Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

Partner and National Business Leader, Insurance & Tort Liability Group

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.

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• 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

• 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

• Member, "Give A Day" Campaign Committee