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Lynne Watt is a partner in Gowlings' Ottawa office. Her areas of practice include commercial litigation, copyright law, employment law, and estate litigation.
Lynne represents clients in a wide variety of litigation matters, at all levels of court. Her cases include contract disputes, enforcing proprietary rights and intellectual property, shareholder and executive disputes, post-employment issues (non-competition, breach of fiduciary duty, breach of confidence) and procurement claims. With respect to employment law, Lynne's practice includes employment litigation, drafting of employment agreements, and discrimination and disability rights complaints. She also has considerable experience in advising companies on labour and employment issues arising out of corporate mergers and acquisitions and the transfer or sale of businesses. Lynne also acts for several national not-for-profit organizations in estate litigation matters and appears regularly in proceedings before the Copyright Board of Canada.
She was an adjunct professor for a number of years at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law, teaching trial advocacy. She has also been an instructor for civil litigation in the Bar Admission Course, and is a frequent speaker and instructor in continuing legal education courses for the Advocates Society and for the CCLA.
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