Practice Areas

As the largest Canadian litigation boutique outside of Toronto, May Jensen Shawa Solomon LLP focuses on providing litigation expertise to both commercial and individual clients. The firm’s lawyers appear at all levels of Court in Alberta and Canada, including the Court of Queen’s Bench, the Court of Appeal, Federal Court, and the Supreme Court of Canada. The firm’s lawyers practise before various regulatory tribunals, and in the area of alternative dispute resolution (including arbitration, mediation and judicial dispute resolution). MJSS has the people, the expertise, and the resources (including state of the art litigation support technology) to handle any type of commercial litigation, however substantial.

Our major practice areas include:


ADMINISTRATIVE LAW

  • Commission and Board Hearings
  • Disciplinary Hearings
  • Investment Dealers and Mutual Fund Dealers Hearings
  • Judicial Review Applications
  • Securities Commission Hearings
  • APEGGA Hearings
  • Law Society Hearings
  • Canadian Institute of Actuaries Hearings
  • Professional Disciplinary Hearings
  • Regulatory and Administrative Applications, Hearings and Appeals
  • Fatality Inquiries

ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION

  • Arbitration
  • Judicial Dispute Resolution
  • Mediation
  • Negotiation

APPEALS

  • Civil
  • Administrative

BANKRUPTCY AND INSOLVENCY

  • Companies Creditors Arrangement Act Proceedings
  • Corporate Bankruptcies
  • Foreclosures
  • Fraudulent Preferences and Conveyances
  • Receiverships

CHARTER OF RIGHTS

CLASS ACTION

  • Pensions
  • Product liability
  • Shareholder and Securities

CORPORATE AND COMMERCIAL LITIGATION

  • Anton Piller Applications
  • Asset Purchases
  • Banking and Financing Litigation
  • Bankruptcy and Insolvency Litigation
  • Business Purchases
  • Collections, Enforcement and Asset Recovery
  • Commercial Insurance Litigation
  • Competition Litigation
  • Complex and Multi-party Matters
  • Contested Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Contested Takeovers
  • Contract Disputes
  • Debtor and Creditor Law
  • Derivative Actions
  • Director and Officer Litigation
  • Distribution and Agency Agreements
  • Engineering and Construction Litigation
  • Fiduciary Responsibilities
  • Guarantee, Bond and Letter of Credit Disputes
  • Injunctions
  • Joint Ventures
  • Lease and Purchase Agreement Litigation
  • Oil & Gas Litigation
  • Oppression Claims
  • Partnership Disputes
  • Patent and Trademark Infringement
  • Proxy Contests
  • Reorganizations and Restructuring
  • Share Purchases
  • Shareholder Disputes

DEFAMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS

  • Breach of Confidence
  • Copyright
  • Defamation
  • Freedom of Expression and Commercial Expression
  • Freedom of Information
  • Invasion of Privacy
  • Libel
  • Privacy and Access to Information
  • Trade Libel

EMPLOYMENT LAW

  • Intellectual Property
  • Non-Competition Disputes
  • Non-Solicitation Disputes
  • Termination Packages
  • Trade Secrets and Confidential or Proprietary Information
  • Workplace Injury
  • Wrongful Dismissal Claims (for employers and employees)

INSURANCE AND COVERAGE DISPUTES

  • All Risks and Property Insurance
  • Brain Damage and Major Neurological cases
  • Commercial General Liability Insurance
  • Director and Officer Insurance
  • Disability Insurance
  • Excess Insurance
  • Life Insurance
  • Occupiers’ Liability
  • Paraplegic and Quadriplegic Cases
  • Professional Liability Insurance
  • Self Insurance
  • Serious Personal Injury

INJUNCTIONS

ENVIRONMENTAL LITIGATION

  • Judicial Review
  • Oil, Gas and Natural Resource Litigation
  • Regulatory Hearings
  • Pollution and Environmental Litigation

MUNICIPAL AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT LITIGATION

PENSION AND TRUST LITIGATION

  • Class Actions
  • Fiduciary Responsibilities
  • Pensions
  • Terminations, Dismissals and Retiring Allowances
  • Trusts

PRODUCT LIABILITY

  • Defective Products causing injury or death
  • Negligent Design, Supply, Distribution or Manufacture causing financial losses

PROFESSIONAL NEGLIGENCE CLAIMS

  • Lawyer, Accountant, Architect and Engineer Disciplinary Actions
  • Lawyer, Accountant, Architect and Engineer Liability
  • Professional Breach of Contract
  • Professional Liability Insurance
  • Professional Negligence

PUBLIC LAW

  • Administrative Law
  • Charter of Rights Litigation
  • Government and Public Authority Litigation

REAL PROPERTY AND REAL ESTATE LITIGATION

  • Commercial Landlord and Tenant Litigation
  • Condominium Litigation
  • Construction and Engineering Disputes
  • Development Appeals
  • Easements and Restrictive Covenants
  • Enforcement of Security
  • Environmental Litigation
  • Joint Ventures
  • Land Acquisitions and Dispositions
  • Lease Renewal Arbitrations
  • Occupiers’ Liability
  • Partnerships
  • Real Estate Purchase and Sale Litigation
  • Restrictive Covenants
  • Slander of Title

REGULATORY WORK

  • Alberta Environmental Appeals Board Hearings
  • Alberta Department of the Environment Applications, Hearings and Appeals
  • Alberta Securities Commission Hearings
  • Disciplinary Hearings and Charges
  • Alberta Utilities Commission (AUC) and Energy Resources Conservation Board (ERCB) Applications, Hearings and Appeals
  • Investment Dealers and Mutual Fund Dealers Hearings
  • Law Society Hearings
  • Regulatory Charges and Compliance

TORT LITIGATION

WILLS AND ESTATES LITIGATION

  • Administration Applications
  • Dependant Adults Litigation
  • Probate Applications
  • Trust Litigation
  • Wills Litigation

WRONGFUL INJURY AND DEATH CLAIMS

  • Significant Disability Claims
  • Significant Personal Injury
  • Fatal Accidents and Wrongful Death
  • Malpractice by other health care professionals
  • Medical and Chiropractic
  • Motor Vehicle Accidents
  • Catastrophic Personal Injury
  • Sexual Abuse and Abuse of Children in care