Dominique Hussey

Practice Areas

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'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.

Career

Admitted to the Ontario bar, 1999; New York State bar, 2003; Eastern District and Southern District of New York bar, 2004 and Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, 2004.

Personal

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.