Alex Smith

PARTNER

Alex Smith is Co-Chair of the Civil Litigation Practice Group and a partner at Henein Hutchison Robitaille LLP. Alex has a special focus on private wealth disputes, including oppression remedy matters and trust and estate litigation. He also has considerable experience in complex commercial disputes, pensions, class actions, and a variety of tort matters, ranging from defamation to financial fraud to conspiracy to sexual assault. He has acted for parties at all levels of Court in Ontario, in the Federal Court, the Federal Court of Appeal, at the Tax Court of Canada, and at the Supreme Court of Canada. He has also appeared before a wide range of tribunals and arbitration panels.

Alex regularly conducts internal investigations for boards of directors and general counsel into everything from whistleblower complaints to CEO conduct. He also defends people who are being investigated.

Alex is a contributing author to The Law of Climate Change in Canada, which was awarded the Walter Owen Book Prize from the Foundation for Legal Research. He has published on civil procedure, civil liberties, defamation, energy and environmental law issues and lectures regularly at various Ontario law schools. He is currently working on a book on will challenges with other members of the estates bar.

Alex received an Honours Bachelor of Arts from the University of Toronto, a Master of Arts from the University of Cambridge, and a Ph. D. in English Literature from Columbia University. He graduated from the University of Toronto Faculty of Law in 2008, where he was an editor-in-chief of the Law Review.

A native of Toronto, Alex serves on the Board of Trustees of Trinity College at the University of Toronto and is a Director of the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History.

Called to the Ontario bar in 2009.