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Provided by Adam Goldenberg
Adam Goldenberg is a skilled and tenacious courtroom advocate who handles trials, appeals, and arbitrations across Canada. His practice focuses on commercial and public law disputes, including regulatory and constitutional litigation. He has been counsel in more than 20 appeals to the Supreme Court of Canada, spanning myriad areas of law, and before the courts of British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, New Brunswick, and the federal courts.
Ontario, 2015
New York, 2015
British Columbia, 2023
Adam is an Honorary Overseas Member of the Commercial Bar Association of England and Wales and serves on the Leadership Council of the World Justice Project. He is a member-at-large on the executive of The Advocates' Society's appellate advocacy practice group.
Adam served as a law clerk to Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin at the Supreme Court of Canada and to the judges of the Court of Appeal for Ontario. He has taught appellate practice and procedure at the University of Toronto and lectured at law schools across Canada. He is the co-founder and a board director of Gakino'amaage (Teach For Canada), and a former board chair of Action Canada. Adam regularly acts pro bono for individuals and organizations, particularly in matters affecting 2SLGBTQI+ communities.
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Adam Goldenberg is based in McCarthy Tétrault's Toronto office and focuses his practice on commercial and public law disputes. He represents clients in cases relating to contracts, privacy, defamation, employment, telecommunications, administrative law, constitutional interpretation, federalism, equality rights, freedom of expression, police powers and judicial independence.
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In public law, Adam Goldenberg at McCarthy is a real rising star, the next real deal. He has done incredible work across the country on really hard public law issues. He is really one to watch.
Excellent client service, depth of legal advice, and ability to arrive at sophisticated legal solutions.
Adam has a tremendous ability to set the context well and to support the client proactively. His history of presentation to the Supreme Court is a really big contributor to our confidence in the firm.
Adam is amazing. I trusted him implicitly from the get-go and he responded to my story with unwavering compassion. In court, he is a force of passion, logic, knowledge and conviction.
Adam is very well prepared, has a great presentation style and knows how to focus on what's important.
In public law, Adam Goldenberg at McCarthy is a real rising star, the next real deal. He has done incredible work across the country on really hard public law issues. He is really one to watch.
Excellent client service, depth of legal advice, and ability to arrive at sophisticated legal solutions.
Adam has a tremendous ability to set the context well and to support the client proactively. His history of presentation to the Supreme Court is a really big contributor to our confidence in the firm.
Adam is amazing. I trusted him implicitly from the get-go and he responded to my story with unwavering compassion. In court, he is a force of passion, logic, knowledge and conviction.
Adam is very well prepared, has a great presentation style and knows how to focus on what's important.
