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Mr David Wotherspoon

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Work Department

Litigation and Dispute Resolution group

Position

David Wotherspoon is a partner in and lead of our Litigation and Dispute Resolution group in Vancouver.

Career

With a focus on corporate and commercial disputes, David’s practice encompasses all areas of litigation and dispute resolution. He has extensive experience in matters that relate to injunctions and Anton Piller orders, defamation and free speech, intellectual property and software disputes, crisis management, professional liability, shareholder disputes and fraud investigations.

David brings more than 25 years of experience and has acted for large institutional clients in a broad range of industry sectors, as well as many early-stage companies and individuals, with particular experience in areas such as technology and intellectual property. David’s experience in commercial litigation is guided by the understanding that litigation must first serve the client’s business purposes.

David is extensively engaged in pro bono cases, taking on several opportunities to represent those who would otherwise have limited access to the justice system. Many of his cases have involved protecting businesses that have been targeted in a way that requires intense and swift action and often injunctions to safeguard clients’ rights.

In the last two years David has received three prestigious awards:

• Recipient of Lexpert Zenith Award “Celebrating Change Agents in Law”, 2019
• Recipient of the Harry Rankin QC Pro Bono Award, 2019
• Named one of Canada’s Top 25 Most Influential Lawyers in the Corporate Commercial category by Canadian Lawyer, 2018

Languages

English

Memberships

• Director of Child Redress International
• Member, British Columbia Bar, 1992
• Member, Canadian Bar Association
• Volunteer, Pivot Legal Society
• Past Governor, Collingwood School
• Past Governor, Emily Carr University of Art and Design

Education

University of British Columbia, 1991, LLB

University of British Columbia, 1988, MA Psychology

Simon Fraser University, 1986, BA (Honours), Psychology