Claire Hunter has recently joined the firm after five years of practice with Sullivan & Cromwell in New York, where she focussed on defending financial institutions in criminal, regulatory and securities class actions, conducting internal investigations and providing advice on compliance with U.S. securities laws as well as general civil litigation and administrative law. She has been a member of the New York State bar since 2004 and is admitted to practice before the United States District Courts for the Southern, Eastern and Western Districts of New York and the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

A graduate of McGill, Stanford and the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, Claire spent a year as law clerk to Justice Iacobucci of the Supreme Court of Canada before commencing her practice in New York. She was called to the bar in Ontario in 2004 as well as being a member of the British Columbia bar.

Education
B.A., McGill University, 1999
M.A., Stanford University, 2000
J.D., University of Toronto, 2003

Clerkship
Supreme Court of Canada, 2003-2004

Bar Admissions
Ontario, 2004
New York, 2004 (S.D.N.Y., 2005; E.D.N.Y., 2005; W.D.N.Y., 2005; Second Circuit, 2009)
British Columbia, 2010

Publications

"Continuing the Conversation: A Reply to Manfredi and Kelly" (2004) 49(3) McGill Law Journal 765 (with Sujit Choudhry).

"New Justification for an Old Approach: In Defense of Characterizing First Nations Treaties as Contracts" (2004) 62 (1) University of Toronto Faculty of Law Review 61.

"Measuring Judicial Activism on the Supreme Court of Canada: A Comment on Newfoundland (Treasury Board) v. Newfoundland Association of Public Employees" (2003) 48 (3) McGill Law Journal 525 (with Sujit Choudhry).