Background
Heakes, Susan J. was born in 1957 in Ottawa, Ontario.
Heakes, Susan J. was born in 1957 in Ottawa, Ontario.
Carleton University (Bachelor of Arts, 1978). Queen"s University (Bachelor of Laws, 1981).
Worked at Blake, Cassels & Graydon (Toronto, Ontario) specializing in Aviation, Business, Commodity Tax and Trade, Communications, Competition, Constitutional, Creditors" Rights and Insolvency, Environmental, Estates and Trusts, Financial Services, Health, Insurance, Intellectual Property and Technology, International, Labour and Employment, Litigation, Marketing and Advertising, Media, Mergers and Acquisitions, Mining, Municipal Planning, Oil and Gas, Pension and Employee Benefits, Real Estate, Securities and Taxation, Trial and Appellate Work. Admitted to the bar, 1984, Ontario. Law Clerk to the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Ontario, Court of Appeal, 1984-1985.
Instructor, Advocacy, Osgoode Hall Law School, 1991-1996.
Sessional Lecturer, Queen"s University 1996. Instructor, Advocacy, Law Society of Upper Canada Bar Admissions Course, 1986-1995.
Ontario Centre for Advocacy, 1991-1996. Company-Editor: Carswell"s Practice Case, 1986-1994.
Author: "Enforcement of Family Support Payments" (The Canadian Institute).
Company-Author: "Damages for Delay: The Law After Dell Holdings" (Ontario Expropriations Association Fall Seminar and Annual General Meeting). Member: Canadian Bar Association. County of York Law Association.
Advocate"s Society.
Blake, Cassels & Graydon is one of Canada"s leading national law firms, with over 350 lawyers, serving its national and international clients through five offices across Canada and in Europe.
Member: Canadian Bar Association. County of York Law Association. Advocate"s Society.