Akiva Stern

Akiva is an associate in McCarthy Tétrault’s litigation group in Toronto. He has a broad litigation practice, with an emphasis on complex corporate and commercial litigation, finance and accounting litigation, competition/antitrust litigation, class actions, insurance litigation, and professional negligence. Akiva has represented individuals, corporations and leading financial institutions in complex, high-stake disputes. He has appeared before the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, the Toronto Commercial List, the Ontario Court of Appeal, the Federal Court, the Federal Court of Appeal, and the Health Professions Appeal and Review Board.

He recently authored, Moot: How to Win in Fake Court and Other Valuable Lessons in Legal Rhetoric, 1st ed (Toronto: LexisNexis, 2020), a textbook on mooting and legal rhetoric used in Canadian law schools. Akiva teaches introductory and advanced mooting and advocacy skills courses at the Lincoln Alexander School of Law, Toronto Metropolitan University, and frequently guest lectures at the Faculty of Law, University of Windsor.

He obtained his Bachelor of Human Resource Management (Honours) from York University as well as a Master of Industrial Relations and Human Resources from the University of Toronto. Akiva received his Juris Doctor and Master of Business Administration from the University of Windsor in 2018.

He was called to the Ontario bar in 2019. He is a member of the Law Society of Ontario, the Ontario Bar Association and the Canadian Bar Association.