Lindsay Coutts Email & Phone Number

Toronto, ON, CA

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Toronto, Canada Area

• Managed professional liability claims against insured Chartered Accountants by investigating, assessing and evaluating the merits of each claim; developing strategies for resolution; providing thorough reports.
• Analyzed legal issues and potential liability exposure based on legal knowledge and research of relevant legislation, regulations and policies.
• Consulted and liaised with insureds, external counsel and experts, opposing parties and insurers to develop and maintain open and trusting working relationships and foster coordination and cooperation.
• Demonstrated excellent written communication skills through the drafting of reports to insurers, correspondence to insureds, external lawyers and experts, offers of settlement and memoranda.
• Developed time management skills by simultaneously managing between 120 and 140 complex files.

• Consulted with clients, prospective clients, opposing parties and lawyers to investigate relevant legal issues; to coordinate meetings and deadlines; and to develop strategies for the carriage of each file.
• Provided written and verbal legal opinions and recommendations to clients and other lawyers.
• Researched and analyzed case law, legislation, regulations and policies pertaining to a variety of procedural, family, employment, corporate, construction, municipal and real estate issues and conveyed findings in.
• Drafted a variety of legal documents including court pleadings, affidavits, settlement agreements, witness will-say statements, legal opinions, separation agreements, agreements of purchase and sale, distributorship.

• Researched the regulation and prosecution of identity fraud within Australia, Canada, England, Germany and the EU and reported findings in a comparative analysis.
• Assisted in updating Professor Weir’s textbook: Complementary Medicine: Ethics and Law – researched applicable legislation and case law and reported on the findings

• Volunteered once a week, as a course credit in the Administrative Law department
• Analyzed the legal merit and public interest of new cases
• Drafted case assessments
• Drafted letters of advice and inter-office memoranda

B.Sc (Hons.), Psychology, Biology, French

Jd (Hons.), Law

Graduated with First Class Honours in the top three of graduating class.