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Tamela J. Coates LL.B., Managing Partner, Calgary

Tamela (Tammy) Coates is Managing Partner of the Calgary office of Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP ("FMC"). Tammy was called to the Bar in 1989 and has spent her career with FMC (Calgary). She has practised in the areas of commercial litigation and dispute resolution, with a focus on energy, environmental and IP disputes.

She has appeared before all levels of the Alberta Courts, as well as the B.C. Supreme Court and the Federal Court of Canada. She is frequently called upon to speak and present on topics related to advocacy, principled negotiation and mediation, and litigation practice (both within the firm and to other members of the Bar). She also routinely provides counsel to charities on a volunteer basis.

Tammy has extensive experience acting as counsel to numerous major energy companies with respect to landowner claims regarding water, soil, vegetation, and air contamination, including media and reputation management. She has also been retained to remedy issues regarding freehold leases, purchase and sale, operating, pooling, split title, and production disputes in addition to a variety of commercial disputes in insolvency situations, patent claims and misappropriation of intellectual property.

Tammy has acted as counsel to a major Canadian telecommunications company in a variety of commercial, corporate, and telecommunications related disputes, including corporate shareholding disclosure, facility and network placement, advertising and other publications, and class actions. She has also acted as counsel to an international wind development company and local developer in a commercial sale dispute and corollary dispute regarding connection rights to the provincial power grid.

Tammy has been recommended by Chambers Global: The Guide to the World's Leading Lawyers for Business 2012 as a leading lawyer in the area of Dispute Resolution: Alberta. She was also selected as one of Calgary’s "Top 40 Under 40" for 2004/2005 by Calgary Inc. Magazine. She has authored "Commercial Arbitration and the Canadian Justice System: Recent Decisions of the Supreme Court of Canada", GAR Arbitration Review of the Americas 2012, November 2011.

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Through the years, Tammy has represented clients in a wide variety of commercial disputes. Currently, her practice focuses on clients in the energy, telecommunications, and financial sectors regarding complex claims involving environmental, commercial, and intellectual property issues, including:

Representative Work

Numerous individual engagements as counsel to major energy companies with respect to landowner claims regarding water, soil, vegetation, and air contamination, including media and reputation management

Numerous engagements as counsel to several major energy companies regarding freehold leases, purchase and sale, operating, pooling, split title, and production disputes

Counsel to a major Canadian telecommunications company in a variety of commercial, corporate, and telecommunications related disputes, including corporate shareholding disclosure, facility and network placement, advertising and other publications, and class actions

Multiple engagements as counsel to energy and financial companies regarding a variety of commercial disputes in insolvency situations

Counsel to a major international drilling and servicing company with respect to patent claims and misappropriation of intellectual property

Publications

"Commercial Arbitration and the Canadian Justice System: Recent Decisions of the Supreme Court of Canada", GAR Arbitration Review of the Americas 2012, November 2011

Teaching Roles

Guest instructor and/or Team Leader in Trial Advocacy for the University of Calgary, College of Law (for students)

Guest instructor in Trial Advocacy for the Legal Education Society of Alberta (for lawyers).

Prior Speaking Engagements

October, 2009 - Panelist and Speaker on the issue of ADR in Intellectual Property and Information Technology Cases at the ADR Institute of Canada, Inc. Conference: Full Spectum ADR From Local Workplace to International Marketplace

November, 2007 - "You Can't Always Get What You Want, But Sometimes You Get What You Need" presented to the Women in Leadership Conference held in Calgary

November, 2005 - Mold Conference 2005 - Managing the Art, Science and Outrage Associated with Mold in Buildings: presented on the topic of "Mold: Legal Risks and Liabilities"

December, 2003 - Co-Chair of Insight's "Hazardous Building Materials Forum" and presented on the topic of "Hazardous Building Materials Lawsuits"