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Lax O'Sullivan Lisus Gottlieb LLP Offices
145 KING ST. WEST, SUITE 2750
TORONTO, ON M5H 1J8
Canada
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Mr Jonathan Lisus
Work Department
Corporate Commercial Litigation, Infrastructure-related Litigation, Product Liabiliy, Class Actions, Oppression Remedies, Franchise Litigation, Securities Litigation
Position
Jonathan’s practice focuses on commercial and public law trial and appellate litigation. He has deep experience with infrastructure and P3-related litigation, class actions for plaintiffs and defendants, product liability, aboriginal land claims, oppression remedies, and securities litigation. He appears as counsel in courts and arbitral tribunals across the country and the Supreme Court of Canada.
Jonathan is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and the International Academy of Trial Lawyers. He is a member of the Chief Justice of Ontario’s Advisory Committee on Professionalism and a member of the Supreme Court Advocacy Institute. He is a Director of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association and regularly acts as Special Counsel on constitutional challenges to government actions.
Jonathan has been lead counsel in many landmark decisions in the area of class actions, professional liability, public and constitutional law, and commercial litigation. He has tried over 90 cases to judgment and argued over 55 appeals in provincial appellate courts and the Supreme Court of Canada.
Memberships
- Chief Justice of Ontario Advisory Committee on Professionalism, Member
- Supreme Court Advocacy Institute, Member
- Canadian Civil Liberties Association, Board of Directors and Executive Committee
- American College of Trial Lawyers, Fellow
- International Academy of Trial Lawyers, Board of Directors and Admissions Committee
- North York General Hospital Foundation, Board of Governors
- Lawyers International Food Enterprise, co-founder and director
Education
- Called to the Ontario Bar, 1992
- LL.B., Osgoode Hall Law School
Lawyer Rankings
Canada > Dispute resolution: Ontario
(Hall of Fame)Toronto-based boutique Lax O’Sullivan Lisus Gottlieb LLP is a leading player in the Ontario disputes space. The ‘outstanding team of lawyers’ is well-versed in representing both domestic and international clients in complex commercial mandates. Practice co-head Matthew Gottlieb
specializes in corporate and commercial disputes, and insolvency, fraud and securities litigation. Leading alongside him, Jonathan Lisus has focused his practice on infrastructure and P3 disputes, product liability claims and securities litigation. Additional key litigators include Crawford Smith, Andrew Winton and Shaun Laubman. Nadia Campion handles shareholder oppression applications and estates matters and is lauded as ‘completely fearless’ and an ‘outstanding litigator’. Paul Fruitman is noted for his work on construction, employment health disputes, while Rahool Agarwal majors on proxy fights, director and officer liability, and complex fraud cases.