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Steve’s practice focuses on professional liability, insurance and commercial litigation. He has extensive experience in advising both insurers and insureds about coverage issues and has had a number of reported cases in that field. He has also acted as a mediator and as an arbitrator in various types of civil disputes, principally in the areas of insurance and commercial law. As well, he has acted as counsel in disciplinary proceedings. Steve is a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, He is certified by the Law Society as a Specialist in Civil Litigation. He has been selected for inclusion among The Best Lawyers in Canada in Insurance Law and Malpractice Law has been “Repeatedly Recommended” as a Leading Practitioner in the field of “Litigation-Commercial Insurance” by LEXPERT. In 2014, 2017 and 2019, Best Lawyers in Canada named Steve the Lawyer of the Year in the area of Insurance Law in Ottawa. Since 2007, Steve has been a member of the Ontario Civil Rules Committee, which is responsible for the Rules of Civil Procedure. In 2013 and again in 2018, he was a member of a subcommittee which made recommendations to the Civil Rules Committee regarding the discount rate for future pecuniary damages (Rule 53.09). Those recommendations have since been enacted. He also served as a member of another subcommittee that considered the issue of whether medical examinations in a litigation context should be recorded. For five years, Steve was the Ottawa Senior Instructor in Civil Litigation for the Law Society of Upper Canada’s Bar Admission Course. He also taught Insurance Law and Trial Advocacy at uOttawa’s law school for several years. He was called to the Bar of Ontario in 1980.
Justice Jaye Hooper was born and raised in Windsor, Ontario. After completing her undergraduate degree in International Relations, she obtained her Bachelor of Laws from the University of Windsor. Throughout her time at Windsor Law, she was involved with Community Legal Aid, becoming its Director of Finance in her final year. She was called to the Bar of Ontario in 2001. Justice Hooper spent most of her career at a boutique Ottawa litigation firm before starting her
own firm, Hooper Litigation, in 2015. She has represented both plaintiffs and defendants across a broad spectrum of litigation matters, including personal injury, employment, professional negligence, commercial, and construction law. She has acted as trial and appellate counsel at the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, the Ontario Court of Appeal, and the Supreme Court of Canada.
In addition to her practice, Justice Hooper has played an active role in Ontario's legal community. She is a past president of the County of Carleton Law Association and past chair of the Federation of Ontario Law Associations. She has been a frequent speaker at various legal conferences. In 2021, she was a contributor to the book, Autonomous Vehicles: Self-Driving Cars and the Law of Canada. Justice Hooper enjoys writing, spending time at the family cottage, and traveling. She and her husband, Paul, are very proud of their four exceptional children.
Joseph Obagi is a partner with the Ottawa law firm of Connolly Obagi LLP, which he founded together with Thomas P. Connolly in 2008 with the purpose of focusing their respective practices on personal injury law, medical malpractice and disability law. Joseph is a graduate of York University's Osgoode Hall Law School and was called to the Ontario Bar in 1995. In 2006, he was certified by the Law Society of Upper Canada as a Specialist in Civil Litigation. He practices primarily in the Superior Court of Justice and the Court of Appeal for Ontario, although he has also acted as lead counsel in arbitration and administrative proceedings. Joseph's outstanding contribution as a litigator earned him the Regional Senior Justice Award in 2004, an award sponsored and presented by the County of Carleton Law Association. He was the award's inaugural recipient. Joseph has been a guest lecturer at numerous CLE conferences, including those hosted by the National Judicial Institute, the Law Society of Ontario, the Advocates’ Society and the Ontario Trial Lawyers’ Association. He was also a guest lecturer for the Law Society's Special Lectures Series on Personal Injury Law. In 2017, Joseph was awarded the Jerusalem Cross by the Roman Catholic Greek-Melchite Bishop in Canada.
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