Jacqueline Cole is a partner at Ross Nasseri LLP. She has a general litigation practice with an emphasis on corporate commercial litigation, appellate litigation, and professional liability.
Jacqueline has established herself as a go-to lawyer for injunctions and trials in complex commercial cases. Her clients have included companies, directors/officers and business-people in various industries, including retail, manufacturing, telecommunications and financial services. She has experience litigating contractual disputes, shareholder disputes, oppression proceedings, economic torts, competition claims, and regulatory matters. She has also represented physicians in professional negligence and misconduct proceedings before courts and administrative tribunals, and has been recognized as a leading lawyer in medical malpractice law. Jacqueline has also developed a niche education law practice in which she provides counsel to families whose children are experiencing problems such as bullying, harassment, and intimidation at school or at extracurricular institutions.
Jacqueline is a seasoned trial and appeal lawyer and has appeared as counsel before all levels of court in Ontario, the Federal Court, and various regulatory tribunals. Jacqueline regularly appears at the Commercial List in Toronto on urgent and complex commercial disputes. She has been an instructor for students at Western University in Advanced Contracts and for students in the Osgoode e-Discovery, Information Governance and Privacy certificate program.
Prior to joining Ross Nasseri LLP as a partner, Jacqueline was a commercial and medical litigator at McCarthy Tétrault’s Toronto office. Jacqueline received her JD from Western University in 2013. Jacqueline also has a BA (with Honours) from Western University with a double major in business and political science, and a MPA from the Queen’s University School of Policy Studies. She previously worked in policy development and advocacy in the not-for-profit and public sectors.
Notable Cases:
- Fehr v. Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada, 2023 ONSC 2554; successful counsel in the hearing of multiple motions in a complex class proceeding. Jacqueline’s client was successful in barring certain claims for being out of time, resisting a motion to amend a pleading, and striking portions of an expert’s report. Jacqueline’s client was awarded $75,000 in costs for these motions
- Representing a manufacturing company in a confidential shareholder and employment dispute
- Representing a services company in an injunction against a departed employee for breach of fiduciary duties and theft/misuse of confidential information
- Representing a public corporation in multi-dealer system change litigation
- Representing a telecommunications company in obtaining an Anton Piller Order for the search and seizure of evidence of piracy of their creative content
- Representing a dual-listed company in a confidential international mining dispute
Updated April 2024
