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Lexpert/Thomson Reuters' Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory, since 2019 - Repeatedly Recommended practitioner in corporate commercial litigation
Legal Media Group's Benchmark Canada, Litigation star in commercial, intellectual property and product liability
Stuart has represented
Stuart regularly teaches, writes, and lectures on subjects including trial and appellate advocacy, intellectual property issues, privilege, class actions and arbitration. He has served as a member of the Executive of the Ontario Bar Association’s Class Actions Section.
Brendan Brammall and Stuart Svonkin, “The Loss of Chance Doctrine in Canadian Law”
Annual Review of Civil Litigation 2018, The Honourable Mr. Justice Todd L. Archibald, Editor
(Thomson Reuters Canada, 2018)
"Infringement by Accident? Subconscious Copying in the Digital Age"
Technology and Law Lecture Series, University of Ottawa Faculty of Law
November 23, 2011
Ontario’s Commercial Mediation Act
The Six-Minute Business Lawyer 2011, Law Society of Upper Canada
June 13, 2011
Navigating the Limits and Restrictions of Interventions in Constitutional Challenges and Charter Cases
The Canadian Institute’s Advanced Training on Charter and Constitutional Law and Litigation, Ottawa
May 16, 2011
Tips on Drafting Arbitration Clauses
The Lawyers Weekly, Vol. 30, No. 37
February 11, 2011
Commercial Contract Dispute Resolution
Essentials of Commercial Contracts Course, Federated Press
May 27-28, 2010
Questioning the Conventional Wisdom on Arbitration
The Lawyers Weekly, vol. 29, no. 37
February 12, 2010
We're Not in Kansas Anymore: A Brief Guide to Litigation Procedure and Practice in Ontario
American Lawyer Media's Law.com
November 11, 2008
Making and Defending a Case for Aggravated/Punitive Damages in Commercial Disputes
Litigating Commercial Damages, Osgoode Hall Law School Professional Development Conference (with Earl A. Cherniak, Q.C.)
June 2008
A Primer on Ontario Oral Discovery for U.S. Lawyers
American Lawyer Media's Law.com
December 19, 2007
Intellectual Property Damages
Eighth Annual Alliance for Excellence in Investigative and Forensic Accounting Conference
November 2006
Media and Canadian Civil Liberties Association Challenge Searches of Ottawa Newspaper and Reporter
MLRC MediaLawLetter
September 2006
Recent Developments in the Law of Access—2001
3 Communications Law 2001, Practicing Law Institute
2001
Jews Against Prejudice: American Jews and the Fight for Civil Liberties
Columbia University Press
1997
February 5, 2013: Stuart Svonkin and Sarah Whitmore argue before Human Rights Tribunal regarding a school board’s policy for distribution of religious materials, in Sun News
July 25, 2011: Computer forensic experts required in many cases involving electronic information, says Stuart Svonkin in Law Times
November 10, 2006: The significance of the O’Neill v. Canada ruling is huge in terms of its practical effect, says Stuart Svonkin in Lawyers Weekly
October 20, 2006: Section 4 of Canada's Security and Information Act was impermissibly overbroad, says Stuart Svonkin in The Globe and Mail
August 24, 2006: Canada's Security of Information Act violates Canadians' fundamental rights, Stuart Svonkin tells CBC, Ottawa Citizen and Ottawa Sun
The Advocates' Society
Ontario Bar Association
Canadian Bar Association
Harvard Club of Toronto
Ontario, 2003
Massachusetts, 1999
JD (cum laude), 1999
Harvard Law School
PhD (With Distinction), 1995
Columbia University
BA (High Honors, Phi Beta Kappa), 1989
Wesleyan University