Jacqueline Leslie Cole

Corporate & Commercial Litigation Appeals Professional Liability & Regulation Investigations Injunctions & Crisis Management Class Actions Tort & Negligence Matters Environmental Disputes

Jacqueline Cole is the Managing Partner of Ross Nasseri LLP. She has a general litigation practice with an emphasis on corporate commercial litigation, investigations, appellate litigation, and professional liability. She is a seasoned trial and appeal lawyer and has appeared as counsel before all levels of court in Ontario, the Federal Court, and various regulatory tribunals. Jacqueline regularly appears at the Commercial List in Toronto on urgent and complex commercial disputes.

Jacqueline has established herself as a go-to lawyer for injunctions and trials in complex commercial cases. Her clients have included companies, directors/officers and businesspeople in various industries, including retail, manufacturing, telecommunications and financial services. She has experience litigating contractual disputes, shareholder disputes, oppression proceedings, economic torts, competition claims, and regulatory matters.

Jacqueline also acts for individuals and professionals in investigations or inquiries within corporations, before ethics boards, and in academic institutions. Jacqueline has acted for professionals (including regulated health professionals) in proceedings before courts, administrative tribunals and regulatory bodies. Jacqueline has a niche education law and academia practice in which she provides counsel to academics facing allegations of misconduct in teaching and research capacities, and families whose children are experiencing problems such as bullying, harassment, and intimidation at school or at extracurricular institutions.

Jacqueline has also developed expertise in alternative dispute resolution (“ADR”). She has developed a practice as a mediator and arbitrator and has been called on to mediate and/or arbitrate various sensitive matters including commercial, family/estates, and school-related disputes.