Full Profile
Ellen is a partner in the Toronto commercial litigation group, dealing with a range of complex issues and disputes, with a particular focus on cyber security and privacy issues.
Ellen regularly advises clients in a wide range of security and privacy events including ransomware attacks, cyber extortion, sophisticated phishing and social engineering fraud schemes and inadvertent security breaches by employees. She is able to assist clients with responding to every aspect of these events including immediate containment and remediation of the event, notification of affected parties and defending any subsequent regulatory proceedings or litigation which may be commenced.
Ellen was called to the bar in 2006 after obtaining her Juris Doctor from the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto in 2005. Ellen began her career as an associate at another large firm prior to joining the Commercial Litigation Group in Clyde and Co’s Toronto office.
Ellen is well-versed in dealing with complex commercial litigation, including securities litigation, products liability claims, class action defence and directors’ and officers’ liability.
Ellen also has considerable advocacy experience and has appeared before both the trial and appellate levels of court in Ontario and British Columbia and has appeared as co-counsel in two cases at the Supreme Court of Canada. Ellen has also appeared before various administrative tribunals, such as the Ontario Securities Commission, and is experienced in both domestic and international arbitration.
Ellen has guest lectured at the Faculty of Law, University of Montréal in the Juris Doctor program in North American common law.
Admissions
Education
Presentations
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Speaker, Practice Management and the Rules of Professional Conduct conference, The Commons Institute, Toronto, January 2014.
Publications
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"Overview on Canada" in Practical Law Company's Insurance & Reinsurance Multijurisdictional Guide, 2013/14 and 2014/15 editions, co-authored with Stuart Carruthers (March 2013/2014).
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“Not for the Faint of Heart: Recent developments in Directors' and Officers' Liability" in Lexpert's Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada, co-authored with Adrian Lang (November 2010).
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"Filtering Fact from Fiction: A Defence Perspective on Commonly Held Misconceptions Regarding Class Actions in Canada," co-authored with Adrian Lang (April 2010).
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"Court of Appeal for Ontario reformulates the test for assuming jurisdiction over foreign defendants" in Litigation Update (March 2010).
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“Cost Control: Taylor v. The Attorney General of Canada" in Class Action Defence Quarterly (March 2008).
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"Class Actions in the Federal Court: Hinton v. Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration)" in Class Action Defence Quarterly (March 2008).
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"Class Actions, Corporate Directors and the Comforts of Adequate Insurance," co-authored with Peter Howard (February 2008).
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"Enforceability of National Classes: The New Landscape" in Class Action Defence Quarterly, co-authored with Adrian Lang (September 2006).
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"Protecting Canadian Plaintiffs in International Class Actions: The Need for a Principled Approach in Light of Currie v. McDonald's Restaurants of Canada Ltd." in The Canadian Class Action Review (December 2005).
