About the Course Chairs
Simon Coval is a partner with Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP in Vancouver and is the firm’s Manager of Commercial Litigation and Dispute Resolution Group. A frequent lecturer and instructor on commercial litigation, his broad commercial practice has a particular focus on business disputes involving: contracts, economic torts, real estate, commercial leases, companies and partnerships, civil fraud and white-collar crime, and injunctions.
Simon has been selected by Best Lawyers in Canada for Corporate and Commercial Litigation and rated ''high to very high legal ability'' by the Martindale-Hubbell legal rating service. Simon was called to the BC bar in 1993. Prior to joining the firm, he clerked for The Honourable Chief Justice McEachern and The Honourable Mr. Justice Cumming at the BC Court of Appeal.
D. Ross McGowan is a partner of Borden Ladner Gervais LLP and is National Chair of the firm's Fraud Law Practice Group. Ross provides advice to financial institutions and others on operations, payment systems, policy advice, and regulatory compliance, including work specifically focused on combating loss arising from fraud. Ross has acted on matters ranging from litigation defence work of individual customer complaints to mass tort Ponzi scheme claims. He provides operations and compliance advice on design of banking systems, account agreements, policy manuals, and regulatory compliance matters affecting financial institutions' operations. Ross also works with fidelity, E & O, and D & O insurers to provide coverage and subrogation advice relating to fraud losses, bondability of employees, policy design, and defence of claims.
Ross has been a guest speaker at many national and regional industry group conferences and has authored numerous articles on banking, bills of exchange, and fraud related topics. He received an international film award for developing an employee fraud awareness video titled "Consequences" and was recognized in Who'sWhoLegal as one of Canada's leading business crime defence lawyers. Ross was admitted to the BC bar in 1988.
Faculty
Simon R. Coval — Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP, Vancouver
Beverly G. Ellingson — Terra Law Corporation, Vancouver
Randy G. Klarenbach — Platform Properties Ltd., Vancouver
Lisa Martz — Gudmundseth Mickelson LLP, Vancouver
H. Scott MacDonald — Richards Buell Sutton LLP, Vancouver
D. Ross McGowan — Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, Vancouver
Richard J. Olson — McKechnie & Company, Vancouver
Peter Powers — Accurate Effective Bailiffs Ltd., Burnaby
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