McEwan Partners brings together Ken McEwan, KC, Bob Cooper, KC, and Emily Kirkpatrick, leading Chambers Canada and Lexpert-ranked litigators, to lead a corporate, commercial, and securities litigation boutique. Our lawyers include former judges, former judicial clerks and members of the American College of Trial Lawyers, the International Society of Barristers, and International Academy of Trial Lawyers. Our lawyers have delivered successful results for clients in trials and appeals across Canada, including significant victories at the Supreme Court of Canada.
Our lawyers are consistently recognized by peer review agencies including Lexpert, Benchmark, Lexology – Who’s Who Legal, Chambers Canada, The Legal 500 Canada, The Best Lawyers in Canada, and Martindale-Hubbell. Recent industry highlights include Benchmark BC Firm of the Year, Benchmark Canadian Litigation Boutique of the Year, Lexpert Leading Firm in Litigation – Corporate Commercial and Litigation - Securities, Lexpert's Leading 500 Cross-Border Lawyers: A Guide to Doing Business in Canada, Benchmark Canadian Trial Lawyer of the Year, and Canada’s Top 50 Trial Lawyers.
In addition to all our lawyers acting as counsel, our senior lawyers also arbitrate and mediate disputes. Two are members of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and one an author of Commercial Arbitration in Canada and contributing author to A Practitioner’s Guide to Commercial Litigation.
Our lawyers are active in the legal community, regularly contributing to publications and to student and continuing education programs, including authoring the fourth edition of Sopinka on the Trial of an Action and serving as an adjunct professor of law teaching advanced trial advocacy at the University of British Columbia. Our lawyers are involved in legal organizations, including the Canadian Bar Association (BC Branch) and the Advocates’ Society, both as members, on committees and in leadership roles, including serving on the Board of Directors of the Advocates’ Society.
Although we now practice as a litigation boutique, many of our lawyers have experience in full service corporate commercial firms working closely with business lawyers on complex securities and corporate litigation and arbitration. We are focused on client results, equipped for both complex and straightforward matters, and have the experience and judgment to know the difference.
