Pat Robinson joined Field Law in 2023 and is a partner with the firm. Prior to Field Law, he was a partner at a litigation boutique practicing corporate commercial litigation for over 15 years.

Pat is an assertive counsel with a wide array of practice areas, often acting for both public companies and individuals in complex shareholder disputes, injunctions, CCAA/insolvency, and fraud recovery from Ponzi schemes. A review of his impressive representative work below will further illustrate the broad experience in your decision to retain counsel.

Pat was a researcher for the Asper Chair of International Business and Trade Law, as well as the Legal Research Institute of Manitoba throughout 2004. He served as law clerk for the Honourable Justice Eleanor R. Dawson at the Federal Court, the Competition Tribunal, and the Court Martial Appeal Court of Canada until 2007.

Pat has attended at all levels of Court in Alberta, the Federal Court, the Federal Court of Appeal, and the Tax Court of Canada. He has acted in complex matters before numerous regulatory bodies, such as the Alberta Securities Commission, IIROC, the Mutual Fund Dealers Association, the Law Society of Alberta, and the Alberta Energy Regulator.

Prior to entering the practice of law, Pat served three years in the Canadian Armed Forces infantry, where he also boxed and played the bagpipes.

Regularly Acts: 

• For shareholders in private company disputes, including in complex oppression actions.
• In bankruptcy and insolvency matters, including CCAA, often in adverse positions to the Trustee, Receiver or Monitor.
• Against financial advisors and banks for breach of fiduciary duty and failing to provide a suitable investment portfolio for their clients.
• In complex construction disputes.
• In complex fraud and asset recovery actions, often involving the Alberta Securities Commission.
• In alternative dispute resolution matters, before both Judges, mediators and private arbitrators.
• In wrongful dismissal matters and reviewing severance packages for terminated employees.
• In procedural disputes, requiring special applications for summary judgment, security for costs, amendments, compelling undertakings, and other applications to ensure litigation moves ahead fast and economically.

Recognitions and Rankings

• Donald F. Sim Q.C. Memorial Prize, 2008 (Chosen by the Federal Court of Appeal for the top paper written by a law clerk in 2006–2007)
• Dean’s Honour List, 3rd year Law, 2005
• John B. Haig, Q.C. Memorial Award for Advanced Legal Research, 2005
• D.A. Thompson Q.C. Memorial Award, International Business Law, 2005
• Dean’s Honour List, 2nd year Law, 2004
• Isaac Pitblado Award for Academic Excellence in Law, 2004
• Gordon F. Henderson/SOCAN Copyright Competition finalist, 2004
• D.A. Thompson Q.C. Memorial Award, Advanced Intellectual Property, 2004
• Robson Hall Advocacy Distinction, 2004
• Finalist at the Solomon Greenberg Moot Competition, 2004 (Manitoba)
• Finalist at the Judge Carrigan International Moot Competition, 2004 (North Dakota)
• D.A. Thompson Q.C. Memorial Award for Tort Law, 2003
• Lakehead University Top Student in Economics, 2002
• Ronald J. Whistle Scholarship in Economics, 2001
• Lakehead University Dean’s Honours in Economics, 1999¬2002 inclusive
• Lakehead University Scholar Award, 2000

Outside the Office

In his spare time, Pat collects and trades rare science fiction and fantasy art and regularly travels to art conventions.  He is the owner and curator of Canada’s largest science fiction and fantasy art collection. His art collection has been featured in Avenue Magazine, Amazing Stories Magazine, Unabashed Magazine, the Space Channel and on the Sci-Fi and Fantasy Network.

Pat has presented numerous times on the subject of science fiction art, including at the World Science Fiction Convention in Dublin in 2019.