Brendan Macarthur-Stevens Email & Phone Number

Brendan is a dispute resolution Partner at Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP and a Sessional Instructor of Administrative Law at the University of Calgary Faculty of Law. He specializes in complex commercial litigation and arbitration, and advising clients about public law matters. He has appeared as counsel before the Alberta Court of King's Bench, the Court of Appeal of Alberta, the Federal Court of Canada, and the Supreme Court of Canada. He has also represented clients in various international and domestic arbitrations and mediations. The matters with which Brendan has been involved have spanned several industries, including transportation (air and rail), energy, construction, insurance, and professional sports. Brendan co-founded Alberta's first pro-bono legal clinic devoted to serving trans clients. He also does extensive pro-bono work for other LGBTQ2S+ organizations in Alberta, including acting as pro-bono counsel in the context of a piece of constitutional litigation about Gay-Straight Alliances in the province and as lead pro-bono intervention counsel on multiple occasions at the Supreme Court of Canada. Brendan is part of Avenue Calgary Magazine's Top 40 Under 40 class for 2022.Before joining Blakes, Brendan clerked for the judges of the Court of Appeal for Ontario, and then for the Honourable Justice Andromache Karakatsanis of the Supreme Court of Canada. He completed his J.D. at the University of Toronto, where he was elected President of the Students' Law Society. Upon graduation, he was awarded the Cecil A. Wright Dean's Key and the James B. Milner Bronze Medal.Prior to law school, Brendan obtained his H.B.A. from the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario, where he was elected Valedictorian of his graduating class.