About
Kathleen McDormand is a partner at Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, serving as Partner and Lead of Team North and regional group manager for the Ottawa Disputes Group. She practices commercial and estate litigation, has extensive experience in estate and incapacity litigation and mediation, and handles matters for Northern clients including Nunavut.
Practice areas
Commercial LitigationTrusts & EstatesConstruction LitigationAlternative Dispute Resolution
Office
Expertise
Estate and incapacity litigation (guardianship, removal of trustees, passing of accounts, will challenges)Mediation in estates matters (as counsel and as mediator)Disputes involving Nunavut and Northern clientsRegional disputes group management / Team North leadership
Education
- Workplace Mental Health Leadership Certificate, Faculty of Health Sciences, Queen's University, 2018
- Program on Negotiation: Mediating Disputes Course, Harvard Law School Executive Program, June 2018
- Accelerated Leadership Program, Harvard Law School, March 2018
- Business Leadership for Women Lawyers Program, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, 2016
- TEP
- LLB, University of Ottawa, 2001
- B.Soc.Sci. (Hons.), University of Ottawa, 1998
Admissions
- Ontario, 2002
- Nunavut, 2010
Languages
English