Charles Wright

First Year of Call
1995 Ontario

Areas of Practice
Class Actions

Description
Charles practises exclusively in the area of mass tort and class action litigation.

Education
Indiana University (B.A.B.S., 89),
University of North Carolina School of Law (Chapel Hill) Visiting Student 1992-93
University of Toronto LL.B., 1993

Charles is a Siskinds’ partner and leader of the class actions group. Having practiced almost exclusively in the area of class actions since his call to the Bar in 1995, Charles has broad experience in the area.

Charles is widely recognized for his dispute resolution skills and has been heavily engaged in the resolution of various types of cases in different jurisdictions. He has also been at the forefront of the development of law in many areas including class certification, settlement approval including objector rights, competition law cases, and litigation funding. Amongst the higher profile cases Charles has played a senior role on over the course of his career are the VW diesel litigation, transvaginal mesh litigation, Sino Forest securities litigation, LCD and CRT price fixing litigation, and Sun Life and Manulife vanishing premiums litigation.

Charles is regularly reviewed by third party publications and his colleagues as a top plaintiff class action lawyer in the country. He is one of only three plaintiff lawyers ranked in Tier 1 by Chamber and Partners and has received similar recognition by Benchmark Canada and Best Lawyers. In 2014, Charles received a Zenith award for having been at the forefront of class action litigation for over ten years.

Over the course of his career, Charles has been involved authoring numerous articles and textbooks (including Class Actions Law and Practice, Butterworths, 1999), teaching (Western University), and speaking at class action, antitrust, securities, and other conferences in Canada and internationally. He has also served as a board member of various national and international groups, particularly in the competition law area.