Everett L. Bunnell, QC
Senior Partner
In 40 years of litigation experience, Everett Bunnell has been involved in a number of claims involving the oil and gas industry, ranging from environmental liability claims, pipeline/refinery contamination problems and drilling, production and processing issues.
Mr. Bunnell also has experience in product liability claims on behalf of insurers, as both defence counsel and subrogation counsel. Other insurance experience involves professional errors and omission claims and business interruption losses. As the chair of the aboriginal law practice group, Mr. Bunnell has been extensively involved in various environmental issues and disputes concerning claims in respect of land and water advanced by native groups in Alberta.
Mr. Bunnell was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 1988, and joined our Calgary office as a partner in January 2001.
Year of call
Nunavut 1999
North West Territories 1975
British Columbia 1974
Alberta 1968
Law school
LL.B., Queen's University, 1967
Education
Student, Jesus College, Oxford University, 1969
B.A., Carleton University, 1964
Selected client work
Matters in which Mr. Bunnell has acted include:
- A subrogation recovery of multi-million dollar losses to gas processing plant resulting from adjacent plant fire
- Defence of various product liability cases, including battery fire tubes, motorcycle tires, ill rubber roll coverings, electrical power relay switch, drilling blast joint, labour table steel stirrup
- Defence of various healthcare professionals' malpractice claims
- Representation of British Columbia in the Court of Appeal in Reference Case concerning the constitutionality of the Goods and Services Tax
- Defence of negligence claims against various other professional groups
- A multi-million dollar subrogation recovery for OSB mill losses resulting from a railway-caused forest fire
- Resolution of environmental claims resulting from a gold mine's sodium cyanide spill
- Defence of claims against a private highway maintenance contractor
- Defence of claims based on marine insurance policies
- Defence of life and disability claims
Publications
- “First Nation Challenge to Oilsands Leases Dismissed by Alberta Court of Appeal,” firm legal update, February 2011.
- “Carrier Sekani and the B.C. Utilities Commission,” firm legal update, November 2010.
Speaking engagements
- Legal Education Society of Alberta, various seminars
Rankings and recognitions
- Best Lawyers in Canada, 2011-2013 - Corporate and Commercial Litigation, Product Liability Law
- Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory, 2011-2012: Repeatedly Recommended in the area of Personal Injury
- Martindale Hubbel, Av rating peer review
Memberships and activities
- Canadian Bar Association
- Calgary Bar Association
- B.C. Bar Association
- NWT Bar Association
- Nunavut Bar Association
- Law Society of Alberta
- Bencher, Law Society of Alberta,1995 - 2004
- Past Chair, Law Society of Alberta, Conduct Committee
- Past Member, Law Society of Alberta, Executive Committee
- Law Society of Alberta, Rules of Court Committee, 2002 - 2009
- President, Legal Archives Society of Alberta
- Past sessional lecturer, University of Alberta, Faculty of Law, various courses
- Alberta Bar Admission Course, lecturer, various courses