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Alan D'Silva
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Law Practice
Alan D'Silva is a partner in the Toronto office and has a diverse commercial litigation practice. His core practice areas include defence of class actions, corporate/commercial disputes, securities litigation, shareholder/oppression cases, large insurance litigation, accountants' and auditors' negligence, professional negligence, directors' and officers' claims, product liability, banking, software and computer disputes, and pension-related matters.
Alan has acted as counsel in more than 130 publicly reported cases and has extensive experience at all levels of court and before administrative tribunals. He has frequently appeared as counsel in Canadian appellate courts, including more than 50 appeals in the Ontario Divisional Court and Court of Appeal and seven recent cases in the Supreme Court of Canada. Alan acted as senior counsel on two of the Top 10 Business Cases in Canada for 2009, as selected by Lexpert.
Alan is considered a leading practitioner in a number of areas of law, and is listed and recognized in the following publications:
- The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory 2010 as a leading practitioner consistently recommended in Litigation - Commercial Insurance.
- The International Who's Who of Business Lawyers 2010.
- The 2007 Lexpert Guide of the Leading Canada/U.S. Cross-border Litigation Lawyers in Canada for Corporate Commercial, Class Action and Securities.
- The 2006 Lexpert American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada as one of the top "25 Litigators to Watch".
- The 2010 PLC Which Lawyer? recommended in Insurance: contentious.
- The International Who's Who of Insurance & Reinsurance Lawyers 2010.
- PLC's Cross-border Insurance Handbook 2009/10.
- The 2008 Legal Media Group's Guide to the World's Leading Insurance and Reinsurance Lawyers.
He is also considered an expert on such diverse areas as: the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, human rights law, and directors' and officers' liability.
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Professional Activities
- Member of The Advocates' Society and the Law Society of Upper Canada
- Adjunct professor, University of Toronto Faculty of Law, appeals and judicial reviews (1998-99)
- Adjunct professor, Faculty of Law, University of Western Ontario Law School, class actions (2009-10)
- Guest lecturer, University of Windsor and University of Western Ontario Faculty of Law and Carleton University
- Former instructor at the Law Society's Bar Admission Course, civil litigation and legal writing (1992-98)
- Former instructor at Osgoode Hall, Intensive Trial Advocacy Course
- Legal counsel at the Ontario Human Rights Commission (1990-91)
- Trained and certified as a mediator, The Advocates' Society/Harvard Program (1998)
- Member of the board of directors, The Advocates' Society and chair of a Standing Committee and several task forces (2006-09)
- Chair, The Advocates' Society Task Force on the Report on Retention of Women in the Profession (2008)
- Executive Committee OBA Insurance Sector (2006-07)
- Director, Sir William Campbell Foundation (2008-09)
- Member of the Equity Advisory Group, Law Society of Upper Canada (2007-09)
- Member of Stikeman Elliott's (Toronto) Management Committee
- Past president of a large Ratepayers' Association
- Former member of several non-profit community and charitable boards
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Education
University of Ottawa (LL.B. cum laude 1987), Université Laval (French-language programme 1984), Carleton University (BA with distinction 1983).
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Bar Admission
Ontario, 1989
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