Paul McGivern is a senior litigator acting exclusively on behalf of plaintiffs in medical negligence cases, with an emphasis on complex catastrophic cases such as birth trauma, spinal cord, and brain injury cases. The Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory recommends Paul as a leader in medical malpractice cases, and he has been named in The Best Lawyers in Canada from 2006–25. He has been named the Lawyer of the Year for 2016 and 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2024 by Best Lawyers. He has a unique background of 17 years as medical malpractice defence counsel. Paul has been lead counsel in hundreds of medical malpractice cases. He has appeared as lead counsel before every level of court, including the Supreme Court of Canada (most recently in Ediger v. Johnston, 2013 SCC 18 and Cojocaru v. British Columbia Women’s Hospital, 2013 SCC 30). He was an adjunct professor at UBC for 25 years. He has also chaired continuing education programs focusing on medical legal issues. Paul is a member of the Trial Lawyers Association of BC and the Plaintiff's Medical Negligence Litigation Group, and is a member of the Birth Trauma Litigation Group of the AAJ. He is a founding member of the Birth Trauma Litigation Alliance, an association of leading birth trauma litigation counsel from across Canada.
