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Borden Ladner Gervais LLP Offices

Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
Bay Adelaide Centre, East Tower
22 Adelaide Street West, Suite 3400
Toronto, ON M5H 4E3
Canada
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Kathleen McDormand

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Work Department

Dispute Resolution: Ontario

Position

Partner and Lead, Team North

Career

Kathleen is the regional group manager for the Ottawa Disputes Group (commercial litigation and construction). She practises as a commercial litigator and an estate litigator.

She is experienced in all aspects of estate and incapacity litigation (guardianship applications, applications seeking removal of trustees, applications to pass accounts, will challenges, etc.). Kathleen has acted as counsel for trustees and for beneficiaries. She has extensive mediation experience, both as counsel and as mediator in estates matters.

As the lead of BLG’s Team North, Kathleen works with a team of lawyers from across the country who practice in all areas of law and are familiar with the unique needs of Northern-based clients. Kathleen also has expertise in disputes for matters in Nunavut and has several Nunavut-based clients.

Languages

English

Memberships

  • Member, Steering Committee, Cambridge Forum for Senior Estates & Trusts Practitioners – 2nd Generation
  • Member, Awards Committee, County of Carleton Law Association​
  • Trustee, Board of Trustees, Booth University College
  • Member, Law Society of Ontario
  • Member, Canadian Bar Association and Ontario Bar Association
  • Member, OBA Trusts and Estates Law Section Executive
  • Member, Law Society of Nunavut
  • Member, County of Carleton Law Association
  • Member, Society of Trust and Estates Practitioner

Education

  • Workplace Mental Health Leadership Certificate, Faculty of Health Sciences, Queen’s University, 2018
  • Program on Negotiation: Mediating Disputes Course, Harvard Law School Executive Program, June 2018
  • Accelerated Leadership Program, Harvard Law School, March 2018
  • Business Leadership for Women Lawyers Program, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, 2016
  • TEP,
  • LLB, University of Ottawa, 2001
  • B.Soc.Sci. (Hons.), University of Ottawa, 1998

Bar Admission

  • Nunavut, 2010
  • Ontario, 2002

Personal

  • Youth Programs Coordinator, Salvation Army Ottawa Citadel
  • Past Chair, Board of Governors, Ottawa Grace Manor
  • Past Member, Camp Quality Eastern Ontario (camp for children living with cancer)

Lawyer Rankings

Canada > Dispute resolution: Ontario

Borden Ladner Gervais LLP‘s Ontario disputes practice specializes in diverse contentious mandates that include class actions and white collar defence, commercial fraud investigations, competition litigation and banking and securities litigation. Companies from the retail, mining, financial services and automotive sectors routinely feature on the group’s client roster. Three partners share leadership: David Di Paolo and Nadia Effendi are based at the Toronto office, while Kathleen McDormand is based in Ottawa. Di Paolo specializes in securities litigation, class actions and shareholder disputes; Effendi majors on class actions, and administrative, regulatory and constitutional law; McDormand covers breach of contract cases, professional negligence matters and banking litigation matters.

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