Dominique is the Chief Executive Officer of Bennett Jones. As CEO, Dominique is responsible for the executive management and operation of the firm. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Bennett Jones partnership, on which she served as Lead Director for four years before being named Vice-Chair and Toronto Managing Partner, the role that she held prior to her appointment as CEO.
Dominique also leads the firm's Intellectual Property Litigation group and is co-head of its Innovation, Technology and Branding group. She was named Outstanding Practitioner in Patent Law by Managing IP in their Americas Awards in 2020 and was a finalist for the 2021 Canadian Patent Litigator of the Year in LMG Life Sciences Awards North America. For the last eight years, Managing IP has named her in the Top 250 Women in IP in the world. In 2021, Dominique received the inaugural Chambers Canada Law Firm Leaders Award for her work as Managing Partner.
Dominique's practice involves all aspects of IP litigation and dispute resolution (patent, trademark, copyright, contracts, and trade secrets), with particular emphasis on litigation involving pharma/biotech and energy-related patents and trademarks. She counsels on trademark, patent, copyright, trade secret, advertising, marketing, packaging, labelling and regulatory matters—most often pertaining to pharmaceuticals, biologics, legal cannabis, food and beverages, medical devices, and natural health products.
Dominique is depended on to structure and negotiate complex strategic settlements and arrangements, with an eye to positive business and litigation outcomes. She also offers her experience to assist clients in navigating the IP aspects of corporate acquisition, re-organization, and joint ventures, including—with respect to the life sciences and health care industries—the regulatory aspects.
Before joining Bennett Jones, Dominique worked at a large law firm in New York, representing life sciences and consumer products companies in the areas of patents, trade secrets and false advertising, with a particular focus on pharmaceutical patent litigation and regulatory advice.
Dominique regularly writes, speaks, and teaches on the topics of written and oral advocacy, litigation, intellectual property, and leadership. Dominique is immediate past President of The Advocates’ Society, an organization that represents more than 5000 litigators across Canada and for which she served on the board for eight years. She currently serves on the boards of the non-profit organizations of the BlackNorth Initiative and the Stratford Festival. For more than a decade, she served as an adjunct faculty member at the University of Toronto Law School, teaching for the Harold G. Fox Intellectual Property Competitive Moot Program.
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