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KATHRYN PODREBARAC
Kathryn Podrebarac graduated from Osgoode Hall Law School in 1992. After practicing for several years at one of Canada’s leading national full-service law firms, Kathryn practiced with Bonnie Tough at a litigation boutique before founding their own firm, Tough & Podrebarac LLP.
Kathryn’s practice focuses primarily on commercial litigation, arbitration and class actions. She has acted as counsel in a wide range of complex disputes involving all types of commercial contracts and commercial torts, including conspiracy, unlawful interference with economic relations, inducing breach of contract, breaches of confidence and fiduciary duties, misrepresentation and breaches of the Competition Act. She has also been involved in a number of oppression remedy cases commenced under federal and provincial business corporations legislation. Her class actions experience includes product liability and pensions cases.
Kathryn has appeared before all levels of the Ontario Courts, the Saskatchewan courts, the Federal Courts and the Supreme Court of Canada. She has also been counsel in domestic arbitrations and international arbitrations under the UNCITRAL Model Law.
Kathryn is a frequent speaker and co-chair of continuing legal education programs for The Advocates’ Society and the Ontario Bar Association and is a trained litigation skills instructor for The Advocates’ Society and the Intensive Trial Advocacy Workshop of Osgoode Hall Law School. She has published in the areas of civil litigation, evidence and class actions. Recent speaking engagements and publications are listed below.
In addition to her significant commitment to continuing legal education and mentoring articling students and junior lawyers, Kathryn’s other professional volunteer activities have included acting as a judge of moots at the Osgoode Hall and University of Toronto law schools and providing legal advice to street youth at Covenant House.
In 2009, she became a member of the Executive of the Ontario Bar Association Civil Litigation Section.
RECENT SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS and PUBLICATIONS
| May 6, 2010 |
Ontario Bar Association
Chair: Simplifying Simplified Procedure |
| October 1, 2009 |
The Advocates’ Society
Mentor: The Woman Advocate: Is there a Difference?
Co-Director and Producer (Film): Lessons from Leading Mentors on Excelling as a Woman Advocate |
| September 29, 2009 |
Ontario Bar Association 2009 Institute, Dialogue with the Bench and Bar:
Tools and Tactics to Improve your Advocacy Skills
Speaker and Author:
Motions/Simplified Procedure |
| September 24, 2009 |
Osgoode Hall Professional Development Program,
6th Annual Conference - Evidence Law for the Civil Litigator
Speaker and Author:
Keeping Secrets and Protecting Confidential Documents and Information in Litigation |
| April 4, 2009 |
The Advocates’ Society
Coach: 5th Annual Do a Trial Program |
| February 2, 2009 |
Ontario Bar Association 2009 Institute
Civil Ligation – Canada/US Cross-Border Issues
Speaker and Author:
A How-To Guide to Obtaining and Enforcing Letters Rogatory in Ontario |
December 11, 2008 |
The Advocates' Society
Co-Chair: Winning with the Experts: Trends and Tactics |
| May 2, 2008 |
The Advocates’ Society
Speaker: Spring Symposium: Trials and Tribulations:
The Practical Advocate |
March 29, 2008 |
The Advocates’ Society
Coach:The Woman Advocate: Is there is a Difference? |
| February 19, 2008 |
The Advocates’ Society
Speaker: Discovery Techniques and Strategies:
Controlling the Process and Getting the Facts |
| February 7, 2008 |
The Advocates’ Society
Speaker: Court House Series |
| December 4, 2007 |
The Advocates’ Society
Co-Chair: Examination –in-Chief: Advanced Introduction of Evidence |
| September 20, 2007 |
Ontario Bar Association
Speaker: Pleadings, Motions to Strike: Homerun or Strikeout? |
| September 19, 2007 |
Osgoode Hall Professional Development Program
4th Annual Conference - Evidence Law for the Civil Litigator
Speaker and Author: Hearsay: Recent Developments – Threshold Reliability Revisited |
| April 19, 2007 |
The Advocates’ Society
Co-Chair: Discovery Done Right: Controlling the Process and Getting the Facts |
| December 11, 2006 |
Ontario Bar Association
Divine Discoveries: Building a Great Case
Speaker and Author: Affidavits of Documents, Privilege and Confidentiality |
| September 28, 2006 |
Osgoode Hall Professional Development Program,
Evidence Law for the Civil Litigator
Speaker and Author: Solicitor-Client Privilege: An Update |
| May 24, 2006 |
Ontario Bar Association
Dialogue with the Bench and Bar: Tools and Tactics to Improve Your Advocacy Skills
Speaker and Author: Motions/Applications/ Simplified Rules |
| December 9, 2005 |
Ontario Bar Association
Divine Discoveries: Building a Great Case
Speaker and Author: Preparing Your Client for Discovery |
| November 11, 2005 |
The Advocates’ Society
Co-Chair: How to Conduct Better Cross-Examinations |
| November 3, 2005 |
Ontario Bar Association
Your First Class Action: Get the Nuts and Bolts from Top Practitioners and Judges
Speaker: National Class Actions: Current Issues |
| October 21, 2005 |
The Advocates’ Society
Speaker: How to Excel at Examination in Chief |
| Summer 2005 |
The Litigator, Journal of the Ontario Trial Lawyers Association
Author: The Representative Plaintiff in Class Actions |
| February 15, 2005 |
The Advocates’ Society
Speaker: Expert Essentials |
AWARDS
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Winner of the Arnup Cup for Trial Advocacy
Special Award of Recognition by the Canadian Hemophilia Society for her work as counsel before the Commission of Inquiry on the Blood System in Canada |
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
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Law Society of Upper Canada, The Advocates’ Society, Canadian Bar Association, Ontario Bar Association, Toronto Lawyers’ Association |
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