Linda Catherine Phillips-Smith

Linda carefully listens to client desires, considers the issues, and explains possible outcomes at the action’s outset, permitting the client to evaluate their goals and fully instruct on strategy.

LINDA PHILLIPS-SMITH understands the need for honest early assessment and working co-operatively with clients in an efficient manner to reach client goals. Given Linda’s seasoned experience, her practice is wide and varied, with her current focus now related to coverage issues (CGL, D&O, excess), institutional abuse claims, products liability, and municipal claims and concerns.

Linda has defended class actions since their inception, those claims involving commercial products claims and recalls, municipal public health, gas explosions, and medical devices and implants and insurance brokers and securities trading. In addition, Linda has been involved in defending and sensitively resolving institutional abuse claims since the 1990’s including native residential claims, Children’s Aid Society claims, School Boards, and various religious organizations and denominations and assisting insurers with coverage determinations.

Linda has regularly appeared at all levels of Ontario courts, as well as at the Federal Court (trial) and the Supreme Court of Canada. Linda is a graduate of Dalhousie University and the University of Toronto where she now also teaches.