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- Fernandes Hearn LLP is pleased
to announce that effective September 1, 2008 John Phillips,
Neil Gill and Fred Fischer will be joining the firm.
Their arrival promises to add further depth and areas of specialty
to the firm.
John Phillips joins the firm as Counsel. John is
a litigation lawyer, called to the bars of Ontario and Alberta.
John is well experienced in civil litigation matters, having litigated
class actions, product liability and insurance disputes. John
has appeared before numerous tribunals and has extensive experience
in commercial arbitrations.
Neil Gill also joins the firm as Counsel. Also a litigation
lawyer, Neil has extensive commercial and insurance litigation
experience. Neil acts for clients in the transportation and leisure
industries often dealing with complex mass contract and tort disputes.
Fred Fischer joins the firm as an Associate lawyer. Fred
has a broad commercial litigation practice encompassing contract
disputes, employment matters, class actions and jurisdictional
disputes.
- Kim Stoll will be speaking at the Canadian
Transport Lawyers Association Annual meeting in Quebec City on
September 26th, 2008. Gordon Hearn will be the moderator
for the panel presentation, titled "Getting to the Bottom
of It: Official Investigations and Data Recorded Evidence".
- Gordon Hearn will be speaking at the 22nd
Annual Conference on Transportation Innovation and Cost Savings
at Richmond Hill, Ontario on September 24, 2008. Gordon will be
speaking on "Multimodalism and Related Contractual Problems:
The Canadian Experience".
- Rui Fernandes and Gordon Hearn will
be representing the firm at the CMI conference in Athens in October.
The Comite Maritime International, which was formally established
in 1897, is the oldest international organization in the maritime
law field. The CMI holds a conference for maritime lawyers from
around the world every four years.
- Rui Fernandes will be representing
the firm at the 5th International Marine Claims Conference to
be held in Dublin also in October. This year's conference is entitled
"Synergy or Antagonism."
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