Business Litigation.

Elaine Adair is a Partner with Clark Wilson LLP's Business Litigation Practice Group.

Elaine's practice encompasses most areas of commercial civil litigation, including contract disputes, product liability claims, insurance coverage disputes and other complex commercial matters.

She received her M.A. from the University of Western Ontario in 1978, and her LL.B. from the University of Toronto in 1981. Elaine was called to the bar of British Columbia in 1982.

Elaine is a contributing author of Defending Class Actions in Canada (now in its 2nd edition), a concise resource on class actions in Canada from a defence perspective, published by CCH. Other activities have included speaking at the British Columbia Continuing Legal Education Society's 2005 conference entitled "Class Actions: the 10th Anniversary Platinum Collectors' CLE" and participation as a workshop leader and panel moderator at the Canadian Institute's Annual National Forums on Litigating Class Actions. In 2007, Elaine was a member of the Advisory Board, as well as a panel moderator, for the Conference Board of Canada's "Class Action Forum: Pre-emptive Business and Legal Strategies," held in Toronto, Ontario.

In 2006, Elaine served on the CBABC's Electronic Evidence Committee and assisted in the drafting of British Columbia's Practice Direction re Electronic Evidence.

Over the last 10 years, Elaine has defended a variety of clients involved in class actions, including:

• litigation following the collapse of Bre-X Minerals;

• product liability claims;

• alleged price-fixing conspiracies; and

• actions involving a well-known payday lender.

Member, Law Society of British Columbia (1982)

Member, Canadian Bar Association

Member, American Bar Association (including the Litigation Section, Class Actions and Derivative Suits Subcommittee, and Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section)