Kathryn Manning

Kathryn is a Founding Partner in DMG Advocates. Kathryn has a broad civil litigation and arbitration practice that includes acting as counsel and an arbitrator in complex commercial disputes. Her experience includes shareholder disputes, officer and director liability, product liability litigation, complex contract disputes, civil fraud proceedings, tort litigation, employment litigation, professional negligence, and class actions. Kathryn regularly acts in cross-border matters, including assisting foreign clients with enforcement of judgments in Canada.

Kathryn represents individuals and organizations both in the Canadian courts and in commercial arbitration proceedings. Her clients are a mix of public companies, closely held corporations, and individual businesspeople. Kathryn’s clients rely on her for practical, strategic advice at every stage of a dispute, all with a view to maximizing their business goals and achieving cost efficiencies. Kathryn leverages technology at all stages of a matter.

In addition to her trial and arbitration experience, Kathryn has expertise in complex motion and appellate advocacy. Her experience also includes obtaining, executing, and enforcing Anton Piller and Mareva injunctions to preserve assets at the outset of litigation in civil fraud matters. Kathryn has appeared as counsel in an Ontario Coroner’s Inquest, and in actions in Saskatchewan and Manitoba. She has expertise in complex discovery planning and at managing electronic records. Kathryn has provided expert evidence on discovery planning and eDiscovery principles in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice.

Kathryn acts as an Arbitrator and Mediator of commercial disputes. She holds a Q. Arb designation from the ADR Institute of Canada and a certificate from ADRIC in its Med-Arb Foundational Course. She is a member of the Toronto Commercial Arbitration Society, the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, and Arbitral Women. When acting as Arbitrator, Kathyrn’s goal is to run proceedings that are efficient and cost-effective, utilizing procedures that parties agree on to get to a hearing much more quickly than in the court system.

Kathryn is the Immediate Past President of the Ontario Bar Association – the largest voluntary legal association in the province.