Billington Barristers: The Firm

When it comes to selecting litigation counsel, experience matters.

Billington Barristers is a boutique litigation law firm located in the heart of Calgary. The firm provides representation in complex litigation cases, acting for clients throughout Canada and internationally. As a boutique, the firm often acts on referrals from other lawyers.

Billington Barristers represents individual and corporate litigants, and both plaintiffs and defendants. The firm's practice also includes acting as court appointed Independent Supervising Solicitor in specialized injunction matters. Billington Barristers is also retained by other law firms to assist in complex litigation. You can trust your civil litigation needs to Billington Barristers.

The main practice areas of Billington Barristers include:

• Intellectual Property Litigation

  Including enforcement of copyright, patents, trade marks and trade secrets protected by confidentiality agreements. Rick Billington has acted for authors, inventors, software developers and businesses whose market value is closely linked to their ability to safeguard their intellectual property rights.
   

• Anton Piller Orders and Mareva Injunctions

  These are recognized as extraordinary pre–trial remedies for the preservation of evidence and assets. This experience includes acting for plaintiffs in obtaining such orders, and for defendants in responding to and moving to overturn them. Both the Court of Queen's Bench of Alberta and the Federal Court have appointed Richard N. Billington, Q.C. as Independent Supervising Solicitor in significant cases involving fraud and breach of software copyright. The firm is particularly experienced in files involving the seizure, preservation and analysis of large volumes of electronic information.
  

• Regulatory Representation

  Our firm is well experienced in the realm of representing clients in the regulatory setting.  Our experience includes providing representation before self-governing professions in respect to the prosecution of charges against members, advocating before regulatory tribunals in matters of utility governance and in acting for clients in energy sector matters.  We provide advice to regulatory bodies and representation to persons appearing before tribunals and boards.  We are also experienced in applications for Judicial Review, where decisions of such proceedings are challenged in the Court.
   

• Injunctions

  Acting for plaintiffs and defendants, whether the application is to require a party to perform an obligation or to prevent a wrong from being done, Billington Barristers have extensive experience to assist you.
   

• Insolvency and Restructuring (Corporate)

  Billington Barristers act for financial institutions, trustees–in–bankruptcy, monitors, insolvent corporations, as well as secured and unsecured creditors. Rick Billington has significant professional experience in proceedings under both the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act and the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act.
   

• Dispute Resolution – Litigation, Arbitration and Mediation

  Including breach of fiduciary obligations, Oil & Gas industry disputes, shareholder oppression actions and enforcement of security for financial institutions. Billington Barristers provide representation before the Court, at administrative tribunals and in arbitration proceedings. Richard Billington, Q.C. is also available to serve as arbitrator or mediator in Oil & Gas matters and in corporate or commercial disputes.
   

• General Civil Litigation

  Including defamation, wrongful dismissal (acting for either the employer or employee), class actions, breach of trust and contempt proceedings.