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Jim Eamon, QC is a partner in Gowlings’ Calgary office, practising in the areas of commercial litigation, public and administrative law, insurance and professional liability and restructuring and insolvency.
Jim has practised civil litigation since 1986 with an emphasis on corporate, securities and commercial matters, corporate directors' and officers' responsibilities, professional negligence and disciplinary matters (primarily lawyers, accountants, and securities dealers/advisors), providing defence in securities commission proceedings, and public and administrative law.
Jim has appeared as sole counsel, co-counsel or second counsel in all levels of Courts in Alberta, the Supreme Court of Ontario, the Ontario Divisional Court, the Ontario Court of Appeal, the Superior Court of Quebec, the Federal Court of Canada, the Federal Court of Appeal, the Supreme Court of Canada, certain administrative tribunals, and various arbitration and mediation proceedings.
In addition to serving as an elected Bencher of the Law Society of Alberta, Jim has served extensively with Law Society committees. He is a former member of the Law Society's Practice Review, Conduct, and Joint Library Committees. He currently serves with the Audit, Credentials and Education, Finance, and Appeal Committees of the Law Society of Alberta. He is Co-chair of the Law Society's Conduct Process Task Force and Chair of the Pro Bono Policy Task Force. He serves other bodies involved in the administration of justice in Alberta: he is a member of the Rules of Court Committee, a Board Member of the Alberta Law Reform Institute, and a former member of the Alberta Law Reform Institute Rules of Court Project (General Rules Re-write Committee). James T. Eamon, Q.C., Some Recent Judicial and Legislative Developments in Alberta, in 2010 Negotiating and Drafting Major Business Agreements Conference (Toronto: Insight Information, January 26 - 27, 2010)
James T. Eamon, QC and Geoff Holub, See You in Court! Respondents’ Failure to Pay the Advance on Arbitration Costs, 12 Int. A.L.R. 168 (2009)
James T. Eamon, QC, Trial Preparation, in Litigation Boot Camp (Legal Education Society of Alberta, February, 2009)
James T. Eamon, QC, Legislative and Case Law Update: Developments of Note, in 2009 Negotiating and Drafting Major Business Agreements Conference (Calgary) (Toronto: Insight Information, January 27 – 28, 2009)
James T. Eamon, QC, Some Technology Considerations for Lawyers (December, 2008)
Course leader and moderator, 2nd E-Discovery Course (Calgary) (Toronto: Federated Press, November 19 – 20, 2008)
James T. Eamon, QC and John Kingman Phillips, Litigation Case Management: Impact of E-Discovery on Alberta Litigation Preparation and Practice, in 2nd E-Discovery Course (Calgary) (Toronto: Federated Press, November 19 – 20, 2008)
James T. Eamon, QC, Some Recent Judicial and Legislative Developments in Alberta, in 2008 Negotiating and Drafting Major Business Agreements Conference (Toronto: Insight Information, January 28 – 29, 2008)
James T. Eamon, General Rules Rewrite Committee recommendations concerning summary trials (Canadian Bar Association meeting, Calgary, 2005)
James T. Eamon, “Estey and the Commission of Inquiry on Certain Banking Operations”, in A Conference on Justice Willard Z. Estey’s Impact on Canadian Law, sponsored by the Estey Center for Law Economics & Trade and the Canadian Legal History Project, Faculty of Law, University of Manitoba (Saskatoon, November, 2003).
James T. Eamon, Review of Pross, Christie and Yogis, Commissions of Inquiry (1991), 29 Alta. Law Rev. 744. |
