Susan Gunter, partner since 2002 at Dutton Brock LLP, holds an LLM in Civil Litigation (Osgoode), an LLB (UNB), and was called to the Ontario bar in 1996. She defends corporations and insurers in professional and products liability, casualty and property claims, and commercial litigation. She is recognized in The Best Lawyers in Canada (Products Liability, Insurance, Personal Injury, Professional Malpractice and ADR) and in The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory as Most Frequently Recommended Personal Injury - Represents Defendants. She is a peer-selected member of Litigation Counsel of America, International Association of Defense Counsel, Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel, and Association of Defense and Trial Attorneys. She served as President of Canadian Defence Lawyers, and Director of The Advocates' Society, DRI – Association of Lawyers Defending Business, and Canadian Defence Lawyers Foundation. She Chairs the CDL Public Policy Secretariat. Susan received the Ontario Bar Association’s Joel Kuchar Award for Professionalism and Civility, the DRI Fred H. Sievert Award for Outstanding Defense Bar Leadership, the CDL Philippa G. Samworth Award for the Advancement of Women in the Legal Profession and was the 2025 Ontario Trial Lawyers’ Distinguished Trial Lawyer.
