John D. McCamus, B.A., M.A., LL.B., LL.M., FRSC is a University Professor and Professor of Law Emeritus at Osgoode Hall Law School of York University, a faculty which he served as Dean from 1982-1987. Prior to joining the faculty at Osgoode, he articled with the Toronto law firm, Fasken and Calvin, and served as a law clerk at the Supreme Court of Canada for Chief Justice Laskin. At Osgoode, his principal areas of research and teaching have included private law, especially restitution and contract, commercial law and information practices law. His published work includes three texts, The Law of Contracts, 3d ed. (2020), The Law of Restitution, 2d ed. (2004), (co-authored with the late P.D. Maddaugh), and An Introduction to the Canadian Law of Restitution and Unjust Enrichment (2020).

John is an elected member of the American Law Institute and served on its Advisory Committee for the Restatement of Restitution and Unjust Enrichment 3d.  He is currently an Associated Scholar in the Toronto office of Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP.  From 2007 to 2019, he served as Chair of Legal Aid Ontario. He has served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association from 1986 to present and served as Chair of the Board from 1992 to 2019.

Adam Herstein is a partner at Pitblado Law, practising in the area of corporate commercial law with a particular emphasis on technology transactions. In that capacity, Adam advises creators and users of technology with respect to its use, protection and commercialization.  His clients include businesses involved in software and app development (and consequent issues regarding various platforms such as the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store), Software as a Service or SaaS, cryptocurrency mining, IT security, quantum computing, artificial intelligence, website development, internet marketing, providers of technology services, videogame developers and many other creators of technology. A good part of Adam’s practice also involves providing advice to larger scale business users of technology in industries such as financial services and health care.  Adam has been consistently named to Best Lawyers in Canada and The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory for his extensive experience in technology law matters. Adam is the co-chair of the Can-Tech Law Association (Canadian Technology Lawyers association) Artificial Intelligence Committee, and a member of the executive of the Technology and Intellectual Property Law Section of the Manitoba Bar Association, as well as its past chair.

Krish is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Manitoba, and a member of the British Columbia and Alberta Bars.  The primary focus of his scholarship and teaching is the intersection of private law rights and remedies.  This includes the ways in which rights arising in contract, equity, and tort should or should not be vindicated through damages awards.  His recent scholarship has focussed on good faith in Canadian contract, and alternatives to the duty of honest performance available in tort and equity.  His recent publications can be found in the Alberta Law Review, the Journal of Commonwealth Law, and the Supreme Court Law Review, as well as the Continuing Legal Education Society of British Columbia’s 2021 Annual Review of Law and Practice in which he is the co-author of the chapter on new developments in contract.

Ross practices in the area of civil litigation, with an emphasis on insolvency and restructuring, and commercial disputes. He has extensive experience in providing advice to clients with respect to proposal proceedings under the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act proceedings under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangements Act, and in receivership matters, including acting as counsel for Court-appointed Receivers. In addition, Ross has acted for clients in connection with matters involving debt collection, shareholder rights and remedies, insurance and construction matters.

In addition to appearing before all levels of Court in Manitoba, including the Manitoba Court of Appeal on numerous occasions, Ross has also acted as counsel in cases before the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, the Saskatchewan and Alberta Courts of Queen’s Bench and the British Columbia Supreme Court. Ross has also appeared before a variety of administrative tribunals on behalf of his clients.

Ross articled with Thompson Dorfman Sweatman LLP in 2000 and was called to the Manitoba Bar in 2001. Ross became a partner in 2009 and he is presently a member of the firm’s Compensation Committee.

Since 2008, Jeff has been listed among the peer-selected Best Lawyers™ in Canada in labour and employment law. He primarily practices in the areas of labour relations, employment law, human rights, alternative dispute resolution, and sport law. He represents employers in all matters related to the workplace including as counsel in collective bargaining, drafting employment contracts and policies, management of employees, workplace safety and health disputes, privacy matters, human rights and accommodation issues, discrimination and harassment claims and wrongful or unjust dismissal claims as well as interest and rights arbitrations. Jeff is a member of the Canadian Association of Counsel to Employers, which is the leading management-side labour and employment lawyers organization uniquely in Canada.

Jeff serves as arbitrator under collective agreements (being on the List of Arbitrators approved by both the Chamber of Commerce and the Manitoba Federation of Labour, as maintained by the Manitoba Labour Board, or as chosen by the parties themselves), an adjudicator or referee appointed by the Minister of Labour under the Canada Labour Code, and as an arbitrator for the Sport Dispute Resolution Centre of Canada.

He is an educator too, having taught Human Resource Legislation at the University of Manitoba for many years and regularly serving as a speaker at Law Society, Bar Association and various other training and educational seminars. He presently teaches Employment Law at the University of Manitoba’s law school.

Jeff is a past Chair of the Board of Directors for Sport Manitoba and was a long-time volunteer with the United Way of Winnipeg, most recently serving on Cabinet as Co-Chair of Professions. He was honoured to be selected 4 times as Team Canada’s Ombudsperson with the Canadian Paralympic Committee, at the Paralympic Games in Beijing, Vancouver/Whistler, London and Sochi. More recently he has been a fundraiser for and performer in the annual co-production between the Manitoba Bar Association and the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre. He also serves on the Board of Directors for Prairie Theatre Exchange.