound judgment to provide timely and reliable case assessment. Our lawyers leverage their considerable experience and reputation as trial lawyers to obtain the best results for clients whether by way of settlement or verdict. We are always mindful of the clients’ need for both excellent and cost effective advocacy.

ADAIR MORSE LLP believes that the true measure of a litigation firm lies in its demonstrated abilities as revealed by actual cases it has argued on behalf of clients. To this end we list a sampling of some of the many leading cases ADAIR MORSE LLP lawyers have litigated over the past few years.

[edit] Practice Areas

ADAIR MORSE LLP is a civil litigation firm which specializes in the following practice areas:

• MAJOR TORT LITIGATION
• COMMERCIAL INSURANCE
• PRODUCT LIABILITY
• MEDICAL MALPRACTICE
• APPELLATE ADVOCACY
• COMMERCIAL LITIGATION
• CLASS ACTIONS
• LIBEL AND SLANDER
• PROFESSIONAL NEGLIGENCE
• EMPLOYMENT LAW
• ESTATE LITIGATION

[edit] Notable Cases

• AIDS2006 Toronto Local Host
• Alie v. Bertrand & Frere Construction Co. (2002), 62 O.R. (3d) 345 (C.A.)
• Budd v. Patterson [2002] 62 O.R. (3d) 715
• DeJong v. Owen Sound General Marine Hospital [1997] 31 O.R. (3d) 78 (C.A.)
• Dumoulin v. Ontario [2005] O.J. No. 3961 (S.C.J.)
• G.M. and Baby G.S. et al V. Dr. Chu et al [2006] O.J. No. 2762 (Sup. Ct. J.)
• Gould Estate v. Stoddart Publishing Co. (1998), 39 O.R. 549 (C.A.)
• Hanis v. University of Western Ontario, [2005] O.J. No. 5289 (S.C.J.), leave to appeal to the Ontario Court of Appeal sought.
• Hollinger International Inc. v. American Home Assurance Co., [2005] O.J. No. 3244 (S.C.J.)
• Idomo Furniture Company Limited v. City of Toronto, Catholic World Youth Day
• Isen v. Simm [2005] 4 F.C.R. 563 (F.C.A.), leave to appeal granted [2005] S.C.C.A. No. 322 (S.C.C.) (decision under reserve)
• John Doe v. Bennett and Roman Catholic Episcopal Corporation of St. George’s [2004] 1 S.C.R. 436
• Krever Commission
• Martin v. Goldfarb and Farano Green (1998) 41 O.R. (3d) 161 (Ont. C.A)
• Mortimer v. Cameron [1994] 17 O.R. (3d) 1 (C.A.)
• Olivieri v. Commission of the European Communities et al
• Osborne v. County of Bruce [1999] 39 M.V.R. (3d) 159
• Shibley V. St. Joseph’s Health Centre et al 2003 WL 23181927 (Ont. S.C.J.), 2003 Carswell Ont 5576 (appeal of arbitral decision), [2004] O.J. No. 470 (costs ruling), [2004] O.J. 952 (disposition re leave to appeal)
• Thomas v. Bell Helmets (1996) O.J. No. 1395; (1999) O.J. No. 4293 (Ont.C.A.)
• Vytlingam (Litigation Guardian of) v. Farmer (2005), 76 O.R. (3d) 1 (C.A.), leave to appeal granted [2005] S.C.C.A. No. 376 (S.C.C.)

[edit] Number of Lawyers

19

[edit] Student Contact

Krista Springstead kspringstead@adairmorse.com