James A. Woods

Senior partner of the firm. Since 1976, Mtre. Woods has practiced exclusively in litigation and arbitration and has pleaded at all levels of the federal and provincial courts in Ontario and Quebec including the Supreme Court of Canada. Member of the Faculty of Law and lecturer in civil litigation at McGill University. Author of Cases and Materials in Civil Procedure (Carswell Legal Publications, 1987) and numerous articles and papers, including “Measuring the Results of Class Actions”, International Bar Association Conference on Class actions, Rome, 2007. Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and Litigation Counsel of America and Federation of Defence and Corporate Counsel.. Member of the panel of arbitrators of the American Arbitration Association. Member of CIA, CBA, QBA, LSUC, LSBC, LSA, LSEW, ABA, IBA, LCIA, AAJ, FDCC and CCAC. Called to the Bars of Quebec in 1976 and Ontario in 1979, Alberta and British Columbia in 2006 and England and Wales in 2007.