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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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Rebecca Bush

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Position

Partner and National Business Leader, Insurance & Tort Liability Group

Career

Rebecca’s practice focuses on public authority litigation and complex tort litigation for large institutional clients, including:

  • Municipalities;
  • School boards and independent schools; and
  • Charities and not-for-profit organizations.

Rebecca is a partner in BLG’s Disputes Group. Her practice focuses on public authority litigation and complex tort litigation for large institutional clients. She has specialized expertise in crisis management, sexual violence investigations, incident response and defence and municipal and police liability. Rebecca also has expertise defending defamation claims and employment torts, including workplace-based psychological injury and mental distress damages claims.

Rebecca frequently provides advice on sensitive matters which are the subject of public and media scrutiny. She defends the reputational interests of her clients in policy and precedent setting cases.

Rebecca is the National Business Leader of the Insurance & Tort Liability Group.

Languages

English

Memberships

  • Chair, Trial Techniques Committee, Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section, American Bar Association
  • Diversity Chair, Business Litigation Committee, Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section, American Bar Association
  • Vice-Chair, Corporate Counsel Committee, Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section, American Bar Association
  • Vice-Chair, Women Trial Lawyers Task Force, Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section, American Bar Association
  • Member, The Advocates’ Society
  • Member, Law Society of Ontario
  • Member, Canadian Bar Association
  • Member, Ontario Bar Association

Education

  • Certificate in International Business Transactions and International Litigation, University of San Diego’s Institute of International & Comparative Law , King’s College London, 2003
  • LLB, University of Windsor, 2001
  • BA (Hons.), University of Toronto, 1998

Bar Admission

  • Ontario, 2002

Personal

  • Member, “Give A Day” Campaign Committee

Lawyer Rankings

Canada > Insurance

In August 2023, Borden Ladner Gervais LLP strengthened its non-contentious insurance offering with the arrival of new corporate and regulatory insurance lead Rick Da Costa (Toronto) from Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP. The practice continues to be weighted towards contentious work, with its broad claims expertise spanning a range of product liability, personal injury, D&O and municipal liability cases, among others. Rebecca Bush (Toronto) leads the insurance and tort liability group and specializes in public authority litigation and tort litigation. Other recommended litigators include Kevin McGivney (Toronto), who defends police services and municipalities in claims; specialized disputes head Graham Walker (Vancouver); and Patrick Heinsen (Calgary), who focuses on professional liability.

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