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Erin Durant is a litigator at Borden Ladner Gervais in Ottawa. She accepts retainers to defend professional negligence, officers' and directors' liability, property damage, personal injury and insurance coverage claims on behalf of insurers. She has represented title insurers in real property disputes and coverage litigation as well as other lawyers in negligence claims and disciplinary proceedings. She has appeared in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, the Ontario Court of Appeal, the Federal Court and before the Law Society Tribunal. In her labour and employment practice, Erin works with a national team of lawyers to advise employers on union certification, bargaining, corporate transactions, employee terminations, arbitrations, wrongful dismissals (including insured claims), interest arbitrations and human rights complaints. Erin is a member of the Advocates' Society's Young Lawyers' Standing Committee and is past-chair of the Canadian Defence Lawyers' Young Lawyers Division. Erin was a member of The Advocates' Society's task forces on trials that published the Best Practices for Civil Trials and the Advocates' Society's Courts Technology Task Force that contributed to the Paperless Trials Manual. She is a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada's Early Career Roundtable.