We are a group of fierce advocates.

Jim Orr began his legal career as an articling student and lawyer at Stikeman Elliott in the litigation department headed by John Sopinka until his appointment to the Supreme Court of Canada. Jim then joined Fasken & Calvin where he had the good fortune to work with many of the country’s top commercial litigators. In 1992, along with seven other Fasken partners, he started Kelly Affleck Greene, one of Canada’s first commercial litigation boutiques.

For the past fifteen years, Jim’s practice has focused on class actions. He founded Kim Orr (now Kim Spencer McPhee), a plaintiff’s class action firm. While most of his work has been on the plaintiff’s side, Jim has been retained by large Canadian and international corporations to defend both competition and securities class actions. He also maintains a commercial law practice for select clients.

Legal Education

Dalhousie Law School (LL.B., 1981)

Admissions

Law Society of Ontario

Nova Scotia Barristers’ Society

Kyle Taylor is a founder and managing partner of Orr Taylor. He started the firm to provide exceptional representation for both plaintiffs and defendants in complex business litigation and class actions. Kyle is a uniquely experienced and dynamic litigator, having successfully represented businesses and class members alike in class actions, business litigation, antitrust and competition matters, and international disputes in both Canada and the United States.

Kyle is currently lead or co-lead counsel in an alleged $12 billion class action involving Amazon’s pricing practices, $10 billion class action involving price fixing of Bread, $2.75 billion class action involving antitrust violations in the market for Generic Drugs, $1 billion class action involving antitrust violations in the market for DRAM, and $250 million class action involving price fixing of Canned Tuna. In addition to his work for the plaintiff class, Kyle represents businesses involved in class actions and commercial litigation. For example, his recent matters for businesses include representing an international technology company as a defendant in a proposed class action alleging price fixing of Resistors, representing one of the world’s largest retailers in a nation-wide challenge to Canada’s class action settlement and opt-out regime, and representing a Canadian technology company in a significant theft of trade secrets litigation. Kyle’s clients include businesses located in Canada, the United States, and overseas.

Kyle was previously a lawyer in the New York office of the leading global litigation firm Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan. At Quinn Emanuel, Kyle represented the plaintiffs in antitrust litigation against the major U.S. freight railroads alleging price fixing of fuel surcharges, as well as in class actions against large banks for alleged price fixing of financial products. He also represented the bankruptcy trustee for a former financial services institution in pre-trial and trial litigation against a major accounting firm. Kyle also successfully defended businesses involved in high-stakes litigation, including a leading healthcare data company against monopolization claims, a major toy company against monopolization claims, a major Italian bank against fraud claims, and a European investor against insider trading claims.

Before entering private practice, Kyle served as a law clerk to the Honorable Joseph L. Tauro, of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts.  Kyle maintains his bar admissions in Ontario and New York.

Education

Cornell Law School (J.D., 2008)

University of Michigan (A.B., History and Philosophy, with Distinction, 2004)

Prior Affiliations

Affleck Greene McMurtry LLP (Partner, 2019-2020; Associate, 2016-2018)

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP (Associate, 2009-2016)

The Honorable Joseph L. Tauro, United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts (Law Clerk, 2008-2009)

Admissions

The State Bar of New York

United States District Court for the Southern District of New York

United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York

United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

Law Society of Ontario

Professional Activities

Member, American Bar Association

Member, The Advocates’ Society

Chair, Competition Litigation Committee, CBA Competition Law and Foreign Investment Review Section

Member, Canadian Bar Association

Member, Ontario Bar Association

Alexandra is a creative and tenacious advocate. She represents both plaintiffs and defendants in complex, high-stakes class actions involving competition, securities, and consumer protection matters.

Alexandra has appeared as counsel on dispositive motions, at trial, and on appeal before the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, Commercial List, and Court of Appeal for Ontario.

Prior to joining Orr Taylor, Alexandra began her legal career as a summer and articling student at Stikeman Elliott. Following her articles, Alexandra clerked for Justice Brown and former Associate Chief Justice Hoy of the Court of Appeal for Ontario. She then practiced commercial litigation at a leading litigation boutique, with a focus on complex commercial, shareholder, and securities disputes.

Alexandra received her law degree from Osgoode Hall Law School, where she earned prizes in her class actions, business law, commercial law, securities, tax, and legal ethics courses.

Education

Osgoode Hall Law School (J.D., 2017)

University of Toronto (Honours B.A., History and Philosophy, with High Distinction, 2014)

Prior Affiliations

Chernos Flaherty Svonkin LLP (Associate, 2019-2023)

Court of Appeal for Ontario (Law Clerk, 2018-2019)

Stikeman Elliott LLP (Summer and Articling Student, 2016-2018)

Admissions

Law Society of Ontario

Professional Activities

Member, The Advocates’ Society

Jordan Allison is an associate with Orr Taylor. Before joining the firm, Jordan articled and practiced as an associate at a national law firm, specializing in litigation and regulatory matters in the health industry. 

Jordan received her JD from the University of Ottawa, where she was an active member of her law school community. Jordan acted as a peer mentor for first-year law students and was an executive of the Tort Law Society, where she helped organize panel discussions, social events, and charity initiatives.

Before law school, Jordan completed a degree at the University of Ottawa and worked in labs researching linguistics, language development, and fear and anxiety.

Education

University of Ottawa (J.D., 2020)

University of Ottawa (Honours B.A., Psychology with a minor in Linguistics, 2016)

Prior Affiliations

Miller Thomson LLP (Associate, 2021-2022)

Admissions

Law Society of Ontario

Diana Amaral manages the operations of Orr Taylor. Diana has worked as a law clerk and legal assistant since 2003. She has assisted her lawyers at all stages of litigation and has experience filing materials with all levels of courts from the trial-level courts to the Supreme Court of Canada, and courts across Ontario and in several other provinces, including British Columbia, Alberta, and Saskatchewan.

Education

Centennial College (Diploma, 2003)

Prior Affiliations

Affleck Greene McMurtry LLP (Law Clerk and Legal Assistant, 2003-2020)

Professional Activities

Member, Institute of Law Clerks of Ontario

Volunteer, Lawyers Feed the Hungry

Jonathan Careen is an associate with Orr Taylor. His practice is focused on class actions, especially price-fixing conspiracies. His experience includes a variety of shareholder disputes and securities matters.

Jonathan received his law degree from the University of British Columbia, where he was awarded the Dean’s J.D. Entrance Scholarship. During his studies, Jonathan volunteered with the Law Students’ Legal Advice Program in East Vancouver, and worked at the Liu Institute for Global Issues where he researched natural resources and violent conflicts in developing countries.

Jonathan has a keen interest in emerging markets and technologies, particularly cryptocurrency.

Education

University of British Columbia (J.D., 2017)

University of British Columbia (B.A., Philosophy, 2014)

Admissions

Law Society of Ontario

Julia Kalinina is an associate with Orr Taylor LLP. Her practice is focused on litigating class actions in antitrust and competition. Before joining Orr Taylor in spring 2023, she articled at the Federal Court of Canada as a judicial clerk to the Honourable Justice Alan S. Diner, and practiced in trade and procurement law at the Department of Justice Canada.

Julia earned her J.D. from Osgoode Hall Law School, where she focused on media, privacy, and constitutional law. She won the Canadian Media Lawyers Association’s annual Freedom of Expression writing prize two years in a row (2019 and 2020) for research papers related to legal attempts at regulating online political advertising in the wake of the Cambridge Analytics revelations. She provided research assistance over two years to a professor in constitutional law, including contributing work to a successful appeal at the Supreme Court of Canada by the Coalition for Genetic Fairness in the Non-Discrimination Act Reference. She also volunteered at the Community Legal Aid Services Programme in the immigration law section, and contributed as a writer and editor to thecourt.ca, Osgoode Hall’s legal commentary blog focusing on decisions before the Supreme Court.

Prior to joining the legal profession, Julia worked as a journalist in Canada, Russia, and the UK, including in broadcast journalism with CBC Radio 1 in Canada and with ITV’s Good Morning Britain. She has also published stories in BuzzFeed News, Hazlitt, and The Atlantic.

Education

Osgoode Hall Law School (J.D., 2020)

University of British Columbia, Graduate School of Journalism (M.A., 2014)

York University (Specialized Honours B.A., Political Science with a minor in Economics, 2010)

Prior Affiliations

Department of Justice Canada (Legal Practitioner, 2021-2022)

The Honourable Justice Alan S. Diner, Federal Court of Canada (Law Clerk, 2020-2021)

Admissions

Law Society of Ontario

Pujan Modi’s practice is focused on competition class actions. He joined Orr Taylor in 2020. 

Pujan articled as a law clerk to five justices of the British Columbia Supreme Court in Vancouver after finishing his law degree at the University of British Columbia. As a law clerk, he took particular interest in class actions and litigation with a public law dimension. At law school, Pujan participated in the Wilson Moot, was a clinician at the International Justice and Human Rights Clinic, and took on various editing capacities with the UBC Law Review. 

Pujan has had a long-standing interest in industrial organization and the dynamics of competition, an interest which he explored through economics degrees from the University of Toronto and the London School of Economics. He developed his understanding of competition through various university courses, a dissertation during his master’s degree, and a directed research project at law school.

Education

University of British Columbia (J.D., 2019)

London School of Economics and Political Science (M.Sc., Economics and Philosophy, 2016)

University of Toronto (B.A., Economics and Ethics, Society, & Law, 2015)

Prior Affiliations

Supreme Court of British Columbia (Law Clerk, 2019-2020)

Admissions

Law Society of Ontario

Professional Activities

Member, The Advocates’ Society

Member, South Asian Bar Association of Toronto

Alexander is an associate with Orr Taylor. His practice is focused on complex, high-stakes class actions involving competition, securities, and consumer protection matters.

Before joining the firm, Alexander articled and practiced at another leading Toronto boutique litigation firm, where he worked on high value commercial litigation and class action matters. Alexander has appeared as counsel before the Ontario Superior Court of Justice and Federal Court of Appeal.

Alexander received his degree from Osgoode Hall Law School, where he won the Dean’s Gold Key for Leadership, class prizes in professionalism, and course prizes in property law and advanced Civil Procedure. Alexander was deeply involved with student life at Osgoode Hall, where he served as the President of Osgoode’s student government and was a student in Osgoode’s mediation clinic, where he mediated disputes and worked with the Jane and Finch Boys and Girls Club to develop a conflict resolution training program. Alexander was an active participant in oral advocacy competitions at Osgoode, where he was selected as an oralist in the Warren A. Winkler Class Actions moot and a semi-finalist in the Denton’s Cup.

Education

Osgoode Hall Law School (J.D., 2022)

University of Toronto (Honours B.Sc., Research Psychology, with High Distinction, 2018)

Prior Affiliations

Kim Spencer McPhee Barristers P.C. (Associate, 2023-2024; Articling Student, 2022-2023)

Admissions

Law Society of Ontario

Professional Activities

Member, The Advocates’ Society