Committee

The Class Proceedings Committee is responsible for making decisions about whether applicants will receive support from the fund. Meet its members.

The Law Foundation of Ontario appoints one member of the Class Proceedings Committee and the Attorney General also appoints one member. Three members are appointed jointly by the Law Foundation and the Attorney General.

Danielle Marks***

Partner and Co-Chair of the Civil Litigation practice group, SV Law

Elizabeth Bowker***

Partner, Stieber Berlach LLP

Eric S. Block**

Partner, Ross Nasseri LLP

Eric S. Block joined the Class Proceedings Committee in December...

Jordan Goldblatt****

Managing Partner, Adair Goldblatt Bieber LLP

Jordan Goldblatt is a founding and Managing Partner at Adair Goldblatt...

Nadia Campion***

Chair, Class Proceedings Committee & Commercial Litigator/Partner, Lax O’Sullivan Lisus Gottlieb

Nadia Campion joined the Class Proceedings Committee in July 2023....

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Danielle Marks***

Position: Partner and Co-Chair of the Civil Litigation practice group, SV Law
Categories: Class Proceedings Committee
Pronouns: she/her
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Elizabeth Bowker***

Position: Partner, Stieber Berlach LLP
Categories: Class Proceedings Committee
Pronouns: she/her
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Eric S. Block**

Position: Partner, Ross Nasseri LLP
Categories: Class Proceedings Committee
Pronouns: he/him

Eric S. Block joined the Class Proceedings Committee in December 2025.

Eric is a partner at Ross Nasseri LLP. An experienced trial lawyer, Eric focuses on high stakes, complex commercial litigation, fraud, cross-border litigation, internal investigations, real estate litigation, trade secret litigation, environmental litigation, product liability, private wealth litigation, and defamation. Eric is also a class actions expert. He has represented defence and plaintiff sides, acting in agricultural, product liability, medical devices, securities, employment spaces, and constitutional spaces.

Prior to joining Ross Nasseri LLP, Eric was a partner in the Toronto Litigation Group of McCarthy Tétrault LLP where he was awarded the mentor of the year and the legacy mentor award. Before this, Eric was a litigator at Paul, Weiss in New York where he worked on many precedent-setting litigations.

Eric has written for the Wall Street Journal and Jerusalem Post, among other publications. He co-authored the book Emergency Law in Canada: Commentary and Legislation. Eric received a degree in jurisprudence from Oxford University in 1997 and an LLM from the University of Chicago Law School in 1998. He was called to the Ontario Bar in 2003.

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Jordan Goldblatt****

Position: Managing Partner, Adair Goldblatt Bieber LLP
Categories: Class Proceedings Committee
Pronouns: he/him

Jordan Goldblatt is a founding and Managing Partner at Adair Goldblatt Bieber LLP. He is consistently recognized for his advocacy across various practice areas, including general commercial, insolvency, product liability, professional responsibility, administrative, and public law litigation. He has acted for clients before judges, juries, and arbitrators throughout Ontario. He represents licensed professionals, professional associations, insurance companies, and both private and public corporations. Among many areas, Jordan has a robust class proceedings practice, as defence counsel and as class counsel.

Jordan has presented at various conferences organized by the Law Society of Ontario, the Advocates Society, the Canadian Bar Association, and the Ontario Bar Association. Jordan has taught trial advocacy at Osgoode Hall’s Intensive Trial Advocacy Workshop.

Jordan is a Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America, an invite-only trial advocacy society comprising less than one-half of one percent of American lawyers. He received a LLB from Osgoode Hall Law School and was called to the Ontario Bar in 2005. Prior to co-founding Adair Goldblatt Bieber LLP, Jordan practiced at Lenczner Slaght LLP and Goldblatt Partners LLP.

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Nadia Campion***

Position: Chair, Class Proceedings Committee & Commercial Litigator/Partner, Lax O’Sullivan Lisus Gottlieb
Categories: Class Proceedings Committee
Pronouns: she/her

Nadia Campion joined the Class Proceedings Committee in July 2023.

Nadia is a Commercial Litigator/Partner at Lax O’Sullivan Lisus Gottlieb. Her civil litigation practice includes class actions, complex commercial disputes, shareholder oppression applications, director and officer liability, estates matters, and professional liability. Nadia brings extensive litigation experience, having acted as counsel in trials, arbitrations, and administrative hearings. She has appeared repeatedly before the Superior Court of Justice and the Ontario Court of Appeal, and the Ontario Securities Commission.

Nadia is a frequent speaker, moderator, and writer for various organizations and media publications, including the Advocates Society, Association des juristes d’expression française de l’Ontario, and the Trial Lawyers Association. She is also a former member of the Ontario Bar Association’s executive committees for class actions and civil litigation. In 2019, Nadia was ranked by Lexpert and by Benchmark Litigation as one of Canada’s leading lawyers under the age of 40. She has since been ranked by Lexpert and Benmark as one of the leading 500 lawyers in Canada and top 100 Women in Litigation in Canada. She is also recognized in Chambers Canada and Best Lawyers Annual Guide for class actions, securities, professional liability, and corporate-commercial litigation.

Nadia received a BA from McGill University, JD from Michigan State University, and LLB from the University of Ottawa. She was called to the Ontario Bar in 2006. She is fluent in French.

 

**Appointed by the Attorney General of Ontario
***Appointed by the Attorney General of Ontario & The Law Foundation of Ontario
****Appointed by The Law Foundation of Ontario

Class Proceedings Fund webpages

Class Proceedings Fund

The Class Proceedings Fund provides financial support to approved class action plaintiffs for legal disbursements and indemnifies plaintiffs for costs that may be awarded against them in funded proceedings.

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Application process

Details on the process and documents needed to apply to the Class Proceedings Fund.

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The Fund’s entitlement to a levy and how it is calculated

If a case is awarded funding, a levy in favour of the Class Proceedings Fund (the “Fund”) is payable after the case is either settled or adjudicated in favour of the class. Regulation 771/92 sets out the way in which the Fund’s levy is calculated.

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Meeting dates

The Class Proceedings Committee’s list of scheduled meeting dates. Application hearings are scheduled after a full application has been received.

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Reports & resources

The Class Proceedings Fund reports financial information and activities annually within the Foundation’s annual report. Find these reports, as well as other resources, here.

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Committee

The Class Proceedings Committee is responsible for making decisions about whether applicants will receive support from the fund. Meet its members.

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