About Charles
Charles is a Siskinds partner and leader of Siskinds' Price Fixing Class Action Group. He has been counsel to the class in numerous successful class actions, including the areas of price-fixing, securities, products liability, and consumer protection.Charles has repeatedly been recognized as one of Canada's leading class action lawyers, including being named by Lexpert/American Lawyer Guide as one of the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada, by Chambers & Partners as a class actions leading practitioner, by Benchmark Canada as a litigation star, and as a recipient of the 2014 Lexpert Zenith Award.A co-author of Class Actions Law and Practice (Butterworths 1999), he speaks frequently at public and legal forums on class action litigation.
Charles is a Siskinds partner and leader of Siskinds' Price Fixing Class Action Group. He has been counsel to the class in numerous successful class actions, including the areas of price-fixing, securities, products liability, and consumer protection.Charles has repeatedly been recognized as one of Canada's leading class action lawyers, including being named by Lexpert/American Lawyer Guide as one of the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada, by Chambers & Partners as a class actions leading practitioner, by Benchmark Canada as a litigation star, and as a recipient of the 2014 Lexpert Zenith Award.A co-author of Class Actions Law and Practice (Butterworths 1999), he speaks frequently at public and legal forums on class action litigation.
Charles is a Siskinds partner and leader of Siskinds' Price Fixing Class Action Group. He has been counsel to the class in numerous successful class actions, including the areas of price-fixing, securities, products liability, and consumer protection.
Charles has repeatedly been recognized as one of Canada's leading class action lawyers, including being named by Lexpert/American Lawyer Guide as one of the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada, by Chambers & Partners as a class actions leading practitioner, by Benchmark Canada as a litigation star, and as a recipient of the 2014 Lexpert Zenith Award.
A co-author of Class Actions Law and Practice (Butterworths 1999), he speaks frequently at public and legal forums on class action litigation.
Practice Areas
Awards & Recognition
- Lawyer of the Year: Class Action Litigation, London/Windsor, Canada (2022)
- Recognized: Class Action Litigation
- 2014, recipient of a Lexpert Zenith Award for his work at the forefront of class action law in Canada for over ten years
- Since 2012, named to the Lexpert/American Lawyer Guide for Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada
- Since 2012, chosen directly by his peers to be published in the Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory as a leading practitioner
- December 2012, named to Lexpert’s list of leading litigators in their Globe and Mail insert "Report on Business Special Edition: Litigation" For the years 2012 and 2013, named to Lexpert’s Guide to the Leading US/Canada Cross-Border Litigation Lawyers in
- 2013, 2014 named by Chambers & Partners, Chambers Global: Dispute Resolution: Class Action (Plaintiff) - Canada - as a leading practitioner Benchmark Canada
- Benchmark Canada, Local Litigation Star (2012, 2013, 2014, 2015) - Ontario
- Benchmark Canada, Litigation Star (2013, 2014) - Canada, Class Action
- Class ActionSiskinds LLP named as the top-ranked Canadian firm in the "SCAS 50." Siskinds was the first Canadian firm to rank in the top 50 and has been the top Canadian firm each year since 2010.
- In 2014, Siskinds ranked 16th overall in the global ranking of the world's 50 leading securities class action law firms, the highest ranking ever attained by a Canadian firm. It is compiled annually by Securities Class Action Services, a unit of Instituti
- 2009, LawDay Directory of Leading Lawyers: recognized as among the 50 Leading Practitioners in the practice area of Class Action-Plaintiff
