Jennifer McAleer is a partner in the Litigation and Dispute Resolution Group in Toronto and practices a wide variety of corporate and commercial litigation and administrative law.
Jennifer has been involved in two significant public inquiries. Between 2004 and 2007 she was co-counsel to the former premier of Ontario at the Ipperwash Public Inquiry and in 2007 she was appointed Assistant Commission Counsel to the Goudge Inquiry into Pediatric Forensic Pathology in Ontario.
Jennifer has significant experience in professional discipline matters, having acted for clients before the Law Society of Upper Canada and the Royal College of Dental Surgeons of Ontario, in addition to serving as independent legal counsel to the Discipline Committee of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario since 2007.
She also has extensive experience in complex tort matters. She has acted for the Attorney General of Canada in respect to toxic dumping, has been counsel to Canadian Pacific Railway since 2000 on a variety of tort claims, and regularly acts on behalf of plaintiffs in institutional and sexual abuse claims. She was counsel to the plaintiff in the case of John Doe v. O'Dell (2003), 230 D.L.R. (4th) 383 (Ont. S.C.J.), in which the plaintiff received the largest judgment on record against a Catholic Diocese for sexual abuse of a child.
Jennifer represents clients in a wide variety of other matters including product liability, pensions, employment, contract and shareholder disputes, and has acted for both public and private entities in international arbitration.
Community Involvement
- Member, World Wildlife Fund, Living Planet Circle
- Member, Toronto Humane Society
Membership/Affiliations
- Member, Canadian Bar Association
- Member, Advocates' Society