Antonella has worked in insurance defence litigation for 25 years. She focuses on personal injury, municipal and police liability, occupiers’ liability and motor vehicle accident claims, managing all aspects of client files.
Antonella assists with:
- drafting pleadings and other key documents
- preparing files for examinations for discovery, including drafting affidavits of documents, preparing appropriate briefs, liaising with witnesses, organizing opposing party’s productions and summarizing productions
- managing discovery evidence, including preparing charts of undertakings, liaising with discovery witnesses to obtain answers to undertakings, and obtaining and summarizing opposing parties' answers to undertakings
- identifying and retaining experts
- preparing motion materials
- preparing files for mediations and pre-trials, including drafting of mediation and pre-trial memoranda
- trial preparation, including liaising with witnesses, briefing documents and preparing Evidence Act notices