Lexpert publishes 2015 US/Canada Cross-Border Guide – Litigation

This guide is delivered to more than 15,000 US senior in-house counsel and 10,000 lawyers in major US markets.
Lexpert publishes 2015 US/Canada Cross-Border Guide – Litigation
Lexpert published its US/Canada Cross-Border Guide – Litigation on November 20.

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The Lexpert Guide to the Leading US/Canada Cross-Border Litigation Lawyers in Canada (the Lexpert US/Canada Cross-Border Guide – Litigation) profiles peer-ranked lawyers in the following practice areas: Competition/Antitrust Law, Insolvency and Financial Restructuring, Corporate Commercial, Securities, Intellectual Property, Corporate Tax, Defamation and Media, Product Liability and Class Actions as well as International Commercial Arbitration, Class Actions, and International Trade Regulation.

In addition to information on Lexpert-ranked lawyers, the Lexpert US/Canada Cross-Border Guide – Litigation also identifies “Litigation Lawyers to Watch” – winners and finalists in the previous year’s Lexpert Rising Stars: Leading Lawyers Under 40 Awards.  A select list of Expert Witnesses is included in the publication as well.

This guide is delivered to more than 15,000 US senior in-house counsel and 10,000 lawyers in major US markets.

The publication also features the following journalist and law-firm authored articles geared to keeping attorneys and in-house counsel in the US informed of relevant business litigation issues in Canada:


A new legal duty for contracts
: Canada’s top court has enunciated a new legal duty in contract negotiations. Its effects are wide-ranging and controversial


No Haven for Class Actions
: Recent case law indicates Canada is not a forum for global class actions that some expected after it created a statutory cause of action


Canada’s IP Reforms
: Critics have labelled Canada an intellectual property outlier. Changes are afoot to address this controversial moniker


NAFTA Trade Disputes
: Canada is the country most frequently sued under NAFTA’s controversial Chapter 11 dispute settlement mechanism


An Open Book: Canadian Courts Favor Disclosure in Antitrust Cases
Two recent decisions indicate a trend in Canadian jurisprudence towards disclosure, making it clear that information in the Competition Bureau’s hands is not subject to absolute confidentiality. By Nikiforos Iatrou; Bronwyn Roe; Jeff Scorgie.


Barbarians at the Firewall: Data Breaches, Cross-Border Commerce and Notification Requirements in Canada and the United States
The fallout for companies from data breaches is immense, as consumer trust and investor confidence is eroded and the financial costs run into millions of dollars. By George J. Pollack