ZvK IN THE NEWS
As leading practitioners in their fields, our lawyers are regularly interviewed by media outlets and invited to speak and present on topics within their areas of expertise.
ZvK Partner Maanit Zemel discusses the perils of online defamation and uncovering the identities of anonymous defamers with the CBC
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/london-doctors-seek-rare-court-order-want-google-to-name-sender-of-defamatory-emails-1.7105520
ZvK Partner Maanit Zemel is a Facilitator on the panel on International Law & Cross-Vetting at the American Bar Association’s Forum on Communications Law Annual Conference in Santa Barbara, California. Ms. Zemel focused her presentation on the status of Anti-SLAPP litigation in Canada
In Clancy v Farid (2023 ONSC 2750), ZvK Partner Maanit Zemel obtains the highest damages award ever made against a single defendant in Canada, totaling more than $4.7 million. The judgment arose out of a campaign of online defamation and harassment of our 53 clients.
Maanit Zemel is successful before the Ontario Court of Appeal, upholding a trial judge’s award in favour of ZvK clients, totaling more than $300,000 in damages, interest, and costs.
Maanit Zemel was named by her peers as Best Lawyer in Toronto 2022 in Civil Litigation in Post Magazine’s November 2022 Issue.
Maanit Zemel is quoted by The Law Times in an article about her success at the Ontario Court of Appeal representing a secured debtor whose assets were unlawfully seized.
ZvK partner Maanit Zemel wins an appeal at the Ontario Court of Appeal confirming the rights of secured debtors to reasonable notice of seizure of the secured assets in 1758704 Ontario Inc. v. Priest, 2021 ONCA 588. Ms. Zemel also obtained for her clients an award of over $20,000 in legal costs.