If you want to enforce your rights before the courts and administrative tribunals, nobody beats our litigation department. Our litigators are a diverse group of multi-talented individuals who have represented our clients at every level of our judicial system. In many cases, their experience also includes mediation and arbitration.

We place greater emphasis on goals and results than on procedures and technicalities. Our approach has always been to find a practical solution to problems. In many cases, a victory in the courtroom is neither cost nor time effective. A good attorney can guide his or her client through the different alternatives available, without losing sight of what is really at stake.

At Spiegel Sohmer, you will find litigators who have dealt with complex issues in the following areas:

• commercial litigation and extraordinary remedies,
  
  
• insurance law (aviation, damages, professional liability, property, reinsurance and excess liability insurance),
  
  
• shareholder disputes,
  
  
• disputes relating to successions,
  
  
• franchisor/franchisee relationships,
  
  
• civil liability (product liability, bodily and psychological injuries, material damages and economic loss),
  
  
• professional liability of doctors, lawyers and accountants,
  
  
• labour law, employment law, unjust dismissal, claims of discrimination, sexual harassment, breach of fiduciary duties,
  
  
• construction law, at both the technical and contractual or regulatory levels,
  
  
• environmental law, site contamination and clean-up,
  
  
• aviation law, accident liability, Canadian and international laws,
  
  
• family law and matrimonial law.