Claire Hunter practices in all areas of civil litigation and administrative law at both the trial and appellate level. She has broad experience working on complex commercial and securities matters, including conducting internal investigations and appearing before regulators in Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom, and has advised domestic and foreign clients on compliance with Canadian and U.S. securities and economic sanctions regulations.

Claire joined the firm in 2010 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.

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 has been a member of the New York State and Ontario
bars since 2004 and was called to the British Columbia bar in 2010.

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
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).