Levi E. Clain, Q.C.

Counsel

“Law is more than a business. It is a profession where I am allowed the privilege to serve my fellow man.”

Creative problem-solver.

As a litigator, Levi’s clients come to him when they are involved in a dispute that needs efficient resolution. Levi applies his 40 years of litigation expertise to aggressively pursue the just, least expensive and most expeditious solution in favour of the client.

Representative matters

Levi works with clients both big and small on a wide variety of legal issues.  His cases have caused him to be interviewed by Barbara Frum on “As It Happens”, and to appear on the “Fifth Estate”. Examples of his work include:
  • Successfully defending in the Supreme Court of Canada CPR’s title over a First Nations Reserve.
  • Successfully prosecuting price fixing allegations against two giant multinationals on behalf of the New Brunswick government.
  • Successfully recovering a judgement for damages against CNR on behalf of a boy from a low income family who was seriously injured in a Public Crossing accident.
  • Successfully defending over a ten year period a series of Court challenges to the Budworm Spray Program of the New Brunswick government.
  • Representing the Province of Prince Edward Island in a Federal Court challenge to the building of the Confederation Bridge (‘Fixed Link’).

Areas of practice

  • General Litigation

BAR ADMISSION(S)

New Brunswick, 1969

LAW SOCIETY(IES)

Law Society of New Brunswick

EDUCATION

University of Virginia, LL.M., 1985
University of New Brunswick, LL.B., 1969
University of New Brunswick, B.A., 1967

QUEEN'S COUNSEL

1986

ACTIVITIES

  • Member, Canadian Bar Association
  • President, Greater Moncton Chamber of Commerce, 1996-97
  • Director, Greater Moncton Airport Authority, 1995-1999
  • ‘Rotarian of the Year’ for Rotary District 7310, 2002-2003
  • Campaign chair, United Way for Greater Moncton, 1994
  • Founding chair and director, Children’s Wish Foundation of Canada (NB Chapter), 1987-1994
  • Chair, Peter Gzowski Invitational Golf Tournament for New Brunswick, 2002

LANGUAGE(S)

English

MARTINDALE-HUBBELL RATINGS

BV

Publications

  • Author, Georges’ Bank - A First in the Delimitation of a Single Maritime Boundary (1985, 25 Virginia Journal of International Law 521)
  • Co-Drafter and Editor, Rules of Court of New Brunswick

Suite 601, Blue Cross Centre
644 Main Street
Moncton, NB, Canada
E1C 1E2

P 506.853.1970
F 506.858.8454

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