Lawyer Profile
Sarah E. Whitmore
Toronto, Ontario
Overview
From precedent-setting class action defence to defamation law and commercial litigation, Sarah brings broad experience and skilled advocacy to her work with clients on all aspects of their disputes.
Sarah is the practice group leader for Torys' litigation department. Sarah maintains an active disputes practice with an emphasis on commercial litigation, class actions, employment law, and defamation. Sarah advises corporations in all stages of disputes, including complex governance disputes, shareholder arrangements, breach of contract claims, and transaction disputes.
Sarah advises clients in numerous class actions, including employment claims, product liability, competition law, mass tort and negligence disputes. She regularly represents clients in the banking, retail, and technology sectors, including acting as counsel in several leading and precedent-setting national class actions, acting for the Canadian Hockey League, Canada Cartage and Deloitte, as well as a Canadian Schedule I bank in its defence to the first common issues trial to proceed on the merits in an employment class action in Canada.
Sarah also has a robust defamation practice regularly representing media companies, authors, and individuals in various defamation matters.
She has appeared as counsel at all levels of court in Ontario, British Columbia, Alberta, and Québec, as well as in various administrative tribunals in Ontario (including the Human Rights Tribunal), the Federal Court of Canada and the Supreme Court of Canada.
Torys is acting as counsel to Deloitte in a class action alleging the misclassification of employees and breach of contract
Torys acted as counsel to Olympic athlete Mandy Bujold and the Canadian Olympic Committee in an arbitration against the International Olympic Committee before the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Switzerland with respect to a gender equity and discrimination challenge of the Tokyo 2020 qualification process
Torys is acting as counsel to a major Canadian Schedule I bank in an overtime class action concerning unpaid time
Practice Areas
Bar Information
Called to the bar: 2011 (ON)