Peter J. Major
Partner
Calgary
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Tel :
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403.531.4725
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Fax :
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403.531.4720
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Professional Experience
Peter leads Calgary's litigation group and his practice is focused on complex commercial litigation, arbitration and mediations. He clerked with the Alberta Court of Appeal and Queen's Bench before commencing his legal practice as a Prosecutor with the Alberta Department of Justice followed by his entre into private practice and civil litigation while continuing to prosecute as an agent for the Federal Department of Justice for approximately seven years.
In private practice Peter regularly appears, and has been successful, in all levels of Court in Alberta. He draws from considerable courtroom experience to provide practical and effective advice on how each of his clients can best pursue a resolution to their specific problems.
In the firm's specialized energy practice, Peter is repeatedly lead counsel on behalf of individuals, junior, mid-size and major corporations in all forms of disputes ranging from royalty claims; Rights of First Refusal; AMI acquisitions; trespass, lease enforcement and collapses; facilities operations; interpretation and applications of CO&O Agreements and CAPL procedures; enforcement and challenges to caveat registration and mining claims.
Peter is similarly lead counsel in multiple non energy related commercial disputes representing a wide variety of corporate and individual clients ranging from complex contractual disputes, oppression claims, fraud, subrogated claims, patent protection, defamation, commercial and residential real estate disputes to all forms of employment matters. More notably, Peter, with colleagues in the Toronto office, was Canadian counsel for overseas institutional clients in a $700 million multi cross border banking litigation dispute.
Internally, Peter is involved with the firm's Professional Standards and Excellence Committee, the Conflicts Committee and serves as the Calgary Office Privacy Officer. Externally, Peter is requested to speak on practice area issues and from time to time called upon by CBC radio for live interviews on selected news items.
publications and presentations
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February 2012
2012 Civil Trial Advocacy Program
Instructor, The Advocates' Society, Calgary
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December 2010
Remedies in Residential Real Estates Disputes
Presentation, the Canadian Bar Association, Real Property Section, December 8, 2010
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September 2010
What is the Impact of Canadian Standards Association Z246.01-09? - Security Management for the Petroleum and Natural Gas Industry Systems
Presentation, Intelleview Technologies - Industry Lunch n Learn, September 29, 2010
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