Bradley A. "Brad" Newby

Nigel is a partner at Harper Grey and chairs the insurance law group. Nigel’s defence practice focuses on large complex litigation matters ranging from class actions, to complex bodily injury claims, often including mass casualty events, to product liability cases. He has defended many high profile cases including professional athlete concussion cases and class actions for product liability and personal injury. He is our in-house expert on subrogated property insurance claims. He has se...

Charles Bois has a diverse practice that focuses on the oil and gas, energy, mining and natural resources, Aboriginal, environmental, commercial, and construction and infrastructure sectors. In addition to his legal experience, prior to becoming a lawyer, Charles spent over 20 years working in the natural gas industry, including senior management and consulting roles. Charles is a trusted adviser to his clients on commercial, administrative and regulatory, and environmental matters (such as p...

Katie Chandler is a corporate/commercial lawyer providing strategic counsel to companies in the technology sector on a range of issues, from inception of the business to the growth and procurement phases. Advising private companies on a range of business transactions and commercial activities, Katie assists with start-up and incorporation issues, debt and equity angel and venture capital financings, mergers and acquisitions, and IT licensing and development.

Adam practices commercial and general insurance defence litigation, with an emphasis on errors and omissions, medical malpractice, highways liability, products liability and coverage disputes. He was first called to the Bar in New Zealand, and upon admission practiced with a leading New Zealand litigation firm, focusing on insurance defence. Adam practiced there for approximately 3 years, before leaving to travel in 1997. After his travels, Adam practiced in London, England with a leading ins...

Alexandre Maltas joined Whitelaw Twining in 2007. He practices primarily in the areas insurance law, construction law, and commercial and employment litigation. Alex is the head of the firm's Professional Liability Practice Group. Alex routinely defends architects, engineers and other design professionals. Alex also provides risk management and coverage advice in respect of design professionals. Alex also has experience with acting for professionals in a wide variety of disciplinary proceedin...

John Fiddick joined Whitelaw Twining in 2012 as Litigation Counsel and the Chair of the Commercial Litigation Group. His practice involves a broad range of commercial and business litigation matters with a particular emphasis on insolvency and restructuring matters. He regularly represents senior and subordinate lenders, trustees and receivers and debtors in complex, multi-party litigation. These matters often involve the enforcement of security or court judgements. He has represented shareho...

Jason Kostyniuk is a Partner and the leader of the firm’s Maritime Practice Group. He is also a member of the firm’s Environmental and Insurance Practice Groups. Jason’s practice focuses on maritime and transportation matters, as well as commercial and insurance litigation. It includes ship arrest and enforcement of maritime claims, charterparty and commercial contract disputes, marine pollution, general insurance matters, marine insurance and P&I matters, vessel collisi...

As a partner at Lindsay Kenney LLP, Chris Martin has broad litigation experience in a variety of corporate commercial matters, including resolving contractual, corporate governance, shareholder and partnership disputes. He has appeared as counsel in all levels of court in British Columbia as well as the Federal Court of Canada. As an experienced employment lawyer, Chris represents employers and employees in wrongful dismissal and discrimination matters. In his practice, he successfully acts f...

Dale McGregor is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Personal Injury Litigation. Dale, who practices law in Vancouver, British Columbia, has been recognized since 2025. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Dale is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.

For over 20 years, Brian Kingwell has been engaged in patent prosecution and strategic patent portfolio counseling in the areas of molecular biology, biochemistry, chemistry, chemical engineering and medical devices. He has wide-ranging experience in obtaining patents for products such as a novel family of heterocyclic antibiotics, the InsectSelect™ protein expression vector, high oleic acid brassica juncea plants, in situ combustion processes for recovery of hydrocarbons, heavy metal w...