About Conway Baxter Wilson LLP/s.r.l.

Conway Baxter Wilson LLP/s.r.l., which goes by Conway, is a litigation firm based in Ottawa. Thomas Conway, Colin Baxter, and David Wilson founded it in 2014, after Conway had led a national firm's Ottawa litigation group for several years and Baxter had spent 18 years in commercial litigation at another large firm. The firm's grown to about 20 lawyers, and it doesn't run a general practice: it concentrates on corporate and commercial litigation and arbitration, public, administrative and regulatory law, and appellate advocacy.

That focus shows up in the firm's case list. In 2018 its lawyers won certification of a class action against the City of Ottawa on behalf of 768 taxi licence holders and four brokers, seeking $215 million in damages over how the City handled Uber's entry into the local market. In 2024 the Ontario Superior Court found the City had been negligent. Conway's lawyers have also argued cases before the Supreme Court of Canada and other appellate courts, and one served as Senior Commission Counsel to the federal Public Order Emergency Commission. The firm practices in English and French.

In the community

  • Lawyers at the firm hold or have held bencher and trustee roles at the Law Society of Ontario and the County of Carleton Law Association, are former Supreme Court and appellate court clerks, and sit on boards including the College of Patent Agents and Trademark Agents, the Law Commission of Ontario, and the Bruyere Research Institute.
  • All partners and associates take on pro bono work, including volunteering at Pro Bono Ontario's help clinic at the Ottawa courthouse, with lawyers doing pro bono advocacy in human rights, Indigenous rights, and constitutional law.
  • The firm is active in the Advocates' Society, contributing to its publications and programs, and its lawyers present at continuing legal education events and community legal information sessions.

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This firm’s lawyers at a glance

Called to the bar
1985–2024 · median 8 years in practice 15 of 18 lawyers
Law schools
McGill University (5), University of Ottawa (4), Queen's University (2), Dalhousie University, Harvard Law School, University of British Columbia and 2 more 16 of 18 lawyers
Languages on the roster
Arabic, English, French, Spanish

Where to find them

400-411 Roosevelt Avenue, Ottawa, ON K2A 3X9 · 613-288-0149

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